On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic, combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred ? or could do so one day ? however imaginative they seem. The CD contains rare and priceless songs with the authentic voices of ?old people?, which Domna recorded herself. For it was these sung tales of the fabulous and the fantastic that allowed the Greek people to combine the real with the supernatural and create songs relating tragedies ?for the overwhelming majority are tragic? which might once have occurred, or could one day.
Tracks:
CD1
1. A Trader Made His Way - Eastern Aegean
2. Four, Five, Nine Brothers - Epirus
3. The Dead Brother - Asia Minor
4. The Dead Brother - Eastern Thrace & Roumelia
5. A Maid Would Have Her Way - Propontis
6. The Song of Saint George - Propontis
7. Arta?s Bridge - Sporades
8. At Trichas? Bridge - Pontus
9. In Constantinople I Heard the News - Thrace
10. The Glass Well - Central Greece
11. Giorgi, They?re Ringing the Bells - Peloponnese
12. One Easter Day, One Sunday - Thrace
13. A Mother Has a Son - Thrace
14. I Passed by and Bade Good Day - Eastern Thrace & Roumelia
15. Little Apple Tree Perched on the Brink - Constantinople
16. On Saint George's Eve - Propontis
17. A Maid from Evrip? - Asia Minor
CD2
1. A Maid Was Singing - Propontis
2. A Maid Bidding Farewell - Crete
3. Dawn Glowed in the East - Propontis
4. A Maid from Vrontados - Asia Minor
5. Giannos and Vangelio - Epirus
6. As Long as the Shore - Propontis
7. No Father Had I - Eastern Thrace & Roumelia
8. A Prince Is to Be Wed - Propontis
9. With Child A-Mowing - Eastern Aegean
10. A Fair Maid Did Sing - Central Greece
11. Mavrianos and the King - Crete
12. Aroafnou - Cyprus
13. Fair Evgenoula - Thrace
14. Three Lords A-Sitting - Cappadocia / Konya
15. Yar Yar - Pontus
16. A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythrae) - Asia Minor
17. A Little Shorty (Skiathos) - Sporades
