Music & Lyrics : Eden Ahbez (1908-1995)| American songwriter

first sung by Nat King Cole (1919-1965)
Released in 1948
Recorded in 1947 



piano| vocals arrangement : Labri Giotto



photo by Ray Metzker(1931-2014)| American Photographer 

Nature boy

Traditional song from East Anglia 


photo by Erlend Haarberg

piano,voice: Labrini Gioti (Labri Giotto)

Hares on the mountain

A traditional immigration - love lament  from Epirus, sung mainly polyphonic 

vocal rendition, nyckelharpa : Labrini Gioti
PAXOI MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019

Haritomeni Syntrofia

στίχοι, μουσική: Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης
Πρώτη Εκτέλεση: Θανάσης Ευγενικός, Μαρίκα Νίνου, Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης 
1950

πιάνο, τραγούδι: Λαμπρινή Γιώτη
(I do not own the rights of the picture)

Ο χωρισμός που μάντεψες

στίχοι,μουσική: Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης
1939
Πρώτη εκτέλεση: Ρίτα Αμπατζή, Στελλάκης Περπινιάδης

πιάνο, τραγούδι: Λαμπρινή Γιώτη

Απόψε να μη κοιμηθείς

rendition of the Irish traditional song "Rocks of Bawn"

voice: Labrini Gioti

recorded in Ballachulish, Highlands, Scotland 2017

Rocks Of Bawn

Cover of the song "agapi pou 'gines dikopo mahairi"


from the original motion picture soundtrack of the Greek movie "Stella"(1955),directed by Michalis Kakoyiannis

Music by Manos Hadjidakis
Lyrics by Michalis Kakoyiannis

(in the photo: Melina Merkouri,leading actress)


Cover by Labrini Gioti & George Tsimbouksis ensemble
Live /home recording
Philip Marinellis: sound equipment and engineering

Labrini Gioti: vocals, piano, arrangement
George Tsimbouksis: bouzouki, arrangement, mixing, mastering

Notes on the tune: The tune it is said to have been composed by Vasilis Tsitsanis, but the orchestration and legal rights belong to Manos Hadjidakis. 
The melody of the song is based on another earlier song called            " Trelos Tsiganos"(1947) composed by Vasilis Tsitsanis, although the legal rights belong to the main singer Ioanna Georgakopoulou.

NO CORYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED

Αγάπη που 'γινες δίκοπο μαχαίρι

Anathema ton aitio, traditional love song from Lesvos island.

Arrangement, impro, variation (1st draft ) on the piano by Labrini Gioti

Anathema ton aitio  | 1st draft impro variation on the piano

Traditional Polyphonic Bulgarian song (1st verse)

voices/looper: Labrini Gioti (Labri Giotto)

sound: George Tsimbouksis

Razvivai

Riverman by Nick Drake(arrangement)

a miniature sketch 
the Norwegian title means : chasing echoes 

piano/ composition :Labri Giotto (Labrini Gioti)

Jager ekko

a blackbird singing in an urban environment 

recorded in:
Nea Ionia
Athens 
Greece

blackbird singing| sounds of the city

Labrini Gioti Livieratou - former artistic name Labri Giotto ) is a Greek performer, teacher, radio producer and ethnomusicologist. 

She has graduated from Palini Musical Highschool, holds a Diploma in Classical piano from the National Conservatory of Athens and is an alumna BA Music Studies from the American College of Greece. 

In 2006, she went in Ireland to study  MA in Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance (University of Limerick) with the aid of a scholarship from the Attica Tradition Foundation.Her MA thesis was: “Sean-Nós singing style from the West Cork Gaeltacht area”, where she concentrated on the singing style of Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Elisabeth Cronin.

She has been taught traditional music & different styles by Elaine Cormican, Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin, Deirdre Scanlon, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin ,Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Mamak Khadem,Ross Daly, Åsa & Esbjörn Hogmark, Ross Daly, Kelly Thoma, Martha Mavroidi,Mamak Khadem, Veronica Doubleday, John Bailey, Johanna Bölja, Vicki Swan.

She has been a professional musician since 2000 performing in music stages, pubs & concerts all over Greece, as well as teaching piano, singing and theory in Ireland and Greece for more than 14 years. 
Between 2007-2008 she was conducting Greek traditional and byzantine music workshops at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance(University of Limerick) at the MA Ethnomusicology and MA Chant and Ritual song classes.

She has performed at the Acropolis Museum, Cycladic Museum, ERT( 65 years for the 3rd classical program),Athens Celtic Music Festival, Festival Fantasticon,Irish Wings and Paxos Music Festival, as well as in several music stages in Greece, Ireland(IWAMD, Bewley's Cafe Theater), Sweden (Esi Tobo) and Scotland(Cowdray Hall, Blue Lamp) .

She is a pioneer in promoting Celtic and Nordic music in Greece, teaching and performing since 1996(Curfa Gaelic Nordic Choir & seminars).Since 2017-2021, she was the first Greek nyckelharpist in Greece and one of the founders of the Athens Celtic Music Festival (2014- 2019).

The ITMA (Irish Traditional Music Archive) cataloged her in their archives as the first Greek who sang in the Irish (Gaelic) language,  Sean-nós .

In October 2019, she was accepted at the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera alternative stage as a nyckelharpa player.

In January 2022, she will teach the Intercultural Choir (Polyphonic song of Europe)at the Global Music Academy in Berlin, as well as traditional singing from Greece, Celtic & Nordic countries.

Labrini Gioti

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