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Η αμπελοκουτσούρα.
(2016-06-08)
"The Grapevine" is one of the most characteristic of the island's folk songs. The text is a hymn to the grapevine and the wine it yields. This is only natural, for the vine has been associated with Ikaria since antiquity, ...
Είμ' εργάτης του λιμένος.
(2016-06-09)
This is a working class love song. The verses are rhyming couplets in fifteen syllable iambic meter, the second line augmented by the (oriental) interjection - aman aman - and repeated. While the melodic unit for the first ...
Ανήμερα την Πασχαλιά και στον καλό του λόγο.
(2016-06-02)
Ικαριώτικος (βιολί).
(2016-06-09)
This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ...
Dek se culo i em videlu.
(2016-06-13)
Para berit kiselec.
(2016-06-13)
Καγκελευτός χορός.
(2016-11-29)
Ηφάς αρνί κι ηρνήθης με.
(2016-06-08)
The text of this love song with its characteristic refrain is in local Ikarian dialect. In each verse the melody covers a rhyming couplet in fifteen syllable iambic meter, followed by a refrain.
Other characteristic ...
Απελπισία με πιάνει όταν σε δω.
(2016-11-25)
Δως του, δως του πέρα.
(2016-05-08)
This sung version of the Ikariotiko dance has a "carpe diem" theme, painting a picture of the inevitable end of each human life and encouraging dancing and making merry.
The song is a strophic composition, each verse ...