Bouzouki and Greece

  

Vaggelis Korakakis
Where the wind goes out
1996

Tracks:

01. Memory and Sorrow (Vaggelis Korakakis) Ανάμνηση και πίκρα
02. Where the wind goes out (Gerasimos Andreatos)
03. The fate takes in early (Hara Pomoni)
04. The streets the doors (Gerasimos Andreatos)
05. Dawn me nights (Vaggelis Korakakis)
06. Tilt my eyes on earth (Hara Pomoni)
07. The Palioskaro (Vaggelis Korakakis)
08. Tangled confused (Hara Pomoni)
09. A glass drugs (Gerasimos Andreatos)
10. Who will extinguish the fire (Hara Pomoni)
11. You wont (Gerasimos Andreatos)
12. Night at my house To 'Rtheis (Niki Tsaireli)

Lyrics & Music: 

Vaggelis Korakakis

Singers:

Vaggelis Korakakis
Hara Pomoni
Gerasimos Andreatos
Niki Tsaireli

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Vaggelis Korakakis born in 1961 in Kaisariani.

His first contact with the bouzouki came at age 9 years old, across from where his family lived was a carpenter who was making and musical instruments. As characterized and says he: "I fell in love with a young child from the optical bouzouki! And the only thing I saw ... It was a great desire to get my bouzouki. Eventually my father got a Bouzouki from Omonia. After a Over the years, I learned on this bouzouki. "
The first bouzouki, stringed, was acquired at the age of 11 years.
The first album of Vaggelis Korakakis coming in 1985. This is the result of his meeting with lyricist Samartzi Tasos, who took the initiative and went to the Apostle Kaldara to get recommendations. So with the encouragement of the lyrics was released by the company LYRA, the album "In camps and ships", in which the Korakakis put music to 3 songs of Tassos Samartzi. The total of 12 songs on the album ermnineftikan by Kostas Antonopoulos. In 1988, on a proposal from the producer of LYRA, Aggelos Sfakianakis actually his first solo album titled, "The Lords".
In 1992 comes the "bouzouki with compass," and in 1993 the "Laurion" by the independent company LYRA, and they were the first step to becoming a Korakakis "considerable power", declared the producers Alex and Dimitri Vaki.

Βαγγέλης Κορακάκης - wiki

Oikeia sounds from the music scene of postwar folk song is the first impression associatively bring his songs V. Korakaki. Basismena the archetypal structures of Greek folk song without findings or innovations, the songs of this disc extending to the present day producing a musical style that has been abandoned by most composers before a couple decades. In this aesthetic effect, except for the melodies, orchestration helps the consistent and interpretative dimension Andreatou and Pomonis, and his voice is reminiscent due Korakaki timbres of M.Bamvakari on executions. Without having to present something special or extraordinary, this version keeps a level and I think fans will like kind. The CD accompanied by 16/selido elegant inlay-cover booklet with lyrics and reporting in rates.

Reviewed by: Nikos Dionysopoulos

Ανάμνηση και πίκρα

Φάληρο και Ελευσίνα/Πέραμα Σκαραμαγκά
επηγαίναμε για μπάνιο/όταν είμαστε παιδιά.
Τρώγαμε το μαριδάκι/απ' τα καθαρά νερά
δεν υπήρχανε φουγάρα/υπονόμοι και λοιπά.

Τώρα Αθήνα όλοι σε βρίζουν
δε σ' αγαπάνε και σε μισούν
γίνονται ανάμνηση οι ομορφιές σου
που τις γκρεμίζουν και ξεψυχούν

Το μικρό μπακαλικάκι/η ταβέρνα στη γωνιά
κι ο μανάβης με τη σούστα/γύριζε στη γειτονιά.
Τα βραδάκια οι μεγάλοι/τάβλι και κουτσομπολιά
κι εμείς τρέχαμε σαν ταύροι/μες στην τόση ξεγνοιασιά

Τώρα Αθήνα όλοι σε βρίζουν
δε σ' αγαπάνε και σε μισούν
γίνονται ανάμνηση οι ομορφιές σου
που τις γκρεμίζουν και ξεψυχούν

Τώρα ανάμνηση και πίκρα/νοσταλγία και οργή
όμως πουθενά δε βρήκα/της Αθήνας τη ζωή
Κρύβει τόσο μεγαλείο/κι αν πληγώνεται γελά
έχει ακόμα τόσες χάρες/και τον κόσμο κυβερνά

Memory and sorrow

Faliro and Eleusis, Perama Scaramanga (seashore outskirts of Athens)
we were going for swimming / when we are children.
and ate little smelts / from those clean waters
there were no stacks /or sewers and so on.

Now everyone  swears Athens
they don't love you anymore-they hate you
your  beauties  are just  remembrances
that they drag down and they die out .

The small shop / tavern on the corner
And the grocer with the clasp / going around the neighborhood.
in the evenings the older ones /with  backgammon and gossip
and we ran like bulls / so carefree

Now everyone  swears  Athens
they don't love you anymore-they hate you
your  beauties  are just  remembrances
that they drag down and they die out .

Now memories and bitterness / nostalgia and anger
but I didn't find anywhere / that life of Athens
that hides such a greatness  / even laughs  when it  hurts
with so many favors still / rules the world.

translation: Vasilis 

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♫ Ζήτω η  Ελλάδα ... long live Greece ... ♫

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