Greece
Musik Der Pontos-Griechen (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Gatefold sleeve. Bookle included.
The Museum für Völkerkunde in West Berlin ran one of the best ethnographic LP series of the seventies and eighties, edited by Artur Simon with a scholar's booklet in every sleeve, and this volume is devoted to the Pontic Greeks: the community expelled from the Black Sea coast of Turkey in 1923 and resettled in Macedonia, who kept a musical culture based on the kemençe, the bottle-shaped three-string fiddle bowed with a furious, buzzing double-stop technique unlike anything else in Greece.
Pontic music is fast, modal, relentless, built for circle dances that go on for hours, and the museum recordings catch it in village context rather than in a studio. Berlin pressing with full documentation. Among the least recorded regional musics in Europe, and among the most intense.
Release notes
Track A1 recorded on 8 September 1972 at Kilkis, at the musician's home. Track A2 recorded on 19 October 1972 at Rehau / Hof, Germany, in the musician's apartment. Track A3 recorded on 15 September 1972 at Arghiroupolis / Drama, in the musician's home. Track A4 recorded on 23 September 1972 at Kilkis, in the muusician's home (brother of the musician on track A1). Track A5 recorded on 20 August 1973, in front of the musician's house. Track A6 recorded on 1 September 1973 in Kavala, in the rooms…
| Musik Der Pontos-Griechen (Nordgriechenland) = Music Of the Pontic Greeks (Northern Greece) | |||
| A1 | Serenitsa = Şerenitsa | 2:23 | |
| A2 | Epi Trapezios | 2:35 | |
| A3 | Omal Diplo | 4:05 | |
| A4 | Serra | 4:13 | |
| A5 | Tik | 2:16 | |
| A6 | Tik Diplo | 5:21 | |
| B1 | Serra | 1:40 | |
| B2 | Kiourtsias = Kürçias | 2:40 | |
| B3 | Dipat | 1:55 | |
| B4 | Makrys Skopos | 2:45 | |
| B5 | Kotsari = Koçari | 4:10 | |
| B6 | Epi Trapezios | 2:13 | |
| B7 | Epi Trapezios | 3:08 | |
- Jürgen Spohn
- Cover, Design [Cover Design]
- A
- Lacquer Cut By
- Konrad Zwingmann
- Layout, Other [Map]
- Richard G. Campbell
- Liner Notes [English Translation]
- Colette Pfeiffer
- Liner Notes [French Translation]
- Greece
- Music By
- Ursula Ahrens
- Photography By [Photos]
- Christian Ahrens
- Recorded By, Liner Notes [Commentary And Musical Transcriptions]
- Artur Simon
- Supervised By [Editor]
