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Topic: Music: Turkish zeybeks and Greek zeibekiko
Posted By: kotumeyil
Subject: Music: Turkish zeybeks and Greek zeibekiko
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 04:09

Below there are some samples of Turkish zeybek music by Muammer Ketencoglu. They have some similarities with Greek zeibekikos and rembetika.

I'd appreciate if our Greek frends post some zeibekiko samples...

http://dc1.4shared.com/dir/26654/bebbca49 - http://dc1.4shared.com/dir/26654/bebbca49



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 04:16

I think "Beyaz geyme toz olur" is special...



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 04:26
Also you can post any comments...

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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 05:26

It's very similar to the kind of Rebetika that we call: "Smyrneika" (from Smyrna). They're usually very sad songs full of stories about lost loves, percecution from the police & hasish (not so much in the Smyrneika). Buzuki is the primary instrument, but also piano, violin, quitar and a small buzuki-like instrument called baglamas, are used.

Unfortunatelly I don't listen to that music, so I don't have any songs to post. If you search for Smyrneika in Napster, you'll find many (I hope!).

 

 



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 05:36
As far as I know, there are two ecoles in rebetika Smyrna and Pirea. After the 2nd world war the Pirea ecole became dominant but I like Smyrnea one more. Maybe I'm familiar with that kind of music, that's why...

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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 06:04
true, the Piraeus school (or ecole as you call it  has a much "harder" sound than Smyrneika. Some regards it as a subculture and make connections to the Blues as its counterpart. If I recall there were some Blues musicians did performances with rebetica artists/rebetes (Luisiana Red playing with George Pilali comes to mind)

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 06:58
Yiannis, Chios was the island that's very close to Smyrna right? When I was in Cheshme there were Greeks coming with their "takna"s, to the "manav"s and shops of Cheshme.

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Posted By: Menippos
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:17
takna's?

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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:27
boats,  or I think karavi in Greek...

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Posted By: Menippos
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:38
Aaa, ok.


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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:39
I tought tekne was a common word...

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Posted By: Menippos
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:40
Nope, it isn't.
Perhaps the greeks of istanbul use it as a loan from turkish to say boat, but it is not common.


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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:54

Originally posted by Menippos

takna's?

Takna? I come from Samos island, which is just south of Chios and have never heard of this word. Varka is what we use for small boats and karavi for a ship.



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 07:59
Well, I have a Rum friend, he speaks Greek, and calls his boat tekne, even when speaking Greek, so I thought that it was common.

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Posted By: Menippos
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 08:09
I see... well, as I said before, he is using the turkish word, even when he speaks greek. Rums do it all the time.

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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 12:41
Actually the difference even though some (me included) may not hear it at first, are quite evident to anyone that has had some music 'schooling'. (so they tell me)
The Hellinic zeimpekikos is a slow 9/8 rythm with a 15 syllable verse broken into 2, one 8 syllable and one 7.  In the 'school' of Pireas the well known troumpa there was a variation of rythms, which is why we find songs from Bambakaris, Tsitsanis etc. played in a 9/18 rythm or the 'fast' 9/8 seen in the  'aptaliko' and the 'kamilieriko'.

While the Turkish 'style' which we also find in some Hellinic zeimpekika like 'se kanourgia barka mphka" = 'I got into a new boat'. Is more of a slow 4/4, something like a slow 'tsifteteli'  I've also heared you dance it in a 'circle' but not sure exactly how accurate that is.





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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 14:03

When we speak about zeybek-zeibekiko it has a 9/4 or 9/8 rhytym in its nature. Chiftetelli (means double stringed in Turkish) is another rhytmic pattern, though both are used in Turkish folk music and in rebetiko.

The zeybeks I posted are only a few. There are any different kinds of zeybeks. For example the chakici or (tsakitsi in Greek) zeybek is also famous in Greece as ar as I know. For example, in the movie Rembetiko, one old man from Manisa sings it in Turkish.

Of course there are differences between some Turkish zeybeks and Greek zeibekikos. For example, the Piraeus school's zeibekikos are somewhat alien to me (Vamvakaris is a member of it, also tsitsanis, though he is a late one). But the Smyrna school is very similar to Turkish one (some famous members are Andonis Dalgas, Dhimitris Semsis, Roza Eskenazi, Rita Abatzi, etc.). Also sometimes they sing in Turkish.

Also dancing is similar. As you stated before, some zeybeks are played in circles but not touching each other. Also it is played alone. The circle one is a later coreography I think. Also the Greek dancing of zeibekiko is played alone. In its essence it is very similar depending on improvisation. But in the later times professional dancers added some acrobatic figures; but the folk form is not so acrobatic...

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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 15:46
Why do all posts written in word appear like that?

The movie Rempetimo you mention is actually a real story of Marika Ninou, the composer in the movie Babis, is acually based on the life of Tsitsanis.
I can't really make out what you say about Tsitsanis, but from the 'late' you mention, I'll just say that both he and Bambakaris while there was an age difference (Bambakaris was 10yrs older) published their first album with a 3yr difference. (Bambakaris first) The real difference was in the song 'style' and that Tsitsanis actually revived Bambakaris' career in the 50's.

The Hellinic zeimpekiko is a solo, one dancer and the rest (real tradition says only one,   but...) form a circle around him and clap to the song's rythm.  While the 'aptaliko', is 'antikristo' two dancers face to face dance in similar steps going in a circle both around a specific point and theirselves.

Only lately have women began dancing zeimpekiko, as is it a 'new' custom to find many dancers on the same dancing floor during one song.
There was a time that you could see 'blades shine' for such an offence. (those were the days!!!)

When I said circle in my previous post, I mean I thought you dance it in a circle by holding hands. Probably saw the wrong pic.


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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 17:02

Vamvakaris was a classical tekke artist. He told a lot about hashish, evil women, sorrow etc. but Tsitsanis din't say much about tekkes but he told more about African nights, sad love stories, etc. He was a deviation from the classical line.

About dance, I know what you are talking about. I danced zeibekiko with Greeks two weeks ago at Tenedos! In Turkey zeybek is a dance of former bandits called "efe"s or "zeybek"s. It is played in a heroic soul. Sometimes a group of zeybeks played it together turning around a circle without touching each other and it is also played solo like in Greece...

Now I don't have any cds together with e but maybe toorrow I can post some different zeybek links too. In a more traditional style. By the way, why don't you post some Greek zeybekikos? If we can find we can post zeybek-zeibekiko vids, too.



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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2005 at 18:12
I liked your idea so here are some songs not all zeimpekika more of a random choice of rempetika in general.

Kazantzidis 'Sunnefiasmenj Kuriaki'  (Cloudy Sunday) (writen by Tsitsanis)

Slow connections (needs Real Audio Player)
http://www.datafox.org/greek/kiriaki.ram - http://www.datafox.org/greek/kiriaki.ram

Fast connections:
http://www.datafox.org/greek/sinnefiasmenikiriaki-kazantzidis.mp3 - http://www.datafox.org/greek/sinnefiasmenikiriaki-kazantzidi s.mp3


'Fragkosuriani' lyrics, music M.Bambakaris
(just love a good xasapiko )

Slow connection:
http://www.datafox.org/greek/franko.ram - http://www.datafox.org/greek/franko.ram

Fast connection:
http://www.datafox.org/greek/frankosiriani-bithikotsis.mp3 - http://www.datafox.org/greek/frankosiriani-bithikotsis.mp3
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If you want the lyrics you can find them here:
http://www.datafox.org/greek/gr_remb.html - http://www.datafox.org/greek/gr_remb.html

Markos Vamvakaris:

'Ta Matoklada sou Lampoun' (your elashes shine)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-tamatokladasoulampoun.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-tama tokladasoulampoun.mp3

Diazugio (divorce)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-diazigio.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-diaz igio.mp3

'Oli oi Rempetes tou Ntounia' (all the rempetes in the 'hood')
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-olirembetistoudounia.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-olir embetistoudounia.mp3

S'auton ton kosmo ton kako. (In this bad world)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-saftotonkosmotonkako.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bambakaris-saft otonkosmotonkako.mp3

Vassilis Tsitsanis

'Sunnefiasmenj Kuriaki'
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/tsitsanis-sinifiasmenikyriaki.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/tsitsanis-sinif iasmenikyriaki.mp3

"Ego plirono ta matia p'agapo" (I pay for the eyes I love)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/tsitsanis-egopleronostamatia.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/tsitsanis-egopl eronostamatia.mp3

Sotiria Bellou

Ase me, Ase me ( leave me leave me)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bellou-aseme.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bellou-aseme.mp 3

Kane ligaki upomoni (have a bit of patience)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bellou-kaneligakiepomoni.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/bellou-kaneliga kiepomoni.mp3

Marika Ninou (mentioned above in the movie Rembetiko)

Agapi pou'gines Dikopo Maxairi (Love that became a two-edged knife)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/ninou-agapipougines.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/ninou-agapipoug ines.mp3

Genithika gia na pono (I was born to be in pain)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/ninou-genithikayanapono.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/ninou-genithika yanapono.mp3

Yiannis Papayoannou

Kapetan Andrea Zeppo (Captain Andreas Zeppo)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayan-zeppo.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayan-zeppo.m p3

Bgike o xaros Pagania (Charon went out to 'hunt')
Damn great zeimpekiko!!!!!!
(the kind I mentioned above, when 'blades shine')
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayan-xaros.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayan-xaros.m p3

Den se thelo pia (I don't want you any more)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayianou-densethelopia.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/papayianou-dens ethelopia.mp3

Loukas Daralas

To Vouno (the mountain)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/daralas-tobouno.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/daralas-tobouno .mp3

George Dalaras

HAROKOPOY 1942-1953 by Akis Panou
(one of the BEST songs around)

http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/akipanou-xarokopou1942-1953.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/akipanou-xaroko pou1942-1953.mp3

Na'ne gluko to violi (may the violin be sweet)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/dalarasbagiantera-nanaiglykatovoli.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/dalarasbagiante ra-nanaiglykatovoli.mp3

Ti sou leei i mana sou (what does your mother tell you)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/dalarasskarvelis-tisouleemanasou.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/dalarasskarveli s-tisouleemanasou.mp3

Apostolis Kaldaras

Mou Spasane ton Mpaglama (They broke my Baglama)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/kalderas-mouspasanetobaglama.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/kalderas-mouspa sanetobaglama.mp3

Ebiba Rembpetes (Cheers Rembetes)
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/kaldaras-ebibarembetis.mp3 - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/kaldaras-ebibar embetis.mp3


Hell it's time open up a Famous Groose, should have after the first song.






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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 02:04
Thanks! I'll post more links. too...

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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 09:40

I added some zeybeks and Turkish folk songs to the previous list by Cengiz Özkan (The ones written with capitals). There are better examples but I couldn't find them yet...

http://dc1.4shared.com/dir/26654/bebbca49 - http://dc1.4shared.com/dir/26654/bebbca49



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 10:20

Some knowledge about zeybeks:

Folkdances, Costumes and Musical Instruments of Izmir

Zeybek folkdanceZeybek Dances (a dance of western Anatolia or its music) appear to our minds whenever Western Anatolian Folk Dances especially of Izmir, Aydin, Denizli, Balikesir and Mugla are told.

Zeybek dances are various about 150 types, however they can be gathered into two main classifications.

1) Slow Zeybek
2) Yörük Zeybek ( Fast Zeybek)

In Izmir Zeybek Dances that are to be danced whether single or with a group, display the Efe’s and Zeybek’s self-assurances, mainly braveness and their challenges. The Zeybek’s who show braveness and honestly with all their excitement are a symbol of dignity and valor.

Some of the Zeybek dances of Izmir and its surroundings are stated below: Arpazli, Harmandali, Kordon, Bergama, Dagli, Kasikçi Koca Arap, Elifoglu, Iki parmak, Sogukkuyu , Süslü, Jandarma, Yunt daglari, Bakirli, Kasnak, Hantuman, Bas bas, Sabahin Seher Vakti, Ötme Bülbülüm, Yagdi yagmur, Çakici, Ince Mehmet, Karsilama, Kozak, Somali, Yandir, Yörük Ali, Minarede Ezan Var, Sümbül Bahçesinde Karanfili, Kemeralti Zeybekleri.

Musical instruments:

The musical instruments that are used in Zeybek dances are clarnet and drum in the open areas, ‘’baglama’’ (a plucked instrument with 3 double strings and a long neck) is used in the closed areas. The double clarnet is traditional while the first clarnet plays the melody the other one accompanies it.

Costumes:

The costumes of Efe and Zeybek are told below.

Efe wear a deddish helmet which is made of broadcloth and this helmet called ‘’Kabalak’’. Efe tie ‘’Posu’’ that the young girls embroidered around their helmets. The blue shalwar (baggy trousers) that Efe wear are called ‘’Çasir Menevrek‘’. These shalwars’ length extends to the knee-caps and they are open in both winter and summer. The flank side of these ‘’Çasir Menevreks’’ are black-silk caftan (robe). They wear the tassels that is called ‘’Koza’’ and they are long. This tassed must be 100 drachma (400th part of an okka). If the jackets that the Efe wear have sleeves, this type is called ‘’Cepken’’ and if not, then it is called ‘’Çamadan’’. These are made of blue or dark-blue broad-cloth and they are embroidered with the black-silk caftan with various motifs and Zeybeks wear silver-thread cepkens. The mintan with thin round disks and without color is called ‘’Alakye’’, is worn to the waist and leather weapon case which is tied to it. In this weapon case ‘’Kulakli Yatagan Knife’’ takes place.

Besides a handkerchief a silver tobacco case, an amber cigarette holder and two okkas of clean wool-shorn is used in case of an injury and from flank side of the weapon-case, an iron stick that is called ‘’mese’’ leans over. He uses his knife to sharpen this Pala or to defend himself in case of a confrontation against agony. Two Efe never shoot each other, because this signifies ‘’cowardness’’.

Efe wear ‘’Pazubent’’ that is covered with silver to their arms, an ‘’enam’’ and a silver ‘’hamay’’ lean over on their breasts. Pazubent is worn from the childhood to the end of life. Efe’s weapons are silver reposs’e work that is embroidered with a silver reposs’e. They wear cross-cartridges called ‘’Karlilik’’on their breasts. The embroidered boots that Efe wear are called ‘’Kayalik’’ only Efe wear them. Zeybeks and infants wear ‘’Çariksi’’ (slippers). Both in winter and summer the woll socks are worn and knee-pad that is called ‘’Kepmen’’ are worn on it. The daggers which are put ‘’Kepmen’’ are used in dances. Efe and Zeybek are distinguished from each other with the difference in their mintans; Efe’s mintan’s are not buttoned up, their breasts are seen.


Meanings of the figures in Zeybek:

Some differences are seen in their figures of walking, turning, rising, knee-downing and holding up their arms (the walking with or without richochets) and turnings in the Zeybek plays display Zeybek’s self-assurance, honesty, braveness and challenging.


http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9714&whichpage=7 - http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9 714&whichpage=7



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 10:32

Another zeybek by Muammer Ketencoglu:

Su Ýzmir'den çekirdeksiz nar gelir

Seedless pomegranate comes from Smyrna...

http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/audio/mp3/zeybek_demo2.zip - http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/audio/mp3/zeybek_demo2.zip



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 10:46

A clip of a very nice zeybek:

http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/video/Muammer%20Ketencoglu%20-%20Fatmam_17348.mpg - http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/video/Muammer%20Ketencoglu% 20-%20Fatmam_17348.mpg

It says: Oh my Fatma, my life, my rose Fatma

              I don't add water to my raki (a hard Turkish drink with alcohol)

              If you add, I won't drink it

             but I'll never leave you my Fatma



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 11:04

Another wonderful zeybek by Muammer Ketencoglu...

Entarisi damgalý (Her dress stamped)...

http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/audio/mp3/zeybek_demo3.zip - http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/audio/mp3/zeybek_demo3.zip



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Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 19:10

Guys. Thank you very very much. I listened all posted mp3. both greek, turkish, ive liked it.

However, zeibekiko has quite balkans music sound. so I havent feel eastern soul in zeibekiko. I am not musician, but i think that zeibekiko has more "harmonic structure" than anatolian music sound and anatolian music has more "melodic structure" than zeibekiko.

btw: I think that byzantine music has eastern soul.

a sample.

http://dl3.rapidshare.de/files/3890134/28878942/eastern_soul.mp3 - http://dl3.rapidshare.de/files/3890134/28878942/eastern_soul .mp3

 



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 19:28

I see... What about these? These are old records of Greeks of Turkey from the 1st half of 20th century and they have the "eastern soul":

http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_portal/medya/muzik/muzik_kulturu/rumeli/ime_prezakias.mp3 - http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_portal/medya/mu zik/muzik_kulturu/rumeli/ime_prezakias.mp3

http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_portal/medya/muzik/muzik_kulturu/rumeli/trava_re.mp3 - http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_portal/medya/mu zik/muzik_kulturu/rumeli/trava_re.mp3

Also many songs from Istanbul -Rumeli:

http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_tr.asp?belgeno=35576 - http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_tr.asp?belgeno= 35576



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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 11-Aug-2005 at 21:50
Well the first of these last songs you gave links to, the first is a classical Smyrneiko style, the second is a HasapoServiko (not sure if the Serbs have a similar rythm and we adopted it and from that we named it so).

From your third link I found the http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/kultur_portal/medya/muzik/muzik_kulturu/rumeli/telgrafin_telleri.mp3" class="aralink - Telgrafin Telleri song really interesting. While it starts out as a Pontian song/rythm "ekaeken to Tsampasin" it makes a quick 'turn' in it's rythm to a well known song which is actually a syrto which is a clearly an ancient Aegean dance style/rythm.
It seems influence has gone both ways.


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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 12-Aug-2005 at 02:02

Another interesting song is "Uskudara gider iken". I read somewhere that it was adapted from a Scottish march when the British navy came to visit Istanbul...

Also attention to bakmýyor cesmisiyah, please. It was sung by Hamiyet Yuceses. Her surname means "great voice". You will see how it fits her when you hear her "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"s! 

 



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2005 at 12:12

A clip that shows how to dance a very old zeybek from Ýzmir/Smyrna:

Harmandali: http://dc1.4shared.com/account/file.jsp?id=337909 - http://dc1.4shared.com/account/file.jsp?id=337909



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Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 04-Sep-2005 at 21:01

Kotumeyil, look at that.

http://dl4.rapidshare.de/files/4735676/78965545/1._yannis_tassios_-_ti_patheno.mp3 - http://dl4.rapidshare.de/files/4735676/78965545/1._yannis_ta ssios_-_ti_patheno.mp3

That song is not zeybek, but very close to anatolian music style. Very interesting.



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 03:02
Thanks, The Turk!

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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 03:04
It sounds like middle Anatolian, maybe from Cappadocia... In the last part of it there's also some south-eastern taste... 

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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 14-Jan-2006 at 10:13

I found an interesting zeybek instruction video, it's not a widespread style from the Aydin-Bozdogan region, Bozdogan Serenler Zeybegi:

http://rapidshare.de/files/11030058/serenler_0001.wmv.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/11030058/serenler_0001.wmv.html



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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 16-Jan-2006 at 03:38
kotumeyil ,thankyou for this thread.

I have developed a real taste for this stuff but have yet to learn allot about the 'schools' or anything technical.

even better i now know that there is a turkish equivilant.




Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 16-Jan-2006 at 03:48
where is this "Bozdogan Serenler Zeybegi" from?


Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 16-Jan-2006 at 04:15
It's from a county of Aydin-Bozdogan. There was something as Aidiniko in Greek as well, wasn't it?

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Posted By: Periander
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2006 at 03:41
A great Rebetiko and Amane singer is Stratos Payoumtzis. I have many Rembetika CD's here, it is my favourite Greek genre, and by that I mean pre-post-War (if that makes sense).

Manolis Chiotis unfortunately, mucked things up when he introduced the four-chord bouzouki in the immediate post-war era and the fact that he also electrified the bouzouki. This meant that rembetika lost tehir Eastern (cf Turkish) flavour and became wholly European with a cheapened Turkish sound. Still, even in the 50s and 60s there were some good Greek rembetika, but it was not the classic sound any longer (I am one the purists).

I am curious, in Turkey, do the men still dance zeimbekiko alone? That's how it used to be in Greece too. Now women also get up to dance it...  (and no, I am not sexist)

One more question for our Turkish friends: Is the old style or rembetika (sorry for any incorrect spelling) still palyed in Turkiye? Is the master still in the centre in the teke or hamam?

I will have more to post on this issue as time goes on.


Glad to see that people like Markos Vamvakaris here! My favourite Rembeti too. Anyone here like Anestis Delias and Markos Melkon?


Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2006 at 04:46

Originally posted by Origen

I am curious, in Turkey, do the men still dance zeimbekiko alone? That's how it used to be in Greece too. Now women also get up to dance it...  (and no, I am not sexist)

There are male and female zeybeks and some new coreographies include both in folk dance groups. However, in its natural form the rhytm determines the sex of the dancer. Mostly the slower ones with a courageous air are danced by only males.

One more question for our Turkish friends: Is the old style or rembetika (sorry for any incorrect spelling) still palyed in Turkiye? Is the master still in the centre in the teke or hamam?

It is sad that also here in Turkey the music is dominated by market anymore. The tekkes and hamams are part of old fashion now. You can still find such playing bands in Istanbul but though they are some degenerated (also there are a few people who dedicately play them in meyhanes (raki and wine houses).

Also there's a dedicated man called Muammer Ketencoglu, who plays old zeybeks of Anatolia as well as Balcan music.This is his  perfect album for Anatolian zeybeks:

http://rapidshare.de/files/12292547/Karanfilin_Moruna.rar.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/12292547/Karanfilin_Moruna.rar.ht ml

 In the following link, you can click either of his groups' links to listen some of his demos:

http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/gruplar.php - http://www.muammerketencoglu.com/gruplar.php

 



 



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Posted By: Neoptolemos
Date Posted: 10-May-2006 at 22:47
Bump

This is for kotumeyil for creating this great thread

Album: Vromiko Psomi (dirty bread), 1972
Song: Zeibekiko
Composer / Singer: Dionysis Savopoulos
greecetravel.com/music/musicfiles/savopoulos-zembekiko.mp3

I like this song very much. It has been performed by several other artists, but the original recording is the something else! It starts as a rembetiko (in the beginning the only instrument playing is a baglamas), but later it advances as rembetiko-rock!

Also, I found a site with info on the history of Rebetika and Laika in Greece and some of the most important composers and singers. It also has links to rebetika/laika/zebekika songs (many of them have already been posted in this thread).
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/rembetika/



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-May-2006 at 03:36
Thank you, for reviving this thread, Neoptolemeos Some of the files I uploaded are expired now. Soon I'm gonna refresh them. New examples and instruction videos will come. By the way, if you can find a zeibekiko dance video, it would be very nice

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Posted By: Neoptolemos
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 05:31

I tried to find a good zeibekiko video on the net without much success...

I found a few videos on youtube http://youtube.com/results?search=zeimbekiko&search_type=search_videos&search=Search - click_here but they don't worth much. The last one would be very good if the picture quality wasn't so poor. The guy dances one of the best zeibekika ever! "To zeibekiko tis Evdokias" by Manos Loizos. You can download this song here: http://www.tavernaoliva.ru/music/evdokia.mp3 - http://www.tavernaoliva.ru/music/evdokia.mp3

The original recording of this song is slower and much better IMO. I have it in my collection and if somebody wants it PM me and I can send it by e-mail.



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 13:44

Thank you, Neoptolemos. Here's Bozdogan-serenler zeybegi instruction video (I fixed the broken link):

http://rapidshare.de/files/20283594/serenler_0001.wmv.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/20283594/serenler_0001.wmv.html



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 14:13
And here's harmandali zeybegi instruction video (again, I fixed the old link): http://rapidshare.de/files/20287032/harmandal__0001.wmv.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/20287032/harmandal__0001.wmv.html

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23-May-2006 at 13:12
 
Uskudara gideriken is an ancient byzantian song. But all balkan countries claim it as their own (bulgaria, serbia, bosnia, etc) so even if origins are dim it is certainly widespread. The chorus was even ripped by Boney M with their 70ies discohit "Rasputin". There are many versions, Eartha Kitt made one where she sings in Turkish.
 
For an old Greek (Istanbul rum) version, check out the soundtrack version of Yannis Saoulis.
 
For modern performers of turkish rembetika interpretation there are plenty to check out. Here are just a few suggestions out of many (saz, baglama & buzuki is central):
 
Fuat Saka (he covers many balkan, anatolian and caucasus styles):
- Simdi ne yapar
- Zeybetiko Topraga Asik
- Lazonasi Berepe
- Romana (vocals also in other language)
- Yildizlara Yolculuk (vocals also in greek)
 
Yeni Turku (they have covered many classical rebetika songs):
- Maskeli Balo (aka Pes Mu Pos Yinete)
- Kayikci (O Kaixis)
- Eski Dostlar (pes to nai)
- Kapris (Xatzhkuriakeio)
- Teli teli teli
- Yedikule (argiles)
- Cevriye (Aman Katerina Mou)
- Bulutlu Pazar (Sinifiasmeni Kiriaki)
- Gun dogarken
- Telegrafin telleri
- Madam Eleni
- Kulhani
- Akdeniz akdeniz
 
Fikret Kizilok:
- Istanbul (vocals also in greek)
- Olmasin Varsin (with Bulent Ortacgil)
 
Grup Trakya
- Istemem Babacigim
- Aman Minos
 
Grup Tsifteteli
- Beyoglu''nda Gezersin
- Kalenin Bedenleri (aka Tsifteteli Turkiko, vocals also in greek)
 
Selda Bagcan: 
- Cifte Ciftetelli
 
Hursid Yenigun (many of his songs are more commercial laika):
- Ah Ege Ah (Raki-Roka)
- Kalenin Bedenleri (aka Tsifteteli Turkiko, vocals also in greek)
- Zeybekiko Mi Ma Finis (vocals in greek)
- Her aksam
- Oyle sarhos olsam ki
- Sirtaki Zorba
- Mangali Yaktin Mi
 
Yenigun Muzik:
- Ummu
- Ege'nin Cocuklari
- Kanatlani Anilar
 
Zulfu Livaneli (has covered many of Theodorakis songs and also made albums with Theodorakis as well as Maria Farantouri):
- Memleket Kokulu Yarim (sirtaki style)
- Hep seni anar
- Geceleyin
- Selam Olsun
 
Grup Gundogarken (several songs in laika style, also cooperation with Vasiliki Papageorgiou):
- Pismanim
- Bodrum 1972
- Istanbul Atina Istanbul
- Sarmas dolas
- Hayallerimi Birak
 
Tanju Okan (commercial syrtaki style)
- Kaderim
- Cyk Git Icimden
- Her aksam
- Oyle sarhos olsam ki
 
Rafet El Roman
- Hanim Eli
 
Kudsi Erguner (originally a sufi componist, but check out his "Rembetiko From Istanbul") with ensemble:
- Yedikule (Argiles)
- Zeybek
- Karabiberim
 
Istanbul to Athina (mixed group):
- Telgrafin Telleri
- Argiles (yedikule)
- Aman Katarina Mou (Cevriye)
 
Bosphorus (mixed group):
- Galata Koprusunde (greek vocals)
- Zeybek
- Bad-i Saba , Madem ki Ben ir Insanim
 
Anatolia (mixed group):
- Uskudar'a Gider Iken
 
Haluk Levent:
- Samos'lu Dimitris (rebetika with a touch of rock)


Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 03:22
I didnt know that thread.I opened a thread named as "Rembetiko"
 
I give you links about rembetiko and rembetiko radios.
 
Vamvarakis is the best artist of the "Tekke"music.
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http://www.live365.com/stations/rebetis - http://www.live365.com/stations/rebetis
 
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembetika - http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembetika  turkish info for turkish friends.
 
http://www.greecetravel.com/music/rembetika/ - http://www.greecetravel.com/music/rembetika/
 
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Abatzi - Rita Abatzi
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yiorgos_Batis&action=edit - Yiorgos Batis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soteria_Belou&action=edit - Soteria Belou
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loukas_Daralas - Loukas Daralas
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Eskenazi - Roza Eskenazi
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikhalis_Genitsaris&action=edit - Mikhalis Genitsaris
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babis_Goles&action=edit - Babis Goles
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimitris_Gogos&action=edit - Dimitris Gogos (Baianderas)
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agathonas_Iakovides&action=edit - Agathonas Iakovides
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonios_Katinaris&action=edit - Antonios Katinaris
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apostolos_Khatzikhristos&action=edit - Apostolos Khatzikhristos
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manolis_Khiotis&action=edit - Manolis Khiotis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manolis_Khrisafakis&action=edit - Manolis Khrisafakis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Khrisafi&action=edit - Anna Khrisafi
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marika_Ninou&action=edit - Marika Ninou
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marika_Papagika&action=edit - Marika Papagika
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yiannis_Papaioannou&action=edit - Yiannis Papaioannou
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vangelis_Papazoglou&action=edit - Vangelis Papazoglou
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratos_Payoumbtzis&action=edit - Stratos Payoumbtzis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stelios_Peptiniadis&action=edit - Stelios Peptiniadis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kostas_Roukounas&action=edit - Kostas Roukounas
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kostas_Skarvelis&action=edit - Kostas Skarvelis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iovan_Tsaous&action=edit - Iovan Tsaous
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prodromos_Tsaoutsakis&action=edit - Prodromos Tsaoutsakis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vassilis_Tsitsanis&action=edit - Vassilis Tsitsanis
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Markos_Vamvakaris&action=edit - Markos Vamvakaris
  • http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haris_Alexiou - Haris Alexiou

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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 03:31
Alparslan1071, thank you for your nice contributionsSmile. I have a huge archive of Rembetika. If you look for some specific artists, I can share them with you.

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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 04:00

now I m listenning a greek radio.rebet music.I give you a radio link .that s wonderfull.Full of greek folk music radio station listed.

My favorites

http://www.live365.com/stations/rebetis - http://www.live365.com/stations/rebetis
 
This is huge source about greek music.
 
http://www.e-radio.gr/ - http://www.e-radio.gr/
 
I stopped drinking 3 years ago.I was drinking every night.I was an "aksamci" but those they passed.Now I am not drinking even a drop of beer.So when I found that rebetiko radio station after 3 years I really wanted put a bottle of raki or uzo on the table with melon and feta cheese.
 
I dreamed that i meet with my greek friends and drink raki together and listen rebet musics and listen their rum stories about old istanbul and tatavla.
 
Music is life kotumeyil really.


Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 04:30
You're right Alparslan, music is life; especially for me. I'm an amateur musician and I like to play ethnic  music, including rembetiko. I know the taste of what you dreamed very well...

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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 09:56
do you live in Istanbul?It s a nice city isnt it?


Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 09:58
No, I'm living in Ankara but yes Istanbul is a nice citySmile.

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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2006 at 04:51

do you habe mp3 of markos vamvarakis?



Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2006 at 04:52

do you have mp3 of markos vamvarakis?



Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2006 at 13:57
I think I have a few but I'm on holiday now. When I return to Ankara, I can share with you:)

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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2006 at 07:25
thank you  very much.iyimeyil


Posted By: Digenis
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2006 at 10:40
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Posted By: akritas
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2006 at 12:02
http://www.allempires.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=1465&FID=26 - kotumeyil
very nice thread.I am love with rebetiko (part is the zeybekiko)
 
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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2006 at 18:30
yeah, i think so too komshi

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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2006 at 14:27
i love rembetiko and bambarakis.But i do not understand what he says.
Frangosyrani for example.Any greek friend translate it parakalo?I know that he is half orthodox half catholic.


Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2006 at 07:15
Originally posted by Alparslan1071

i love rembetiko and bambarakis.But i do not understand what he says.
Frangosyrani for example.Any greek friend translate it parakalo?I know that he is half orthodox half catholic.
 
Quite simple lyrics:
 
There's a flame in my heart
as if you have bewitched me, sweet girl from Syros (Frangosyriani-by "Frango" means catholic-half the island's population is Catholic)
 
I'll come to meet you down by the sea-side
I'd like to cover you with kisses and caress you
 
We'll go to Finika, Parakopi
Yalisa and Delagratsia, even if I'll have a heart attack.
 
At Pateli, at Nihori, great time at Alithini
and at Pisko it's romantic my sweet Frangosyriani.
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Posted By: Neoptolemos
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2006 at 02:06
Originally posted by kotumeyil

By the way, if you can find a zeibekiko dance video, it would be very nice

Great dancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRzLKVbjhdM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRzLKVbjhdM


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Posted By: Alparslan1071
Date Posted: 03-Sep-2006 at 00:52
Yiannis, Efharisto Poli.Very nice words.I find very similar those all rembetiko song to old turkish songs.


Posted By: Sean_85
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2006 at 23:12
This is fantastic! This discussion has been going on for over a year and people are still posting! Never have I found so much discussion, interest and information on the origins of Greek zeimbekiko and Turkish Zeybek music, it has such a rich and colourful history.

In Greece this music is still extremely popular today, hit songs with the zeimbekiko beat are topping the charts more than ever. People old and young in Greece and Greek communities throughout the world continue dancing to this music in Taverna's, clubs, bars, parties, concerts and festivals. Some modern zeimbekiko songs seem to becoming very westernised yet others are sounding more Turkish than ever, when I say Turkish I mean the style of singing, not so much the background music. In Greece the zeimbekika seems to have developed into part of the pop culture where as in Turkey it appears to be preserved more as folklore, not that I'm an expert.

I don't know how to post links but if anyone would like to download some great samples which show some Commercial modern Greek zeimbekiko songs here are a few...

Themis Adamantidis - Ma Pou na pao

Nikos Kourkoulis - Tis Zoeismou Ta Feggaria

Pashalis Terzis - Fevgontas

Pashalis Terzis - Epistrofes

Anna Vissi - Na Se Kala

Make sure you use the right spelling!
These are just a few songs which show the variants of what zeimbekika has become. Who knows what the future for this music is! In 10 years time the Greek variation may have developed into something entirely different, where as in Turkey it may very well be perfectly preserved as a folk dance piece barely changed from when the true zeybeks danced with their swords in the 13th century.

Please keep your posts coming people!



Posted By: Sean_85
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2006 at 23:22
Sorry it is Pashalis Terzis - Epistrofes Katastrofes


Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 09:17
hi sean, welcome to the 'good part' of the AE communitySmile, yes there is the  flames in other discussions but ouitside of that, there are some very respectful members from both sides of the aegean and one of the reasons why i keep coming back.

i had time to kill 2 years ago and i was in a greek music store and with 2 hours spare i found pashalis best of album (heard of him only a little  b4) all i can say is im hooked and became a instant fan.


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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 12:04
uhm uhm sorry it hasnt anything todo with zeybek or zeimbekiko(?) but its worth watching, anatolian fire eurovision performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoU8s08piY




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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 15:35

Hi, it's nice that people are still interested in this topicSmile

There are some new zeybek videos on youtube. In this one two young men dance with a famous zeybek (coketrme) in a wedding or meeting without a coreography:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scnKhkZjrpQ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scnKhkZjrpQ
 
The following videos show how zeybeks (bandits) dance together with a coreography. This one shows 4 zeybek dances; 1-Süslü Jandarma 2-Zaide 3-Kostak Ali 4-Hantuman:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPvc5kzr4E&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPvc5kzr4E&mode=related&search=
 
I don't know the name of the following dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-ZcPmlYPk&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-ZcPmlYPk&mode=related&search=
 
This is Bozdogan Serenler zeybegi:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spAbzujnbGk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spAbzujnbGk
  


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Posted By: Bulldog
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 15:45
Uskudara gideriken is an ancient byzantian song. But all balkan countries claim it as their own (bulgaria, serbia, bosnia, etc) so even if origins are dim it is certainly widespread. The chorus was even ripped by Boney M with their 70ies discohit "Rasputin". There are many versions, Eartha Kitt made one where she sings in Turkish.
 
"Uskudara giderken" is actually an Ottoman song, Uskudar (Greek Scutari,Chrysoupolis) was actually under Ottoman rule 100 years before Istanbul.
 
The song "Uskudara Giderken" is a Mehter Band millitary march song and is famous across Europe because they sung it everywhere they wentSmile
 
 
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Posted By: Sean_85
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2006 at 22:20
To Kotumeyill, I watched those zeybek links they were great... Have u seen any of the modern Greek Zeimbekika being danced? The style has been changed quite a bit.


Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2006 at 05:29
thanks kotumeyil

is a zebek mean bandit orgianlly?

edit: is there any history on orgins, pictures on this dancing?

edit 2: i reconise alot of the moves (in the second link, i think the 'zaidi') though it is more restrained version

dayI i like the bellydancersThumbs Up





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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2006 at 16:26
Originally posted by Sean 85

To Kotumeyill, I watched those zeybek links they were great... Have u seen any of the modern Greek Zeimbekika being danced? The style has been changed quite a bit.
 
Yes I've seen Sean. As you said before, in Turkey zeybek dances are more preserved as a folkloric dance.
 
@ Leonidas, yes, zeybek is the name of this type of music, dance and the bandits. Their chief is called "efe" like Chakici Mehmet Efe, who is also mentioned in some Greek zeimbekikos.


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Posted By: Bulldog
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2006 at 14:13
Zeybek dance has a very interesting story, its danced in such a vast geographical area, from the Altay in Central/Eastern Asia to Greece.

Zeybek in old Turkic has a meaning of "protective armour".

Also there is a name Saybek.

Say = Strong/Sturdy/Compact
Bek = A title of honour

In Western Anatolia the Turks had a regional accent where they say S as Z so it became Zaybek.

There was a Aydin Beylik, Gazi Mentese, a leader of which was recorded as being Saybek Mantasa.

Its most likely from this derivation

Also Efe's who were Robin Hood type characters, greatly respected by the public. The Oghuz had an old tradition being the "Segmen(prnounced Seymen) tradition, famous Efe's used this tradition. The Efe's were due to their activities sometimes known as "bandits". There dance became the dance of the bandits.

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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2006 at 06:32
found some of pasxalis terzis video clips

here are my picks

Afise me mono
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITT91Bhuec

Paliokairos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JafQWX4Uds

Feugontas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTpD8o6dtI



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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2006 at 08:55
Thank you for the videos LeonidasSmile. The following is the Youtube link for a nice zeybek (I gave it before). The dancing man is Stelyo Berber. AFAIK he's the nephew of Patriarch Bartholomeos:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sUHYS7kCs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sUHYS7kCs


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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2006 at 09:22
gezz i didnt see that one before. man that could be anywhere in greece.Cry

(my fav song in my last post was the middle one)

BTW im very angry,  work just cut out youtubeAngry and i cant show a coople of greeks our videos


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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 26-Oct-2006 at 17:33
hey guys in this thread there are several Turkish and Greek music, enjoy it.

sorry i forgot to add link
http://forum.arbuz.com/showthread.php?t=32880


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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 27-Oct-2006 at 08:19
Dayi, you need a login to see that threadUnhappy


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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 27-Oct-2006 at 17:56
Originally posted by Leonidas

Dayi, you need a login to see that threadUnhappy
ah sh*t i know, its because of that idiot admin out there :(
I only give the link of that forum because if i gave whole links to the music i'll make here an warez-forum.
Leonidas, it is maybe worth for you to register there...

Greek Rebetika Songs
A collection of songs with the legendary composers and players
Vasilis Tsistanis, Giannis Papaionaou and others


Vasilis Tsitsanis 2nd with the Bouzouki

http://www.tsitsanis.gr/en/bio/ - Biography


Giannis Papaioanou 3rd with his Bouzouki

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Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively) is the name for a type of urban Greek music.

Rebetika were the songs of the Greek underworld, sung by the so-called rebetes (Greek: ρεμπέτης). Rebetes were unconventional people who lived outside the social order. They first appeared after the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

The songs, often compared to genres like American blues, are full of grief, passion, romance, and bitterness. They are generally melancholic songs telling of the misfortunes of simple ordinary men. Many early rebetic songs were about drugs, especially Hashish which led Rebetiko to be criminalized. Not until 1947, when Manos Hadjidakis indtroduced Rebetika to the upper classes, were these songs accepted as a music style. Damianakos Stathis noted that the rebetic songs of the first period were mostly the singing expression of lumpenproletariat. A lot of the rebetika songs are for dancing. Nearly half are zeibekiko, the remainder are hasapiko.



http://rapidshare.com/files/586833/Legendary_Rempetika__Greek__Songs.rar.html - http://rapidshare.com/files/586833/L...Songs.rar.html

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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 27-Oct-2006 at 17:58
ZEYBEKLER 2002

Klarinet SOMALI MUSTAFA
Asma Davul BERGAMALI MESUT
Trompet ARAP




01 - Zeybekler - Harmandali
02 - Zeybekler - Aydin Zeybegi
03 - Zeybekler - Mugla Zeybegi
04 - Zeybekler - Cokertme
05 - Zeybekler - Vardar Ovasi
06 - Zeybekler - Aslan Mustafam
07 - Zeybekler - Ormanci
08 - Zeybekler - Sabah Guvende
09 - Zeybekler - Tavas Zeybegi
10 - Zeybekler - Soma Zeybegi
11 - Zeybekler - Zeytinyagli
12 - Zeybekler - Cifte Telli

http://rapidshare.com/files/457953/Zeybekler-Zeybekler_2002.rar.html - http://rapidshare.com/files/457953/Z..._2002.rar.html
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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 27-Oct-2006 at 18:01
i think this is interesting:


Common Greek Turkish song and tunes


1. Agir Aydin Zeybek Havasi - Gas Gadinis (instrumental)
This is a beautiful prewar from the 78’s Lps Identical to no 13
2. Aman Aman Nalbandim (turkish)
This is the Turkish Version of the Menemen Zeybegi No 20
3. Aptaliko - Giorgos Mitsakis
I already posted this before Abdal Zeybegi with bouzouki
4. Aptalikos (abdal zeybek) - Traditional Group from Lesbos
Another version of no4 played with santouri, violin, guitar of the Group of Nikos Kailatzis
5. Aydiniko - Dilek Kots-Karsi - Aidiniko (instrumental)
Dilek Kots a Turkish woman with the Greek group Karsi play this beautiful zeybek
6. Aydiniko Zeybek - Dimitrios Semsis
This is the original version of no5, prewar version excellent
7. Ayse Karsilama - Traditional Group from Lesbos
Ayse karsilama
8. Ayvalik Zeybek (Harmadali) -Giannis Kiriakatis
Rare prewar excellent version of Harmadali played by clarinet and santour
9. Ayvaliotiko Zeybek - Haris Lemonopoulos
Also another very nice version of the Ayvalik Zeybegi said to be Haris Lemonopoulos on the bouzouki
10. Barbouni Karsilama - Traditional Group from Lesbos
The simular tune of Eminem
11. Bolgour Sirtos - Nikos Kalaitzis
This tune starts with the amigdalo (almond) and end with the Turkish Bolgour
12. Dance of the horses - Traditional Group from Lesbos
Its is said to be a Turkish marching tune in 5/4 rhythm also called At Havasi
13. Harmadalis Zeybegi - Nikos Kalaitzis
The Harmadali version of Lesvos island
14. I learned you play dices Zeybegi– Antonis Dalgas (Greek Version)
Prewar greek sang version of no 1
http://rapidshare.de/files/20907951/Common_Greek_Turkish_vol1.rar.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/20907951/..._vol1.rar.html

[if you have any turkish versions of these songs please post them in the forum]

15. Jadarmas Zeybegi - Nikos Kalaitzis
The Zeybegi Jadarmas of Lesvos island
16. Kanarini - Roza Eskenazi
Also know in Turkey prewar version
17. Karsilamas of Mesotopos - Traditional Group from Lesbos
18. Komita Karsilama - Nikos Kalaitzis
Another Turkish Karsilama from Asia Minor
19. Memet – Kakourgos
memet played by the santouri player “Kakourgos” Lesvos Island
20. Menemen Zeybegi (Greek version)
Prewar version
21. Oyun Havalari - Mustafa Kandirali – Zeybek
Turkish version of what we play as Bergama Zeybegi
22. Pigi (Karsilama) - Traditional Group from Lesbos
Karsilama Pigi
23. Eminem - Roza Eskenazi
Excellent prewar sang by the Greek Roza
24. Sala Sala Sirtos- Antonis Dalgas
Another Turkish tune. Here another prewar version
This is played even today in Greece, very popular
25. Tsakitzis - Ahilleas Poulos
A excellent prewar version of Tsakitzi sang by Ahilleas Poulos in Turkish
26. Tsakitzis - Gas Gadinis (instrumental)
Also excellent prewar version

http://rapidshare.de/files/37295517/Common_Greek_Turkish_vol2.rar.html - http://rapidshare.de/files/37295517/..._vol2.rar.html
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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 17:40
Thank you DayI; especially the last ones reflects the common culture very wellSmile

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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 17:53
George Dalaras - Mes tou vosporou ta stena

On the Bosphorous

Bogazicinde Yanni ve Mehmet
Oturur yanyana aksamlari
Aglar Yanni
Ve Mehmet icerek soyler sarkisini:

Ben Turkum sen Rum
Ben de halkim sen de halksin
Senin inancin Isa benimki Allah
Ama ikimize de dusen ah ve vah

Biraz sevgi ve biraz sarapla
Sende sarhos olursun,bende
Al ic tasimdan
Adelfi ve kardesim

Ben Turkum sen Rum
Ben de halkim sen de halksin
Senin inancin Isa benimki Allah
Ama ikimize de dusen ah ve vah

Μες του Βοσπόρου

Μες του Βοσπόρου τα στενά
ο Γιάννης κλαίει τα δειλινά
και ο μεμέτης πλάι του
πίνει και τραγουδάει του

Τούρκος εγώ κι εσύ Ρωμιός
κι εγώ λαός κι εσύ λαός
εσύ Χριστό κι εγώ Αλλάχ
όμως κι οι δυο μας αχ και βαχ

Με λίγη αγάπη και κρασί
μεθάω κι εγώ μεθάς κι εσύ
πιες λίγο από το τάσι μου
αδέρφι και καρντάσι μου

Τούρκος εγώ κι εσύ Ρωμιός
κι εγώ λαός κι εσύ λαός
εσύ Χριστό κι εγώ Αλλάχ
όμως κι οι δυο μας αχ και βαχ

http://dosyam.net/?id=607fcb - http://dosyam.net/?id=607fcb

sorry mods, sorry kotumeyil i had to post it because i've liked it and think you'll like it also.


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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 18:14
Fikret Kızılok was also singing this song in Greek...

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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 13:24
Originally posted by kotumeyil

Fikret Kızılok was also singing this song in Greek...


well here's the link of that music song by Fikret Kizilok and Bulent ortacgil
http://rapidshare.com/files/1269850/Katerina.mp3.html


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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 11:25
Im here again for sharing Turkish - Greek rembetiko music!

SİRTAKİ - GREEK FOLK MUSİC



DİNLEYİN EZGİLER SİZE HİÇ YABANCI GELMEYECEK


01 - Syrtaki
02 - Hasapikos
03 - Aptaliko Zeibebiko
04 - Hasaposervikos
05 - Karsilamas
06 - Sirto Rodou
07 - Pentozali
08 - Zorba's (Syrtaki) Dance
09 - Hasapikos Dance
10 - Zeybebiko And Tsifteteli Dance
11 - Servicos Dance
12 - Syrtos Dance


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Posted By: Neoptolemos
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 21:07
Thanks for sharing DayI Thumbs Up

George Dalaras - Mes tou vosporou ta stena
On the Bosphorous
Can you repost the link? It doesn't seem to work for me.



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Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 07-Nov-2006 at 12:07
i am a pro a Turkish folk dance.folk dances in the black sea region is the same as Pontus Greek dance.(music of the dance is also the same)

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Posted By: Patrinos
Date Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 09:50
Kardesim kai Sunellines you have a good time here,e?

My little contribution with some http://hellasangels2.com/Rempetiko.html - Rebetika


Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 15:02
hey guys lissin to this Pontos Greek music especially people from Turkey should lissin to the voice alone, they will say from wich region it comes LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u27kh-JzIW0




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Posted By: Brainstorm
Date Posted: 17-Nov-2006 at 05:51
Originally posted by DayI



SİRTAKİ - GREEK FOLK MUSİC







LOL  Oh mine ,what a picture!
Dancing syrtaki and Parthenon's columns-ancient glory! LOL

Anyway ,real culture and people 's music are really interesting both in Greece and Turkey.
Mix and influence gave birth to excellent authentic expression through music.
Keep on the good work guys!Smile




Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 24-Nov-2006 at 13:08
I found an interesting article by Nikos Politis on how the zeybek dance turned into zeibekiko in the 20th Century:
 

NIKOS POLITIS

 

 

The Zeibekiko dance: a unique example of a Greek folk dance of the 20th century, originating from Turkish Zeybek dance patterns

 

by Nikos Politis [Athens]

 

I think there is no person in Turkey that would not have heard of the Zeybek Dances. There is certainly also no person in Greece that would not have heard of the Zeibekiko Dance. In this presentation I will try to point out the relation between the two dances and the peculiarities of the Greek version. For reasons of better understanding, I will be using the term Zeybek dance (or dances) for the Turkish original and the term Zeibekiko for the Greek dance that has been associated with the rebetiko songs genre.

 

As we know, the Turkish Zeybek dance is a family of dances rather than a single dance. It is said to be at home with the Zeybek tribes that are native (or probably immigrated there) of the western part of Turkey, especially in the mountain regions of the Aydin area, but it had spread out and became popular among the populations of the broader area, down to Izmir and beyond. Today of course, one can find the dance practically everywhere in Turkey as one of the most well known and popular national dances of the country.

 

I shall not enter into details but just for the purpose of our orientation I shall highlight some aspects. The characteristic original rhythmic pattern of the dance belongs to the nine beats to the bar rhythms, that can be divided 2 2 2 3 , 2 2 3 2 , 2 3 2 2 , 3 2 2 2 or in a more complicated pattern of 8 8 2. The dance can be performed by one dancer (solo) or one or more pairs of dancers, dancing in a circle. In Turkey 8 beats to the bar metres can sporadically also be found. For the purposes of this paper only the traditional Zeybek dances are examined, not the more or less choreographed versions that may be performed today by folk dance ensembles, involving a large number of men and in some cases women dancing together.

 

Contrary to the Turkish approach, the Greek Zeibekiko dance is not considered a folk dance, although it is probably more wide spread than many local folk dances of Greece. The reason is that we only consider “folk” dances belonging to the folkloric circle, dances that have been traditional in the country for hundreds of years or more. The Zeibekiko was born in the twentieth century and, what is more, it is an urban dance, not originally known in the rural regions where the “genuine” folk dances are expected to be at home.

 

Looking back into the Greek folklore we will find that the Zeybek dances were (and are) totally unknown in mainland Greece as well as in the majority of the islands. Only exceptions are few islands very close to the Turkish coastline, from Thassos in the north to Rhodes in the south, going of course further down to Cyprus but also up north to Thrace. The explanation is obvious: before the military and political events of the beginning of the 20th century, that dramatically changed the ethnic map of the area as well as the relations of our two countries, contacts between islands and the neighbouring Turkish coast were very common and cultural influences natural. But the Zeibekiko dance of today is very popular all over Greece, from Corfu to the Dodecanese. How can this be explained?

 

As already indicated the Zeibekiko dance, together with Hassapiko, the other well known dance of today’s Greece, is typical of the Rebetiko era, that has indelibly stamped our musical history from the moment it started, beginning of the 1930s, until the late 1950s where its creative period stops, with the dances living on until today. A very brief introduction into this important musical evolution is necessary at this point.

 

Before the military and political happenings already mentioned, a big city of the eastern Aegean Sea had developed and maintained a remarkably flourishing musical life. Izmir of course, where the Greek speaking orthodox community had managed to create an interesting mix of oriental and western cultural elements that made up what is known today as “The Smyrna school” music. After the war events, millions of people populating not only Izmir but the broader coastal region of Asia Minor were forced to immigrate into Greece, including of course the full potential of the Izmir based musicians, the ones that survived, that is. So the Smyrna School continued its activity in Athens now, with a success rate never encountered before. This music certainly had an oriental flavour, mixed with some western elements as already mentioned. It is perhaps helpful to listen to an example typical of this era.

 

The typical orchestra of the time featured instruments like violin, kanun or santour, oud, lute etc. At the beginning of the 1930s the vast majority of the production of the Greek record industry was created by precisely these musicians and interpreters; everything else followed at a distance.

 

These “Smyrna School” songs included rhythms and dances typical in Smyrna and in the classical oriental music of Istanbul, Tsiftetelli, Karsilama, zeybek rhythms in different versions etc. But the relatively small time bracket of less than two decades when this music flourished, is not enough to explain the popularity of Zeibekiko as encountered today.

 

It is about then, when a small group of non-Smyrna originating young musicians formed a band and started performing in public and recording musical records. The leader was the legendary Markos Vamvakaris from the island of Syros, central Aegean, and three more musicians, all from the broader Aegean region. They all were based in Piraeus, the port of Athens, and all played string instruments with plectrum: Markos on the bouzouki, an instrument long established in mainland Greece, accompanied by baglamas, the smaller brother of bouzouki, and by a guitar.

 

Markos, who also composed the songs, had managed to merge two styles: the Asia minor influence which he knew very well, living very close to the newly created low level neighbourhoods for the tens of thousands of refugees in the Piraeus outskirts and – the bouzouki style created by him and the group. Very soon they became the stars of the record industry and the old Smyrna style rapidly gave place to the songs we know today as rebetiko.

 

And now we come to the point of interest for our paper: from all the rhythms and dances typical of the Smyrna school (cifte telli, kassapiko, carsilama, abtal zeybek etc.) Markos concentrated on two dances: Hassapiko and Zeibekiko. The latter however was his favourite. How come?

 

In his autobiography Markos remembers:

 

“During Carnival on Syros, we had the ‘Zeybek’ happenings. Turkish dances from Polis (Istanbul), Asia Minor, Thrace. Zeibekiko, Hassapiko, Serviko, Arapiko. Up to fourty people gathered together to prepare. Two months before, the dancing school would open and those not already familiar learned how to dance. They would also make suitable expensive costumes, pure silk shirts and heavy tissues. They would all pay twenty, thirty drachmas for the preparations: dance lessons, costume and the Laterna that would play for us to dance. Then, on Carnival days, we would go out performing. With heavy overcoats, heavy leather belts carrying all kinds of swords, knifes etc. that would be used when dancing. Nice things, I can tell you. And I had become an expert in Zeibekiko, which we were dancing as solo performance. We then danced two or three together on the Hassapiko, more on Serviko and our two Araps on Tsifteteli. But most of all I liked the Zeibekiko, even as a very joung boy I would dance it. Falling on the knees, the swords cross over on the ground, swivelling around, I would dance”.

 

It is clear that here we have a typical Carnival performance, a happening also

confirmed by an independent, purely scientific publication of the beginning of the century, where the “Zeybek” Carnival activities of Syros are described in exactly the manner Markos narrates of. We do not know exactly how and when the Zeybek and Hassapiko happenings arrived on Syros but we know that in the 19th Century the come and go from the Aegean islands to Smyrna was very frequent. However, the fact that all this happened during Carnival festivities is very important. It confirms that these dances (Hassapiko, Zeibekiko etc.) were not familiar within the Syros community but represented the “strange” and “exotic” element necessary for the Carnival performances, where one tries to imitate something he is not, something extraordinary and not an everyday activity. We also note that they were dancing to tunes from the Laterna, a sort of automatic piano, imported from Istanbul, since apparently the local musicians, who would otherwise be only too happy to play for people to dance, were not familiar with the tunes necessary for the performance.

 

By the time, several years later, that Markos encounters the newcomers from Asia Minor with their music and dances, he recognises the patterns of Zeibekiko and Hassapiko and realises that, not only does he like them but he is still a good dancer, too. So it appears as the most natural thing for him to take advantage of this and present a large repertoire of Zeibekiko pieces to the public.

 

We must stress here that Markos literally led the way, he established the new song genre and not without reason he has been named the “Patriarch” of Rebetiko. All the big names of Rebetiko that followed, have hang on him to develop the genre further. So his favourite dance, the Zeibekiko, has become (together with Hassapiko) the dominant rhythms of the rebetiko.

 

In the beginning, Markos has predominantly used the form which he himself calls the “abtaliko Zeibekiko”, that is the 2 2 2 3 pattern in all its variants. He also uses the 18 / 16 pattern sporadically, but in a rather quick tempo.

 

SOUND SAMPLE:

 

 

A small sample from an early Markos recording of a Zeibekiko in 2 2 2 3 pattern (Alaniaris, by Markos Vamvakaris, recorded 1934).

 

SOUND SAMPLE:

 

 

And a further one in 8 8 2 (or 18 / 16) pattern (Karadouzeni, by Markos Vamvakaris, recorded 1932).

 

The audience, in the beginning mainly Asia Minor refugees, recognise these patterns and dance their favourite steps, be it the Karsilama pattern or the classical zeybek patterns that they knew from their homelands in the western Turkish coast. Gradually, local Greeks from the mainland, not aware of the specific step patterns, try to imitate and a new dance is born: the Zeibekiko. A dance performed solo, by one dancer at a time, usually the one who has “ordered” the piece and will pay the musicians, a dance which is at home not in the central market place of the village but in the taverns of the city. The dancer will not bother if he knows little about the steps: he improvises, and new dance patterns start to form. The older 2 2 2 3 pattern gradually gives way to the 8 8 2 pattern, which becomes more and more popular. The dance tempo decreases with time, so that in the postwar era we have very slow and heavy Zeibekiko pieces, typical of the final form of rebetiko songs. We now have the urban Zeibekiko of the cities, starting of course with Piraeus and Athens, and it also has a name: Peiraiotikos Zeibekikos.

 

SOUND SAMPLE:

 

 

An example from the year of 1951 (Oso varia ein’ ta sidhera, by Georgos Mitsakis, recorded 1951).

 

All this started in the early 1930s, as already indicated. It continued in taverns and cafes in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Then, as already mentioned, the Rebetiko style gradually starts changing, as society changes too, and the experts place the end of the rebetiko era around the end of the ‘50s. But Zeibekiko goes on, with songs continuing being written even today. Of course, critics would say that today’s Zeibekiko is different than what it was perhaps fifty years before, but the important thing is that it is still there.

 

Thus, an originally ritual traditional dance from the mountains, belonging to the Zeybek family of dances, native in western Turkey and associated with war making techniques, gives birth to Zeibekiko, a Greek urban folk dance developed and cultivated in the big cities of Greece in the 20th century, centred around the personal expression of the dancer rather than the society, in a totally free choreographic environment. A dance born, developed and standardised in a time span probably less than half a century, but still much loved and performed in Greece and abroad, wherever Greeks get together, nowadays emancipated from the rebetiko song genre to stand on its own feet. And, most important: an evolution that has been left to develop entirely on its own, without any scholar or commercial intervention. A social and choreographical example of which I do not know a similar case anywhere in the world.


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Athens, 1942.  Worked as an Electronic Engineer until recently. Hobbyist musician on strings (Bouzouki, Lute).  Followed extensive lessons on Byzantine Music at the Simon Karras School, Athens. Researcher on traditional music of Greece in collaboration with the Dora Stratou Dance Theatre and the Institute of Rebetology (London).

Istanbul Musical Seminars

1 October 2005

 

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Posted By: Sean_85
Date Posted: 25-Nov-2006 at 19:11
That was a very interesting article Kotumeyil, really answers a lot of questions! I haven't been on here for a while and it's great to see this topic is still going. I'm actually from Australia but my mother is Greek background I would love to go to both Greece and Turkey to really live and feel this music and see it being performed.


Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 03-Jan-2007 at 10:22
Two zeybek dances by a talented young man:
 
Kostak Zeybegi:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zYqgHkle4&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zYqgHkle4&mode=related&search=
 
İnce Hava Zeybegi:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WiZvvEb210&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WiZvvEb210&mode=related&search=


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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 04-Jan-2007 at 16:42
Upon request, harmandali zeybek on youtube:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8boVuWK4_Y#GU5U2spHI_4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8boVuWK4_Y#GU5U2spHI_4


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Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 16-Jan-2007 at 16:12
Jeniffer Lopez dances harmandali zeybegiTongue:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXd8MgVByU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXd8MgVByU


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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 17-Apr-2007 at 06:43
Softer - modern, but ill add it here and bump the thread

Sfakianakis (one of my prefered singers)

O-aetos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--4EbQ_f1QE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--4EbQ_f1QE

GenethliaThumbs%20Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z5XSh6St9A - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z5XSh6St9A



and more pasxalis terzis

(love this song for months id play it very loud and sing while driving)Cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXyJDtLmmRg&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXyJDtLmmRg&mode=related&search=

Parastratima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SkAEfdYodc - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SkAEfdYodc

joint singing effort for me and fiance (she loves this next song)

Den Thelo Tetoious Filous (live sound is poor)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjjxsJar1c&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjjxsJar1c&mode=related&search=

maybe not zeibekiko but definety what i consider 'Greek blues' anyway check out the crying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yIVfBHRZQ4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yIVfBHRZQ4


edit: my dad is shedding a tear or two right now, because i showed him.Cry

Terzi is the best




Posted By: kotumeyil
Date Posted: 19-Apr-2007 at 10:27
Thank you Leonidas for these beautiful songs. This is a really sad song in Turkish sung by Stelios Kazantzidis - Makber (from the poem of great Turkish poet, Abdulhak Hamit Tarhan): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX77-O09JC0&mode=related&search= - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX77-O09JC0&mode=related&search=

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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2007 at 05:49
thanks kotumeyil, different language familiar sound.

is the lyrics posted in the comments complete?


Darkness prevails everywhere
Yet that place shining
Oh God! Is it the west or the grave
(shall I go to the west or stay where the grave is )

Her grave has become a tomb made from flowers
Open your arms, I am your beloved.


may i add, thats the first youtube addition that is friendly between Greeks and Turks. normally that website is the front-line battle ground!




Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2007 at 06:05
Stelios Kazantzidis rocks! Thumbs%20Up 
 
I liked this song as well:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRwuDdqbAzk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRwuDdqbAzk



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