to melt

Adio Kerida singing Yasmin Levy (with greek subs)
Video : scenes from Issiz Adam (Alone) 2008

Chilly Gonzales: The Köln Concert

Not Keith Jarrett, but Chilly Gonzales.

I was there yesterday (sorry for the bad video):

Here from some other guys who was yesterday also there:

Another view:

More about Chilly Gonzales here >>

Or a music video of him “Never Stop”

XMAS SWAGGER by Princess Superstar

Happy Holidays and love from Princess Superstar!

Concert at Rudolfplatz, “NIL”

“NIL” August 21, 2011 at Rudolfplatz, Cologne, a photo by delta-kapa on Flickr.

Concert at Rudolfplatz “Locas in love”

Stefanie Schrank, “Locas in love” August 21, 2011 in Cologne,
a photo by delta-kapa on Flickr.

Και στην ειρήνη

Δε φτάνει μόνο να κερδίζεις στο πόλεμο,
χρειάζεται να κερδίζεις και στην ειρήνη.

Nikos Skalkottas

An amazing presentation of Skalkottas’s music: “Five Greek Dances”
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Silas Huff conducting.

No. 1 Epirotikos (from the northwest Greek region of Epiros and south Albania)

No. 2 Kretikos (from the Island Crete)

No. 3 Tsamikos
The dance follows a strict and slow tempo not emphasising on the steps, but more on the “attitude, style and grace” of the dancer. The dancers hold each other from each other’s hands, bent 90 degrees upwards at the elbows. It takes a sturdy hand, especially if you are supporting the first or last person of the line (or circle) who will lean on you to perform high acrobatic leaps …
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No. 4 Arkadikos (from Arcadia)
Arcadia?

No. 5 Kleftikos
Klephts (Greek: κλέφτης, which originally meant just “brigand”) were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. They were the descendants of Greeks who retreated into the mountains during the fifteenth century in order to avoid Ottoman oppression. They carried on a continuous war against Ottoman rule and remained active as brigands until the nineteenth century.
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Dedicated to Aris Radiopoulos, a musician who I knew from Thessaloniki and meat again coincidentally in the underground in Düsseldorf. I discover some two years after I already lived in the city that he was living there studying music and investigating his PhD over the rebetiko music. (He made me even a member of the Nikos Skalkottas club of Düsseldorf “the friends of Nikos Skalkottas’s music society” I helped him to make the  logo and the stamp of the club).

Cry heavens and stars

«Κλάψτε ουρανοί κι αστέρια» means “cry heavens and stars”
The song is from 1968. Singer is Grigoris Mpithikotsis and the music from Stavros Xarchakos.

In the video are scenes from a Greek movie from 1969. The protagonist (Nikos Kourkoulos) burns his own property. The song in the film is an other:  It’s raining fire on my way («βρέχει φωτιά στη στράτα μου»)

2011

Eric B And Rakim – Paid In Full (Seven Minutes Of Madness The Coldcut Remix)

Cologne 11.11.2010

Σήμερα άρχησε το καρναβάλι στην Κολωνία. Το τραγούδι αυτό όμως το λένε όταν τελειώνει. Κι αυτό στην Κολωνία δεν είναι η Καθαρή Δευτέρα αλλά τρείς μέρες μέσα στη Σαρακοστή  τη Τετάρτη μετά από την Καθαρή Δευτέρα.

(stuff from south Africa)