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Thread #143322   Message #3307999
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
13-Feb-12 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: A brief rebetika discography
Subject: RE: A brief rebetika discography
One of the world's coolest musical traditions. I speak as one who has loved the singing of Marika Papagika since first hearing it on a 78 some 30 years back. with mysterious violin and cymboolom twisting and twining in the background.

If you have never heard Rebetika aka Rembetika—particularly the extraordinary sounds of the style as first recorded between the 1920s and 1940s—that was a Golden Age for this music too as for so much music the world over—treat yourself. You may well find it's an addiction.

Bob