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The Rough Guide to the Music of Greece is a fascinating compilation--far more than the mere aural accompaniment to a thousand sunlit feasts of kebab and kleftiko (a word which originally denoted a stately dance). But those familiar sounds are there, in the voices of Manolis Angelopoulos (Greece's most famous gypsy singer) and Stelios Kazantzidis (who brought back the Oriental influences which had been banned from Greece in the 1930s). The point about Greek music is that it has always reflected the confluence of east and west, and this disc is full of such echoes. We get the rembetika music which grew out of drug dens in Thessalo
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Manufacturer: World Music Network
Release date: 8 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0605633106626 UPC: 605633106626
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Release date: 8 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0605633106626 UPC: 605633106626
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