The Greek traditional songs came into being hand in hand with the events they describe. Every time something stirred or shocked the people, they?d make a song to express how it made them feel. So it?s only natural that it was wars, battles and deaths that most often instilled the desire to make a song; a song expressing the people?s pain and its admiration for the heroic men and women touched by glory. The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as lessons for the future.
Tracks:
CD1
1. Forty Brave Young Lads - Thrace
2. When the City Was Founded - Crete
3. The Swallows of Vlachia - Crete
4. They Took the City - Macedonia
5. Old Nun A-Cooking - Thrace
6. Great Joy Across the Land - Crete
7. How Joyous Are the Mountains - Peloponnese
8. When You Dream of Brave Deeds - Macedonia
9. A Maid Decided - Peloponnese
10. In the Heart of Kalavryta - Peloponnese
11. Katsantonis - Epirus
12. Rock of Monemvasia - Peloponnese
13. Girls of Kastoria - Macedonia
14. What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree? - Central Greece
15. Androutsos' Mother - Central Greece
16. On Trikorfa Peak - Peloponnese
17. On Trikorfa Peak - Peloponnese
18. A Great Command - Macedonia
CD2
1. Forty Klephts Are We
2. I Passed by One Saturday - Central Greece
3. Great Joy Across the Land - Peloponnese
4. Hey Mountains of Grevena - Macedonia
5. K?tsos' Mother - Central Greece
6. Lament - Epirus
7. All the Captains' Women - Epirus
8. At Tseritsiana?s Well - Epirus
9. I Passed by a Day or Two Ago - Peloponnese
10. All the Castles I Have Seen - Peloponnese
11. Turks Hold Your Horses
12. Tartar with a Chain - Peloponnese
13. Nine Villages They Razed - Macedonia
14. Up Siatista Way - Macedonia
15. Captain Loukas - Macedonia
16. What Ails You, Poor Parnassos - Central Greece
17. The Captains of Tripoli - Peloponnese
