From the musical The Rebetikats 

Recorded with audiobridge

Μία Λυπημένη Χηραγάτα -με λαούτο, βιολα, βιολί

Από το δράμα Οι Ρεμπετογάτες. Το παιδί Σταυράκι τραγουδάει στο δρομάκι οταν γνορίζει την Μαρικάκι


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Σταυράκι τραγουδάει Γατοπούλα Στο Χωριό με Τουρκια μπαγλαμά

Το Τσαχπίνικο Τραγούδι Της Ντούργκα Μαρί

Darbari

Act 1 Scene 1 of the shadow puppet play The Rebetikats

Rebetikats Act 1 Scene1

Act 1 Scene 2 audio of the shadow puppet play The Rebetikats

The Rebetikats Act 1 Scene 2

In the shadow puppet play The Rebetikats, the big tom cat Agapios Tomcatboulis sings this song to impress the dapper Durga Marie.

Gatosyriani

Needs work. Still in draft. It's a kind of Joy Division style rendition of Syrtos Tou Koutsoureli by the master himself, Giorgis Koutsoureli.

One Cat Audience

Syrtos tou Koutsoureli - Kritika

In Tsanakale, they're killing me, Mother, but don't cry, because I died for my country and for freedom. Tsanakale is the province where ancient Troy rests, as do the bones of many Greeks and Turks in this traditional song recorded by the Rebetikats in my basement. Small but tender tribute to Ozzy and Black Sabbath with some "War Pigs" bassline and guitar lead.

Mesa Sto Tsanakale - Paradosiaka

Insight - Joy Division cover

Yianni Mou To Mantili Sou is a Greek folk song from Epiros, a northern region of mainland Greece with intensely beautiful chilled out klarino and Sta Dio, a down tempo, intimate dance for Greek communities. This song echoes pains of immigration and leaving everyone you love behind, as my father did in the 1950s,which I still don't understand--except that Greece was in and out of civil war, and the Communist party was hunting my grandfather. Other than a young man's safety, and perhaps the hunger that my father knew throughout his childhood, I don't know which promise America made that lured Baba to Ellis Island. Having met my grandmother, my yiayia, I can attest that there was never anything in the United States that could attempt to compete with her.

Yianni Gataki Mou To Mantili Sou - Ipirotika

Αχι, μια λυπημένη χήρα γά-
γάτα πλέεισε μια θάλασσα 
Η θάλασσα από δάκρυα
οι στεναγμοί της τα πανιά
φυσούν τα πανιά μακριά

oh, a sad widow cat
sails on a sea of tears
her sighs glow the sails
far away

Oh, we pay the ferryman
we give our voices
to Xaro from the River
we shall not return

Αχι, τον πλοίαρχο πληρώνουμε
τις φωνές μας εμείς δίνουμε
πληρώνουμε τον πλοίαρχο
τον Χάρο απ’ το ποταμο
δεν θα επιστρέψουμε

Sad Cat Island Song - Nisiotika - 1st take- Mia Lipimeni Xira Gata

This is a cover of the Socratis Malamas song which he often performed with Xaris Alexiou, whose toenails I am not worthy to clip.

3 Cat Audience

Gia Tin Ellada

The Rebetikats is my attempt to balance a hunger for something pure with that portion of my chromosomes that is able to play its counterpart's heritage. I guess you'd have to meet my mom and dad: the Greek came from him but ALL the music comes from my first guru, my beloved MITERA! The Rebetikats speak the story of the Smyrna refugees who fled genocide and came to an unwelcoming "homeland" but were too Turkish for the mainstream, religious right of Greece. Durga Marie Eustaquia Babilonia is my cat, and Baba Eustaquio Eskenazy is her father in this tale of tails. Along their odyssey they meet and adopt Giannakis Gatakis and his aderfakis (little brother) Stavrakis. In Crete they meet the laouto playing Antonios Leonakis who teaches them some Nissiotika, the delightful folk music of the island cats.

The Rebetikats

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