Mórtika. Rare vintage recordings from a Greek underworld
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Arki Records ARKOCD008 (2005) | world
| “ | The word 'mórtis' in Greek underworld slang refers to a person who is both tough and elegant, as it were the cool bearer of knife and suit, a counterpart to the 'apache' of Paris. Mórtika simply means songs about male 'mórtes' and female 'mórtisses'. This CD holds a collection of urban songs and instrumentals centred on this theme, recorded commercially between 1927 and 1946 by Greek musicians in Greece, Germany and the USA. (Track 16, undateable, and track 21, privately recorded in 2000, are exceptions.) All, in conventional terminology, might be considered as belonging to the 'rembetica' genre, but we who have compiled and produced this record would rather see them emancipated from the straightjacket of genre categorisation. Apart from the intrinsic, moving musical quality of the performances, this compilation is distinguished by the rarity, and often excellent condition of the originals, and by the quality of Ted Kendall's remastering.
Listening through Mórtika, you will make the acquaintance of some of the central figures of the period, both instrumentalists, singers and songwriters, and become familiar with some of their variety of vocal styles and techniques, their idiomatic use of various plucked, hammered and bowed string instruments, and the accordion, and also with their song lyrics, which treat of typical 'underworld' themes such as drugs, love, theft, murder, prison, and having a good time. All this music is associated, one way or another, with subcultures of outsiders, whether at home or in imposed or self-chosen exile, and whether they represent the urban musical culture of Asia Minor and Istanbul/Constantinople, the local tradition of Piraeus subcultural music, or the Greek musical culture of the Greek-American population | ” |
01 - Ioánnis 'Jack' Halikiás (Jack Gregory) bouzouki - To Mistírio (The Mystery) instr. [4:22]
02 - Yiórgos Katsarós - 'Erxome ton toíxo toíxo (I creep along the walls) [4:46]
03 - Spaxánis - Kalé mána den mporó (Oh, mother I can't stand it) [3:19]
04 - Andónis Diamantídis 'Dalgás' - Ntou nthou (Dou dou) [3:12]
05 - Frangískos Zouridákis · D.Tsakíris - To Ntaxtíri (The Dachtiri) [3:13]
06 - Hariláos Piperákis (Kritikós) - To Toust (The Toust) [3:59]
07 - Kóstas Roúkounas - Xarámisa ta Niáta mou (I wasted my youth) [3:07]
08 - Márkos Vamvákaris - O Isovítis (The Lifer) [3:21]
09 - Andónios 'Papadzís' · accordion - O Mpóxoris (The Boxoris) instr. [4:06]
10 - K. Kostís - Toúto to Kalokairáki (This Summer) [4:15]
11 - Maríka Papagíka - Dervísis (The Dervish) [3:36]
12 - Pol - Meraklís - I Xasiklídes (The hash smoker) [3:05]
13 - Ríta Abádzi - Mes' tou Tzabíkou ton Teké (At Tsambíkous teké) [3:17]
14 - Márkos Vamvákaris - Mórtissa Xasikloú (Hash-smoking Mortissa) [3:20]
15 - Stellákis Perpiniádis - Iroíni ke Mavráki (Heroin & Hashish) [3:06]
16 - Ioánnis Halikiás (Jack Gregory) bouzouki - Kseftílis (The loser) instr. - dialogue [3:03]
17 - Sotíris Gavalás - Stou Bezesténi tin Avlí (In The Bezesteni Yard) [4:15]
18 - Dimítris Góngos 'Bayiadéras' - Kapnouloúdes (Hash-smoking chicks) [2:49]
19 - Andónis 'Dalgás' - Oi Avántes tou Sofér (The cab-driver's perks) [4:09]
20 - Yiórgos Katsarós - Dervisáki [3:09]
21 - Níkos Vráchnas - Káto ap' ti Skála tou Papá (Down by the Priest's Jetty) [2:57]
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