Arrangement by Farya Faraji, with recordings of traditional Clarinet playing by Greek musicians. Continuing in the series of the Balkan freedom fighters, I wanted to bring attention to some of the most renowned “hajduk” like figures of Greece, called the klephts, and more specifically, those of Mani. I visited Mani last year and fell in love with the regional culture and the incredible landscape. Mani is a harsh, arid land that was always relatively isolated from the rest of the Peleponnese to the north. Pagans still prayed to the Olympian gods there by the 10th century, and it was de facto mostly independent during much of Ottoman rule. Pirate-like clans ruled the land and the surrounding waters, and their presence can still be seen in the stone tower structures of Maniot families which dot the land to this day. Some of the most renowned klephts, like Petros Mavromichalis, were Maniots, and his statue can still be standing to this day in Areopoli. The Maniots speak their own dialect of Greek which shares similarities with Tsakonian, the modern, living (but unfortunately dying) language descended from Doric Greek in Antiquity, and also some similarities with other southern dialects like Cretan. Some have said of Mani: “As a passerby you need three days to see Mani, as a visitor you need three months, but to see her soul you need three lifetimes. One for her sea, one for her mountains and one for her people.” The instrumentation harkens to a sound much like that of the era of the klephts of the 1800’s: a clarinet, a laouto, and typical Greek drums like the bendhir and the darbuka.

@boredhi3454

Жыл бұрын

I really love your music i know i asked again but can you make a Byzantine greek Macedonian music like the Epirus one?

@kaykysoares9152

Жыл бұрын

​@@boredhi3454 também estou no aguardo de ter minha cultura lusófona representada em suas músicas. Só uma já seria o bastante kkkkkkkk Estou como uma criança pedindo doce a um adulto, até conseguir😂

@boredhi3454

Жыл бұрын

@@kaykysoares9152 english?

@kaykysoares9152

Жыл бұрын

@@boredhi3454 I'm also looking forward to having my Lusophone culture represented in his songs. Just one would be enough lol I'm like a child asking an adult for a piece of candy, until I get it😂

@boredhi3454

Жыл бұрын

@@kaykysoares9152 look macedonia is my region home and i would like to hear a music like the Epirus one

As a Maniot, Thank you. So happy you enjoyed Mani. In my dads village we have churches that are 800 years old, and on the stones that the church was made with, there are still pagan markings. They literally tore down the old temples and used the same stones Lmaooo. Geiasou Korona!

@thegreekguy1124

Жыл бұрын

Όταν οι Μανιάτες θέλουν κάτι,γίνεται δεν έχει σημασία πως απλά γίνεται

@nikolaosboukouvalas449

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised when I learned how much of a common practice that was back then: When a building was no longer habitable or abandoned they would just take all the materials they could retrieve from it and reuse them to build something else. Historians speculate that we find no trace of villages and towns that we know existed, because of that practice.

@ellastrantellenas278

11 ай бұрын

Interestingly a pontian converted the maniotes to Orthodoxy. Nikon the Metanoite

@johnsreptifilmsstudios

6 ай бұрын

average village in epirus

The Maniots were truly an incredible people. They were the last pagans in Greece during the reign of Basil and never surrendered to the Turks. A tribe of true freedom fighters.

@miastupid7911

Жыл бұрын

They are still an incredible people, to this day!

@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt

Жыл бұрын

They are famous in Greece even to this time. Mostly for their stubbornness.

@miastupid7911

Жыл бұрын

And devoutly faithful to their heritage and Christ. Especially the people of Mani. The motto of the Greek revolt was: Μάχου Υπερ Πιστεως και Υπερ Πατριδος= "Mahou Yper Pisteos kai Yper Patridos" = Fight for (your) Faith (Christianity) and for (your) Country (Patridos conjugated = Patriots =your forefathers). Now there are customs that have pagan roots and adopted into today's Christian cultural, social customs. These customs are based in our way of life and define our identity and our link to our past. And this not just in Mani.

@alekos74100

Жыл бұрын

Few Maniots had remain pagans up until the 9th century AD. Majority had already become Christians and within the next centuries all of them did and like with old religion and old ways they were still the ones who defended Christianity and the Greek Orthodox Christian traditions the most in Greece from the middle ages up until the Greek revolution in 1821 to modern days now. The Maniots are the descendants of the ancient Spartans thats why you can find in this region of Peloponnese the oldest Greek dialect of the Greek language nowadays which is called Tsakonian (Laconian) which is the only remaining Doric Greek dialect (the language of the ancient Spartans) that is spoken today by a few thousands of Greeks in the region and is considered as the only surviving modern Greek dialect closest to ancient Greek.

@Pavlos_Charalambous

Жыл бұрын

​@@alekos74100 to ancient Spartan to be more precise 😉

I am a Maniot myself. Thank you for recreating a melody about the Maniots.

Greek, Norse, Turkish, Roman literally any song you make my brother is a masterpiece.I'm speechless. Congratulations!!🔥

@nishantduhan1

Жыл бұрын

Persian too

@arcotroll8530

Жыл бұрын

@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 We don't want it anymore

This truly was epic. 🇬🇷

As a son of a great-grandson of one of them, I greatly appreciated the song! Thank you!

@miastupid7911

Жыл бұрын

Να χαιρεσαι την καταγωγη σου. Και ευχαριστουμε τους προγονους σου!

There was a phrase that its not wide know to the rest of greeks.Εαν η Μανη έπιπτε,Ελλας κατευοδούτο.it means if Mani would fall the rest of Greece would follow.that's why Hibrahim 3 times tried to conquer Mani peninsula and thrice he failed. Νίκη ή θάνατος, Ταν ή επιτάς

as a neighboring Arcadian Greek, i have nothing but the most profound respect for the maniotes. well done as always, farya!

I feel extremely attached to the balkans and I feel a profound love for everyone, greek, serbian, albanian, bosnian, croatian, bulgarian, turkish and for our multimillenary history and culture. Basically, we are all cousins, a big crazy familly full of intrigues, dramas , yes that's true but we are a familly and that's something nobody can deny. Big love from Romania to you all!

@Theodisc

11 ай бұрын

Yes, Brother. We all have so much more in common with each other than not. 💪🧿💙

Καλύτερα μιας ώρας ελεύθερη ζωή παρά σαράντα χρόνια σκλαβιά και φυλακή

@FarfettilLejl

24 күн бұрын

Now back to work, those taxes won’t pay themselves!

As a Greek this is one of the most interesting time periods to read and know.

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Get back that damn city Roman. You know the one.

@dinos9607

Жыл бұрын

@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 We know. We never forget. We also never forget who stopped us from getting it back in 1920, and it wasn't the Turks but a pan-european alliance of interests of both sides of the WWI. If it wasn't for Western Europeans, you would not even know what "turkey" is. And you would know what "turks" are as much as you know what Pechenegs and Cumans are.

@grivza

11 ай бұрын

@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Nah thanks, we're good.

@grivza

11 ай бұрын

@@dinos9607 My god. Come on man.

@dinos9607

11 ай бұрын

@@grivza All I am saying is the historical facts. Western Europeans did their best to impede Greeks clear out the Ottoman Empire. They did this in 1768, they did this in 1821, they did this in 1920 as well. Turkey is essentially a Western European creation. Anyone that does not understand this has no good grasp of history.

Just finished watching the Kings and Generals documentary on the Greek war of independence, that's some timing.

Very good song respect from Bulgaria

Thank you for creating music about the more modern era of Greece. Also check out the shepperd music of Sarakatsani for further inspiration.

You really nailed the clarinete in this one. I want you to play at my wedding 😂

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could play the clarinet haha, the clarinet recordings are by Greek musicians, I played the other instruments. I can handle the Laouto, Bouzouki and that type well enough, but wind instruments, forget about it haha

@fallennarcotic6981

Жыл бұрын

@@faryafaraji well guess it’s going to be a bouzouki wedding then

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

That I can handle

@dinos9607

11 ай бұрын

@@faryafaraji Bouzouki easy-peasy for an Iranian. Tambur, Setar, Tar, you have all the array of lute-like instruments.

Oh boy, my parents are from central greece, and since i am a child i loved greek tradicional songs. just by hearing the clarinet in the beginning i had memories of my childhood and a great sense of nostalgia. Thank you, Farya, your work is incredible

From antiquity to the middle ages to modern history farya Faraij triumphs with his pieces excellent work and unique as this one can hit harder to most Greeks because its a closer memory than Alexander or basil,thank you for your great work 🇬🇷💙

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Will you Romans please get your damn city back? It's been 570 years... 💀

@NIKOS_GEROSIDERIS

Жыл бұрын

​@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 My lawyer advices me to not answer this question.

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

@@NIKOS_GEROSIDERIS lmao. Rebellious Romans. 😂

@bluesteno64

Жыл бұрын

How does one pronounce Basil, is it BAY-sil Or BAHH-sul?

@arcotroll8530

Жыл бұрын

@@bluesteno64 BAH-sil

The clarinet playing is magic

Bravo!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Thank you Farya for your hard work!!! Привет братьям грекам. Hello greek brothers!!! γεια σας αδερφια ελληνες!!!🇬🇷❤🇷🇺

I'm waiting for a song like that for some time, and you did it. Nice work ⚔️✊🏻🫳🏻🇷🇴 🇬🇷 More warrior's songs!!!!

Великий уклін тобі, за твою роботу Фар'я. По нам стріляли "шахеди", але Слава Богу всі живі здоров.

Yet another amazing Greek composition by Farya

"Our Basileus (Constantine XI) died in battle. He never signed any treaty with the Turks. And our King's guard has always been in war with the Turks since then. And some fortresses never surrendered. The English captain then asked me "who are this Royal Guard, which are these fortresses?" And i answered him, "the Royal Guard are the so called Klephts, the Basileus's fortresses are MANI, Souli and the Greek mountains". General Theodoros Kolokotronis. I have waited so much for an epic song for the Greek War of Independence and the Greek freedom fighters! And once again you did an excellent job! Congratulations and well done!

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Roman DNA used to make a new Greek body. Very beautiful.

@hliaspapanikolaou8017

Жыл бұрын

​@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 the Maniots where not Roman s where Spartan s they where independent all the way

@DCCrisisclips

Жыл бұрын

@@hliaspapanikolaou8017 lol, you do realise they were both. Both Spartan and Romios/Greek

@hliaspapanikolaou8017

Жыл бұрын

@@DCCrisisclips do you realize that ,the Maniots where not taking orders from Costandinopole? Before 1259 ;Romios means Christian citizen of Eastern Roman empire,Maniots where Pagans for centuries and not Christians so wher not Roman s their traditions where not Roman,so they Where Spartan s and only

@hliaspapanikolaou8017

Жыл бұрын

@@DCCrisisclips do you realize that ,the Maniots where not taking orders from Costandinopole? Before 1259 ;Romios means Christian citizen of Eastern Roman empire,Maniots where Pagans for centuries and not Christians so wher not Roman s their traditions where not Roman,so they Where Spartan s and only

Listening this masterpiece while sipping my Turkish coffee ❤

@arcotroll8530

Жыл бұрын

We like Turkish coffee in Greece too. Arabic French and Irish as well. Long as it is good coffee we don't care where it's from

@MCMLXXXVICCXII

Жыл бұрын

@@arcotroll8530 Same here. I was reffering the cooking technique of the coffee :) Bone apetite!

your timing is fucking ethereal. came across this literally just as i was considering the mani peninsula as a decently important location in a story of mine. this is going on the vibe list, very nice clarinet shredding

Amazing song!!! Still waiting for a Spanish themed one!! 🙏🏻🇪🇦

Last Spartans , Great music as always

third day of listening to this on repeat. holy fucking banger.

Incredible work, once again! 🔫⚔️🔫 Long live Mani!

@ntonisa6636

Жыл бұрын

...when I typed those emojis on my other device they looked like realistic handguns not water pistols (I guess we should thank gun violence in America for this lame new design 🙄)

The " Tsakonika" was one of the Permanent " Tagmata '" ( battalion s)of the Byzantine empire made up from Tsakones and stationed in Costandinopole

beautiful song! i love greek music and mediterranean in general, it would be awesome to see a bavarian song on here

What incredibile timing, my dna test results came back recently, not only am i completely homogenous, i’m also strongly linked with people in the peloponnese.

@scorpionfiresome3834

Жыл бұрын

@@xunqianbaidu6917 ?

Great blend mate. Even to this day, the Maniates are the toughest mofos you can find.

Thank you always for all the great music

Great work as always

Your music takes me back in time.

Thank you brother 🇬🇷❤⚔

Always Amazing..Awesome channel ❤

I love your music a lot, I have a playlist with your music❤

Farya's music is guaranteed to be bangers!

J'adore vos musiques, j'espère un jour voir la sortie d'un album

As always amazing work. Your dedication to your craft and music can be seen to all the videos you make. I'm especially happy whenever you cover any type of greek music, traditional or not since I'm greek myself and I feel it's a great part of our culture that not many people know unless they visit the country themselves. Again thank you for your hard work and keep at 😁😁😁

This is brilliant Farya!

Não conhecia esse povo maniota, realmente é uma história única. Resistiram ao poder do tempo e mesmo durante o Império Bizantino, continuaram a manter as antigas práticas pagãs gregas até o século X! Intrigante, vou pesquisar mais acerca deles.

Otro gran Trabajo Farya! Eres un maestro 👏👏👏

Excellent! You never fail to do a bang-up job. Πολύ φοβερό!!!

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Get back your city Roman. You know which one.

Always a treat!

You did it! Waited so long for klephts, and this piece lived up to all my expectations. Which hajduks are next?

amazing as always farya! also, i have a suggestion. since you now have almost 94k subscribers, i think you should do a q&a video when you reach 100k. that would be great :) much love from turkey

Im American but half greek an love it 🇬🇷💪💪💪💪

Hi bro! i love so much your content it's simply amazing, the fact you give to know to the world different cultures by their music and art is excepcional. Thanks for that. I wonder if you have contemplate to bring us any south american precolombine cultuure? would be amazing. Greetings from Chile

@bluesteno64

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!!!

My Great great grandfather was from mani and his name was Leonidas, thank you for this amazing song

Wonderful, thank you.

Τρομερός! Τώρα κάνε και ένα από Στερεά Ελλάδα και έχεις συμπληρώσει κάθε περιοχή! Δεν υπάρχεις φίλε...

congratulations yet again!

Fantastic stuff, from Kalamata

The ultimate fuck around and find out people

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Are you Greek?

@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201

Жыл бұрын

​@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008Είναι στο όνομα γι'αυτό ναι

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

@@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201 good. Now take back that damn city already you slacking Roman. It's been 570 years!!! 💀

@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Sorry bro we Mediterranean motherfuckers run on our own clock, nothing I can do 😭

@sethfrisbie3957

Жыл бұрын

@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 I see you are obsessed with the Romans and seem to love them a lot while I have a love-hate relationship with Rome. If you wonder why I will just shorten this:I am Celto-Germano-Hellene-Romano-Finno in regards to the peoples in my ethnic blood. Celto being from:The Irish and Scottish. Germano from the English,Germans,Swedish and Norwegians. Hellene from the Greeks. Romano from the French who happen to be the decedents of the Gauls. Finno from the Finnish.

Thank you

Damn what an epic song about this tribe

love it

Γεια σου φίλεFarya❤,toujours LP

Toujours nous impressionnes😊et navons dela joie😊.

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Take back Constantinople Roman.

Amazing track. I hope the Souliotes are somewhere on the list too. I might be biased, though, being an Epirote.

i suggest to you to make a version of the song ''ΜΑΝΑ ΜΟΥ ΤΑ ΚΛΕΦΤΟΠΟΥΛΑ'' it should be great

Every song you make is a masterpiece! Can you make Bulgarian song like ,,Boqt nastana"" or ,,Stani stani unak Balkanski"?

ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΟΣ!

Bravo !

farya it would be really cool to see some sephardic jewish music! great composition as always today btw

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

Good timing, one of the next ones in the upload list is a Shepardi Jewish song!

@yllejord

Жыл бұрын

@@faryafaraji Looking forward to that 😃

Great!!

Squidward wishes he could play clarinet like this lol

Αγαπώ πολύ την Ελλάδα ❤

good as usual

I know you get this all the time (song requests) but I do have an idea for one Either a symphony, or a song. This is what I suggest for you. Heraclius the Basileus Symphony: 1. Overture: The Eastern Roman Empire - Maurice 2. Overthrown - Maurice is Overthrown, music sounds hopeful, as Phocas overthrew him 3. Phocas: - Has an “evil” like sound to it in a minor key, and with some notes just out of place. The reason for this is that he was entirely random with how he did stuff like most Tyrants 4. War with the Sassanids - Begins with a Persian Tune, as it was Khosrow who declared war on Phocas, the Persian music is louder (mostly) than the Byzantines symbolizing that they are winning the war, and staying somewhat of a background tune. 5. Phocas Overthrown by Heraclius - Begins in a minor key to a key change to more of a major key they begin to hear the first part of Nineveh Symphony, This music ends off with a prayer like Psalm 135 before moving on to… 6: Heraclius’ war with Khosrow - Mostly on the side of the Byzantines. With bouts of Sassanid music. Shows Heraclius Winning his battles and ending off with the victory at Nineveh. 7: Heraclius returns Triumphant -Major, somewhat following Thermopylae and Heraclius’s Victory 8: The Letter - For context, Muhammad sent Heraclius a letter asking him to convert to Islam So kind of like Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar it repeats itself until all music stops to go too... 9: Rejection Ominous and Arabic music begin to play this portrays that if Heraclius had accepted he would be safe if he had converted. 10: Muslim Invasions Both Sassanid, Byzantine, and Islamic music begins to play portraying the the somewhat alliance between the Romans and Persians. 11: Yarmouk - The Byzantine battle of Yarmouk takes place and it starts off with a sluggish (kind of) rhythm which symbolizes the Byzantines being tired to fight due to the Persian wars. Then it quickly falls out off hand 12: Heraclius’ Failure Quiet beat with a depressing end like Carrhae. 13: Everything Everything Heraclius fought for had now lost and a quiet weep of prayer can be heard in the background 14: Death Depressing overall, as he had lost everything. The end This is just a suggestion. I do hope you take this into consideration, and sorry about grammar and spelling, I did this on my phone.

Holy shit! Why wasn't I recommended this earlier!

It reminds me a lot to the tsakonikos, is it based on that kind of music? Also, I thought you would make a piece more like a khasapiko, from Constantinople, glad you proved me wrong and did something that was actually from Morea, more in line with all the Klepht thing, maybe other day you'll do a Constantinopolitan one about the Phanariots

Great

god DAMN this one goes hard

One of the most formidable and fearsome pirates of the Mediterranean

Εύγε !!!

This song goes hard af.

This is a banger

I don't know as much about Greek history as I should, so unfortunately I do not know the Klephts very well, but nonetheless this is an absolute bop. I'll have to do more research, I suppose, haha!

@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt

Жыл бұрын

Klephts were angry, fearsome, freedom lover highlanders of mountainous Greece.

@jokester3076

11 ай бұрын

“Klepht” is the greek word for Bandit or highway robber, the most famous and successful lived in isolated villages and tower houses on the hills and mountains of Mani. The Klephts became outlaw heroes like Robinhood, when many started to support underground national liberation movements, although some joined the rebel cause out of self-interest.

@grivza

11 ай бұрын

@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt Angry and fearsome they were, although the direction of their aggression was a matter easily bought and paid for, one day klephts, the other armatoles and vice versa. I think we should refrain from romanticizing them, whenever it is possible.

@sprc155

8 ай бұрын

The klepths were outlaws and bandits who raided both greek and ottoman settlements during the ottoman occupation of Greece. However, at the greek revolution, they were the first to set up the revolutionary force, as their experience in guerilla warfare, raiding and pillaging was high.

@DCCrisisclips

2 ай бұрын

@@sprc155 Most Maniots were not klepths though. As Mani was already free

Γεια και χαρά σας Μοραϊτες αδερφοί Και 'σεις κοπέλες γεια σας Τη 'λευτεριά η Ελλάδα μας Χρωστάει στη λεβεντιά σας Γεια και χαρά σας Μοραϊτες αδερφοί Που μάνα αν δεν σας γέννα Ούτ' Άγια Λαύρα θα 'χαμε ούτε Εικοσιένα Από Καλάβρυτα και Τριφυλία

Ironic I was just looking up Tsakonion greek, anyway great video as always 👍

Ζήτω η Ελλάς! 🇬🇷☦️

@miastupid7911

Жыл бұрын

ΖΗΤΩ! ΑΘΑΝΑΤΗ!

@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008

Жыл бұрын

Take back the city Roman

Beautiofigl

Out of curiosity when is the earliest known point of clarinets being used in Southern Greece?As someone who has studied playing the instrument I haven't seen much of that in the Balkans as a whole,especially before the modern era(evidence and pieces using it before the modern era)

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think the earliest would be the early 1800’s, at the *most* the late 1700’s but I’d be veeeery surprised if the latter were the case.

@somemeansfish8987

Жыл бұрын

@@edinsemovskispgy1236 I have been to parts of greek Thrace and even there I didn't see any so idk

@leonardfeder5115

10 ай бұрын

@@faryafarajiI believe the clarinet replaced the Zurna if I’m not mistaking.

It would be interesting for you to explore the more atypical, 19th century Romanian freedom fighters in Transylvania. Primarily the Moți people of Țara Moților, under Avram Iancu. They structured themselves in Roman legions and Tribunes. Such an arrangement could use a multitude of Transylvanian Romanian folk rythms and the sounds of the Carpathian-horn.

@yllejord

Жыл бұрын

Can you point me towards anything about those people that might be in english? I only get to wikipedia and then some town squares and hotels with the same names when I google.

@sticlavoda5632

Жыл бұрын

​@@yllejord ​​​I'd wish to be able to give you sources, but youtube keeps deleting my comments.

@yllejord

Жыл бұрын

@@sticlavoda5632 thank you for your effort. Maybe YT would be fine with it if you added them as simple text that I can copy/paste and not as links, but I don't want to put you into more trouble. Thank you again. I'll just google some more ☺

@sticlavoda5632

Жыл бұрын

@@yllejord ​​​You can start with reading about their distinct history. Like the Revolt of Horea Closca and Crisan as well as Avram Iancu. Then, you can listen to their music. They play the Tulnice or Bucium, and you can find videos of the first quite easily. They are Romanian highlanders of the Apuseni mountains, that according to some scholars, have primarily Celtic or Dacian ancestry, thus their golden locks of hair. They preserve the Romanian bucium, a sort of Carpathianhorn inherited directly from the romans. Fundamentally, they are heroes of the nation, and ancestral trouought.

@yllejord

Жыл бұрын

@@sticlavoda5632 I appreciate this, thank you so much.

this is a certified Faraji classic Btw, what software, if at all, do you use for your music?

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean for mixing? I use Adobe Premiere Pro

@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an

Жыл бұрын

When you're first composing the piece

@faryafaraji

Жыл бұрын

@@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an I almost only use real instruments but if I need a backing orchestra or choir and there I’ll use EastWest instruments

@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an

Жыл бұрын

@@faryafaraji dang. where do you get your instruments?

@disconnected7737

Жыл бұрын

@@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an He goes raiding and pillaging

Yeah, Mani is special. So Klepht literally means thief, bandit. Greece has a long, long tradition of mountain bandits. We do have a lot of mountains, so that helps. They were around quite a bit into the 20th century, still more or less glorified by the common people, having songs sung about them and everything. There is this subgenre of folk songs, the klepht songs, that happens to be my favourite. Epic songs, retelling the glorious deeds of the klephts, much like the akritika songs, but also describing the harshness of their mountain life and their longings. Wonderful stuff. The whole of Balkans is steeped in songs of this kind. Too bad there is a language barrier between me and them.

I hear some of this in modern Greek pop music; the male vocal timed to the beat, the wind-instrumented melody the seemingly is going backwards (compared to what we hear in "Western" pop music). I've been wondering which part of Greece this kind of sound is from, although perhaps it is homogenous to all of the Greek έθνος; Here are some searchable examples of what I am trying to say here on YT because I have wondered about this: Τζένη Κατσίγιαννη «Παίρνω τηλέφωνα»

@lightbringer2794

25 күн бұрын

This music is mostly from Rumeli (central Greece - Sterea Ellada), Thessaly and the Peloponnese.

@Theodisc

24 күн бұрын

@@lightbringer2794 Thank you so much. I found this number the other day. I'd love to hear it sung in Ancient Classical Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη & Σταύρος Σιόλας - Στην Πλάτη Του Καιρού

Los descendientes de Esparta !!

Image source? shown in video please

This could be played during a party

I have been doing some research on Hellenic languages and dialects and I was always struck at how Tsakonian and Maniot managed to retain so much of their ancient Doric ways un-interrupted and how both regions always resisted the multiple invasions of the Peloponnese; truly a brave and hardy people.

I’m from Karavostasi in Oitylo

Can you do a song for Scipio Africanus? ❤

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