Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969) - Fred Kramer (Souma Records) (RIAFC100) by RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY published on 2022-11-17T19:34:51Z "Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969)” by Souma Records is the first part of a selection of Greek and Turkish tsiftetéli – or çiftetelli – songs and instrumentals, some in Greek Rebetiko and Laikó style, others in the oriental folk tradition of Greece and Asia Minor led by Roma musicians. For Greeks dancing tsiftetéli is a social thing, sometimes performed by couples. During the 60s and 70s in Greece and the US, live Laikó bands and oriental ensembles were often accompanied by a belly dancer, although this was not the case when the style first crept into the Greek repertoire when the repatriated musicians from Asia Minor expressed their pain and loss through this music. Mainly during the 60s the gloomy lyrics disappeared from the tsiftetéli and it morphed into a beguiling dance. Modern belly dancers hardly ever dance to tsiftetéli anymore but prefer instead the typical dance routines (raks sharqi) from the Middle East. The magic of tsiftetéli lies within its hypnotic grooves, intoxicating melodic scales and the extreme musicianship of the performers. The term tsiftetéli derives from the turkish word çifte-telli, which means ‘double-stringed’ (diplóchordo in Greek) and refers to an authentic violin technique (cfr tracks 4,11,16 & 17) of running two strings through the same nut slot of the instrument creating tautophony (two strings playing at the same pitch) or tuning them an octave apart. This spaced-out effect generates a more oriental and sensual feel. All tracks are recorded from Fred Kramer's (Souma Records, BE) collection of shellac and vinyl records he excavated over the last 10 years in Greece, Egypt and the US. Tracklist in the comments below. Check out more from Souma Records here:: https://soumarecords.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://soundcloud.com/soumarecords Comment by Кирилл tot 2024-02-15T11:15:57Z Comment by Rodja <3 2024-01-10T09:34:22Z Comment by guntyganesh yyes 2023-07-01T05:25:45Z Comment by NeroPseudo This. This. This. (Indeed this entire mix.) 2023-02-07T17:38:30Z Comment by RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY TRACKLIST 1. Panagis Charalampos – Den mou meine pleon zoi (Parlophone – Greece, 1933) Clarinet: Nikos Karakostas 2. Rita Abadzi – Gazeli neva sabah (Orthophonic – recorded in Athens, 1934) Qanun: Lambros Savaidis Violin: Dimitrios Semsis 3. Anna Chrysafi – Chorepse to tsifteteli (Odeon – Greece 1952) 4. Kemanî Âma Recep ¬– Çiftetelli Taksim (Columbia – Turkey, year?) 5. Şükrü Tunar – Oyun Havasi - Ciftetelli (RCA Argentina – Recorded in Turkey, year?) 6. Teodoros Kavourakis – Tetoia koukla ke tsachmina (Nina Records US – year?) 7. Katy Petraki – Och sebda pou echo (Nina Records – 1958) 8. Giota Lidia & Manolis Aggelopoulos – Ise si to splachno mou (Nina records US – 1958) 9. Giota Lidia – I Tsiganes ki' i tsigani (Columbia – Greece, 1958) Clarinet: Athanasios Haligiannis 10. Panos Gavalas – Kane mou to kefi (Odeon – Greece, 1958) 2022-11-29T04:11:59Z Comment by RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY 11. Georgos Koros – Tsifteteli diplochordo (Columbia – Greece, 1959) 12. Takis Lavidas – Hrisses pennies (solo cymbalom) (Parlophone – Greece, 1959) 13. Stelios Kazantzidis – Oglan oglan kalk gidelim (Columbia –Greece, 1960) 14. Sofia Kollitiri – Kouklitsa Pechnidiara (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1961) Clarinet: Giannis Vasilopoulos 15. Manolis Papageorgiou – Syrto-tsifeteteli (Music-Box – Greece, 1961) 16. Stelios Lazarou – Diplochordo Tsiftetelli (Nina Records US – 1961) 17. Mariana Hatsopoulou – Kapse me na gino stachti (Odeon – Greece, 1961) Violin: Stelios Lazarou 18. Katy Grey – Ti na foresso (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1962) 19. Giorgos Totis & Toula Retsina – Tou bouzouki ta telia (Lilly – Greece, 1960-63?) 20. Vangelis Perpiniadis – To bouzouki mou echi kefia (Parlophone – Greece, 1963) 21. Ria Norma – Se kanoun ke ponas (Odeon – Greece, 1964) 22. Takis Lavidas – Glykocharagma (solo cymbalom) (Baladeur – Greece, 1964) 2022-11-29T04:11:39Z Comment by RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY 23. Andreas Tsaousis – Kanis Giatros den borese (Decca – Greece, 1965) Clarinet: Panagiotis Kokontinis 24. Dimitris Zachos – Ime ftochos ma timios (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1966) Clarinet: Giannis Vasilopoulos 25. Giorgos Lavkas – Solo tsifteteli (Columbia – Greece, 1966) 26. Poly Panou – An anixis tin kardia mou (Bentetta – Greece, 1966) 27. Manos Papadakis & Litsa Diamandi w/ Vassiliadis – Ego perifana gia sena milao (Odeon – Greece, 1967) 28. Foteini Mavraki – Esi gia ola ftes (Polyphone – Greece, 1968) Accordion: Kostas Stamatakis 29. Lefteris Kolemidis – Potakas ke tsifteteli (Greek Voice Records – Greece, 1968) 30. Vassilis Vassiliadis – Tsifteteli 1969 (solo Farfisa) (Parlophone – Greece, 1968) 31. Vassilis Boemis – Bre kalos to Gianni (Sonata – Greece, 1969) 32. Neratzopoulos Stratos – To tsifteteli tis egis (solo Farfisa) (Panivar – Greece, 1969) 2022-11-29T04:11:21Z Comment by dASSani h 2022-11-18T07:39:54Z