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title: "Putumayo Presents Greece: A Musical Odyssey"
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# Putumayo Presents Greece: A Musical Odyssey

**Brand:** putumayo presents
**Price:** 6824 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Putumayo Presents Greece: A Musical Odyssey by putumayo presents
- **How much does it cost?** 6824 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Product description          VARIOS INTERPRETES GREECE: A MUSICAL ODYSSEY             .com          Because it focuses on some of the country's most commercially successful artists of the last two decades, this smoother-than-usual Putumayo sampler of contemporary Greek music will disappoint listeners in search of the kind of joyous party ambiance you may find in a touristy Athens taverna. The mellifluous strains of the traditional bouzouki are a constant presence, but the twelve songs here boast the sophisticated arrangements and lilting melodies of European pop at its cosmopolitan best. A somber ballad with touches of accordion, veteran singer/songwriter George Dalaras' "Sou Axize Mia Kaliteri Agalia" dazzles you with an opening line of exquisite irony ("I don't care/Who you're listening to this song with tonight") while the raspy vocals of Glykeria turn "Ta Ziliarika Sou Matia" into a visceral anthem of romantic obsession. Songs by lesser known artists such as Kostas Makedonas and Theodosia Stiga are equally compelling. A few serious omissions: the endearingly anarchic Dionisis Savopoulos, the Middle-East-meets-techno shenanigans of Ana Vissi and the delicate ballads of Arleta--the Greek equivalent of Joni Mitchell. --Ernesto Lechner

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## Customer Reviews

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    Greek music in all its exuberant beauty
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2014*

Greece, the birthplace of democracy and of Western culture, is also a country with a glorious musical heritage.  I enjoyed the music that I heard while traveling in Athens, and on a cruise among the islands of the Cyclades, but I must admit that all my reading of classical Greek literature did not provide me with information about Greece’s musical heritage.  The Putumayo album “Greece: A Musical Odyssey” has helped to educate me in that regard.From the album’s thorough and helpful liner notes, I learned a great deal about rembetika, entehno, and laiko as musical genres, and about traditional Greek instruments like the bouzouki and the baglamas (both plucked string instruments).  I liked the fine harmonies that I heard on many of these songs, and I appreciated the deep, sultry, sensual vocal styles of Anastasia Moutsatsou, Elly Paspala, Melina Kana, and Theodosia Stiga.  Not all of the songs are strictly traditional; I liked the slightly more modern sound of Kotzas Mantzios’ “Eleni” (the title a reference to Helen of Troy).  And one of my favorite songs on the album was Children of the Revolution’s fast-moving “Ragizi Apopse” (“Broken Pieces”).The liner notes describe George Dalaras as “The Greek equivalent of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Woody Guthrie rolled into one” – high praise, indeed, and the understated vocal quality of his song “Sou Axize Mia Kaliteri Agalia (“You Deserved a Better Love”) is very fine.  Glykeria’s “Ta Ziliarika Sou Matia” (“Your Jealous Eyes”) stands out, with the kind of classic sound that one might hear at an Athenian taverna.  And Kostas Makedonas ends the album on a very fine note with “Sixty Billion Dollars” (and no, for you Dionysian cynics out there, the title does not refer to the Greek national debt).Like all Putumayo albums, “Greece: A Musical Odyssey” contains fine visuals, from the classical-Greek-art-inspired cover to the photo on the inside of the blue-roofed and white-walled buildings of Santorini – a place you should certainly see when you travel to Greece.  While you’re still waiting for your New York-to-Athens flight to begin boarding, “Greece: A Musical Odyssey” is a very fine way to begin your travels, musically speaking.

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    Blown away
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2012*

I didn't expect much purchasing this album. I read the good reviews here and elsewhere while looking for a selection of some of the best Greek music so I decided to get it. I simply wanted to use it for a Greek themed slide show.First I listened once to it in order to pick some songs. It happened to be around the time when my wife was preparing to leave for her night shift, and she told me later that night that the music gave her a long lasting "feel good" mood. It had the same effect for me. It probably helped that we spent 6 days in Greece last summer, but we have never been into Greek music.It became now one of our favorite albums and to be honest I love it at the moment the most among the many hundreds of albums that I own. It is that good. Granted I might get bored with it eventually, just as I do with most of the albums that I obsess over with at some point, but I think it is a gem of a collection and at least to me, surprisingly so.This one disc alone I wouldn't call an Odyssey though, as it is rather a short collection, but whomever picked these songs must have been a genius. They all have something in common (at least the language) and yet they are quite different among them and all very good. I absolutely love about half of the songs and like quite a bit the other half. Rarely if ever I can say the same about the albums of a single artist. Will I repeat myself if I will say that all the songs were new to me.Unfortunately there are no song previews here, and that is a pity. Do yourself a favor and either order this one, or if you are not sure yet, search the web, as some of the songs can be found as videos on youtube and elsewhere.

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    A Delicious Musical Blend
  

*by J***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2009*

This from the included insert of GREECE A Musical Odyssey:"Greece has long been a crossroads for sailors, warriors, traders and travelers of diverse origins. Greek music reflects cultural exchanges that have occurred for millenia...Traditional music is highly prized in Greece, and even the most westernized pop stars are obliged to include at least one song with a folkloric flavor on their albums."Sounds good to me.If you like contemporary adult, popular Greek music, this is a CD for you. It's a great collection that alternates female solo vocal odyssey with male solo, a "Zorba the Greek" like instrumental or two & choral vocale. The music is sophisticated, sexy--and fun & very danceable. The deliveries tend to be light, but in many songs there is a hint of deeper emotion as well.I love this CD. It's like being transported to your own, private taverna!Incidentally, the boolet insert is very interesting & educational too.
  
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The Very Best of Mikis Theodorakis







  
  
    
  
Mondo Greece

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