23. Andreas Tsaousis – Kanis Giatros den borese (Decca – Greece, 1965)       Clarinet: Panagiotis Kokontinis 24. Dimitris Zachos – Ime ftochos ma timios (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1966)        Clarinet: Giannis Vasilopoulos 25. Giorgos Lavkas – Solo tsifteteli (Columbia – Greece, 1966) 26. Poly Panou – An anixis tin kardia mou (Bentetta – Greece, 1966) 27. Manos Papadakis & Litsa Diamandi w/ Vassiliadis – Ego perifana gia sena milao (Odeon – Greece, 1967) 28. Foteini Mavraki – Esi gia ola ftes (Polyphone – Greece, 1968)        Accordion: Kostas Stamatakis 29. Lefteris Kolemidis – Potakas ke tsifteteli (Greek Voice Records – Greece, 1968) 30. Vassilis Vassiliadis – Tsifteteli 1969 (solo Farfisa) (Parlophone – Greece, 1968) 31. Vassilis Boemis – Bre kalos to Gianni (Sonata – Greece, 1969) 32. Neratzopoulos Stratos – To tsifteteli tis egis (solo Farfisa) (Panivar – Greece, 1969)

11. Georgos Koros – Tsifteteli diplochordo (Columbia – Greece, 1959) 12. Takis Lavidas – Hrisses pennies (solo cymbalom) (Parlophone – Greece, 1959) 13. Stelios Kazantzidis – Oglan oglan kalk gidelim (Columbia –Greece, 1960) 14. Sofia Kollitiri – Kouklitsa Pechnidiara (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1961)       Clarinet: Giannis Vasilopoulos 15. Manolis Papageorgiou – Syrto-tsifeteteli (Music-Box – Greece, 1961) 16. Stelios Lazarou – Diplochordo Tsiftetelli (Nina Records US – 1961)    17. Mariana Hatsopoulou – Kapse me na gino stachti (Odeon – Greece, 1961)        Violin: Stelios Lazarou 18. Katy Grey – Ti na foresso (His Master’s Voice – Greece, 1962) 19. Giorgos Totis & Toula Retsina – Tou bouzouki ta telia (Lilly – Greece, 1960-63?) 20. Vangelis Perpiniadis – To bouzouki mou echi kefia (Parlophone – Greece, 1963) 21. Ria Norma – Se kanoun ke ponas (Odeon – Greece, 1964) 22. Takis Lavidas – Glykocharagma (solo cymbalom) (Baladeur – Greece, 1964)

TRACKLIST 1. Panagis Charalampos – Den mou meine pleon zoi (Parlophone – Greece, 1933)     Clarinet: Nikos Karakostas 2. Rita Abadzi – Gazeli neva sabah (Orthophonic – recorded in Athens, 1934)     Qanun: Lambros Savaidis      Violin: Dimitrios Semsis 3. Anna Chrysafi – Chorepse to tsifteteli (Odeon – Greece 1952) 4. Kemanî Âma Recep ¬– Çiftetelli Taksim (Columbia – Turkey, year?) 5. Şükrü Tunar – Oyun Havasi - Ciftetelli (RCA Argentina – Recorded in Turkey, year?) 6. Teodoros Kavourakis – Tetoia koukla ke tsachmina (Nina Records US – year?) 7. Katy Petraki – Och sebda pou echo (Nina Records – 1958) 8. Giota Lidia & Manolis Aggelopoulos – Ise si to splachno mou (Nina records US – 1958) 9. Giota Lidia – I Tsiganes ki' i tsigani (Columbia – Greece, 1958)     Clarinet: Athanasios Haligiannis 10. Panos Gavalas – Kane mou to kefi (Odeon – Greece, 1958)

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Excerpt from Don Cherry & Terry Riley Tambourinen Session, Copenhagen, 1970 (Anökumena, 2014) 
Dream House - La Monte Young (Shandar, 1974)
Excerpt from Music in the Key of Om – Jack DeJohnette (Golden Beams, 2003)
The Feast Dance · Chaino and his African Percussion Safari (Omega Records, 1959)
Excerpt from Suling Pereret cassette (Bali 886, Year Unknown) 886) 
Balia – Saprin Ojo Lalove Ensemble (Gugus Gema, 2020)

Drone Jazz, Bamboo Flute, and Blaring Trumpets — Mix by Radio is a Foreign Country

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A condensed sound imprint from a trip to India, featuring raw and remixed field recordings from the Western Ghats, Mapusa, and Mumbai by Italian sound explorer and designer Francesco Fonassi. The result is a patient, poetic, slow radio vibe, like something akin to a homemade mantra machine, where Hindu prayers, chants, and bird songs mingle with electric forests, nocturnal reverb chambers, and buzzing loop-poetry. This is a remixed version originally produced for Radio Arte Mobile’s weekly sound selections curated by Lou Pappagallo and Svet Lana.

Mantra Machine (Western Ghats / Mapusa / Mumbai) (RIAFC092)

Grof Folklore presents a selection of contemporary Albanian folk and synth bangers. This mix originally aired on Radio WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands). Learn more about Robert Kroos and his projects, including Grof Folklore & Duckfood, here: https://duckfood.nl

Albanian Synth - Grof Folklore (RIAFC096)

A mesmerizing mixtape from Greek musician Tasos Stamou. Bouncing back and forth between his recent retro Balkan folk-wave album for the Akuphone label and some of the styles and sounds that inspired it. Vintage combo keyboards, a folk instrument used in a contemporary context, long sustained krautrock and beyond.

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"Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969)” by Souma Records is the first part of a selection of Greek and Turkish tsiftetéli – or çiftetelli – songs and instrumentals, some in Greek Rebetiko and Laikó style, others in the oriental folk tradition of Greece and Asia Minor led by Roma musicians.

For Greeks dancing tsiftetéli is a social thing, sometimes performed by couples. During the 60s and 70s in Greece and the US, live Laikó bands and oriental ensembles were often accompanied by a belly dancer, although this was not the case when the style first crept into the Greek repertoire when the repatriated musicians from Asia Minor expressed their pain and loss through this music. Mainly during the 60s the gloomy lyrics disappeared from the tsiftetéli and it morphed into a beguiling dance. Modern belly dancers hardly ever dance to tsiftetéli anymore but prefer instead the typical dance routines (raks sharqi) from the Middle East. The magic of tsiftetéli lies within its hypnotic grooves, intoxicating melodic scales and the extreme musicianship of the performers.
 
The term tsiftetéli derives from the turkish word çifte-telli, which means ‘double-stringed’ (diplóchordo in Greek) and refers to an authentic violin technique (cfr tracks 4,11,16 & 17) of running two strings through the same nut slot of the instrument creating tautophony (two strings playing at the same pitch) or tuning them an octave apart. This spaced-out effect generates a more oriental and sensual feel.

All tracks are recorded from Fred Kramer's (Souma Records, BE) collection of shellac and vinyl records he excavated over the last 10 years in Greece, Egypt and the US.

Tracklist in the comments below. 

Check out more from Souma Records here:: https://soumarecords.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://soundcloud.com/soumarecords

Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969) - Fred Kramer (Souma Records) (RIAFC100)

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"Long-time NTS Radio crew member and host of Are You Before radio imprint, Jamie Burke presents a mix made whilst observing the lights of empty buses passing by a familiar road in his hometown in Scotland. Sounds exploring malaise and nostalgia. including Mike Cooper, Rene Hell, Pink Reason, Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted and Phil Stuck (forthcoming on Seance Centre)."

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