Kompania: Live! (CD)

Kompania

CD

CD (Compact Disc)

Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.

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Label:: Chara
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 2012
UPC/EAN:: 8714835099017
Erscheinungstermin:: 7.3.2013

How does the Maharaja song become the opening track on an album of Greek rembetika and Smyrna music? The fact is that in the ‘50s and ‘60s Greece’s popular music was very much influenced, inspired and captivated by Bollywood cinema and its soundtrack so it may actually be no wonder that Maharaja from the early ‘50s is on a rembetika album after all. But even with the Indian reference here, KOMPANÍA’s Rebétika – Smyrneïka From Athens brings me back to the koutouki atmosphere, an underground, cramped den with rembetika music, meze, retsina and great company.

This live album, however, is recorded in Belgium’s N9 Villa club and not in a Greek smoke-filled joint so maybe the reason the sound has this authentic Greek wisdom is because this same venue has hosted punk, jazz and a wide variety of anti-establishment music before. But back to the band – that’s what Kompanía means – and the characteristic depth of Katerina Tsiridou’s voice who, together with the two lead singers Dimitris Kranidas and Sotiris Papatragiannis and musicians Yiannis Kalafatelis and Nikos Protopapas, creates a truly vintage style rembetika album. Of course the reason the album has this quality not only in sound but in music as well is because all five musicians on board follow the same direction and they are simply brilliant at what they do. Their musicianship, harmony and synchronization are flawless and cool, as KOMPANÍA sticks to the traditional and original version of these songs. There are no surprises or modernizations here of these famous rembetika pieces which are composed and written by Toundas, Tsitsanis and Peristeris to mention a few. .

This album is a lovely introduction to some of the best known rembetika songs like Garsóna about the best waitress in the world who waters down the wine to earn a few extra quid; Misirlou and Of Amán about drinking and thus getting drunk, and Hatzí Baxés with references to the sweet doll from Thessaloniki, the baglama and Tsitsanis himself. Another point of trivia is that Katerina Tsiridou plays the baglama, check her out on youtube clips!