Traditional Music: "Experience and longing" by Stamatis Makris
The work and the
recordings of the teacher Stamatis Makris
(from the village Migdalia, Gortynia) promotes and diffuses the traditional music
heritage of Peloponnesos and Arcadia. The significant contribution of S. Makris to the
preservation of the Greek traditional music consists of 21 cassetes and 21 Compact disks
containing original regordings of 300 traditional songs, followed by a book including
rhymes and notes of hystorical and folkloric context. 200 songs among them where
transcribed and recorded for the first time. S. Makris is the performer (instruments:
clarinet, violin, lute, oblong folk drum) and producer of all recorded musical pieces.
According to spesialists' comments, the value of his work relies on the fact that it
preserves the "authentic sound and rhyme" of the traditional greek music.
The
work of S. Makris (*) has been widely recognized by receiving many favorable comments and
critiques from personalities of the art, culture, government and politics.
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MP3
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And now, exclusively from our site, you can download 8 songs in MP3 format from the work of S. Makris! |
Note: To
listen to these songs you must use a program for reproduction of MP3 files.
We suggest the program Winamp
(*) S. Makris: Epameinonda 39, Tripoli, phone number: 03071-237555, 0944-577814
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