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The Sunday Song – August 19th, 2018

Kale sy Panagia mou / Καλέ συ Παναγιά μου – Traditional song from the Aegean Sea

The song “Kale sy Panagia mou” is traditional in both lyrics and music from the area of Smyrna, Asia Minor and the surrounding Aegean Sea.

It is one of the most characteristic samples of the organic mixture between rhythms from the musical tradition from Smyrna and the islands of the Aegean Sea. It is a song where an orphan girl from Tsamadia, an area of Smyrna, pleads for the help of the Virgin Mary and Saint Foteini, the patron Saint of Smyrna. The rhythm is Balos from Smyrna.

The song became very famous in all areas from Greece when Giannis Parios recorded it in his Album “Ta nisiotika/Τα νησιώτικα (the island songs)” (1982). The album is considered to be the second best-selling album with Greek songs of all time, with sales estimated at 800.000.

It was also performed by the same artist in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

Today’s song is related to the Holiday of August 15th. On that day, the Greek Christian Orthodox church celebrates the Assumption of Mary. This day, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (latin: Madonna, Greek: Παναγία/ Panagia, means the most holy of all), is not a day of mourning for her loss, but a celebration of joy for the union of the Mother with her beloved Son, the blossoming of nature, the flood of emotions, and the return of people to their native land.

If you are looking for the liveliest time to be in Greece, Δεκαπενταύγουστος/ Dekapentavgoustos (August 15th) should definitely be on top of your list. But that is just the religious “excuse” for villages to be decorated, folklore festivals to be held, shows of traditional dances to be staged, and a festive atmosphere to be impatiently expected by Greeks and foreigners alike. This period hosts some of the greatest Panigiria (festivals).

Panigiria are set in town squares or next to a celebrating church. Each festivity includes tables of guests who partake in the local revelry. Every village serves up their local wine/drinks and delicacies to the sounds of live bands, which have most locals up and dancing from the time they arrive.

The formal religious ceremony is held with mass and prayers in the morning and in the evening focus shifts to food, wine, music and dancing. The essence of this celebration is that “all are welcome” and treated like family- participating body and soul in the commemoration.

What is 100% certain is that wherever you are in Greece on this national holiday, there will be a Panigiri somewhere nearby.

The island of Ikaria is regarded as the ‘Queen of Panigiria’. On August 15th, Lagkada hosts the biggest pangiri, where more than 3000 people, most of them young, are attending the festival that starts in midday and ends in the morning of the next day.

Here is a video of the preparations and the celebration for a Panigiri that took place in the small island of Thimena on August 11th.

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[everydaypanos]

"Ηλίας Βρεττός - Νησιώτικα Summer Tour(Dj StAiF's Club Edit 2013)" by STAiF

[jjba-fragmented-star]

A Part 5 OC who is a member of the Mafia La Nuova Costa. In the background Information there is a different timeline where he doesn't work for the Mafia.

La Nuova Costa, Giancarlo Castiglier, Domenico Castiglier and Salvatore Castiglier belongs to @cesca-untoldstories

Basic Information 

Name: Michalis Zannos

Namesake: Michalis Hatzigiannis(Cypriot Singer)

Aliases: Mike, Mickey, Mik, Zan

Stand: Lost Treasure(song by Onirama band)

Nationality: Greek

Age: 19(Part 5), 29(Part 6)

Gender: Male

Birthday: 23 March 1982

Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac: Aries/Dog

Height: 1,86 cm

Weight: 65 kg

Blood Type: A+

Occupation: Member of La Nuova Costa, Singer, formerly: Student in Ionian University/Department of Music Studies

Affiliations: La Nuova Costa

Relatives:

Stelios Zannos/Impostor Captain Tennille(Father)

Ariadni Lekka/Zannos(Mother)

Personality:

Optimistic, Honest, Loyal, Passionate, Responsible, Prideful, Self-centered, Short-tempered, Impatient, Sensitive 

Likes:

Crab Salad, Music, walks in the beach, Helping his Mother, Children, Surfing, Swimming

Dislikes:

His mother and children being hurt, Cigarettes/Smoking, Pollution of Oceans and Marine life, Alcohol, Pineapple

Background Information: 

La Nuova Costa Timeline:

- Michalis was born in 23 March of 1982 in Kerkyra, Greece. He had a good relationship with his parents.

-His father, Stelios(Impostor Captain Tennille), worked originally as a lifeguard in a beach of Kerkyra and made sure the people where safe when they where swimming. He taught Michalis how to swim when he was 5.

-His mother, Ariadni, worked as music teacher in a primary school and teached him how to play piano and guitar. From then on his passion for music grew and dreamed to become a singer.

-In August of 1988, Michalis and his parents went in a vacation in Cairo, Egypt. One night the family was returning in their hotel when a tall blonde muscular man(DIO) came for Stelios and shot him with an arrow in his chest, Michali's father told his wife and son to run to save their lifes and the blond man takes him away. Stelios was never seen or found after this encounter.

-After the disappearance of his father Michalis hides his sadness under an optimistic and arrogant mask and in the age of 10(1992) his stand, Lost Treasure, manifests after an encounter with some bullies in his school.

-In 2000 he enters the Ionian University to study Music in order to make his dream reality of becoming a singer, but he stops his studies after he mother becomes seriously ill and tries to find jobs to earn money to get her into a hospital.

-He doesn't find any jobs in Kerkyra and goes in Italy to find while his mother stays in the care of some relatives. When he arrives in Italy in a town close to Puglia he finds a broken car and some masked people pointing their guns to a silver haired man, without thinking Michalis uses his stand, Lost Treasure, by spitting a thick sticky substance by trapping the masked people and saving the silver haired man. 

-The man, who Michalis saved, introduces himself as Giancarlo who is a Gangster working in La Nuova Costa and he knows about his stand, as a thank you he invites Michalis to join the Mafia. He brings him infront of Domenico Castiglier, boss of La Nuova Costa, who sends him to a mission to prove his worth and loyalty by killing/catching a traitor of La Nuova Costa which Michalis accepts willing.

-Michalis joins La Nuova Costa, earns money to help his sick mother and make his dream into reality to become a singer.

Fragmented Star AU/EOH game Timeline

-Michali's father doesn't die on the ship and he is saved by Jotaro Kujo who realized he had a flesh bud in his forehead and destroyed it. Stelios returns to his family and works for the Speedwagon Foundation as a thank you for saving him.

-Michalis graduates the Ionian University in music instead of joining the Mafia, he still goes in Italy by becoming a singer in a well known restaurant in Rome. He helps Viktoria Erikson and Chemaya Alley to defeat a cult who wants to rule the world by using a Stone Mask which gets destroyed.

EXTRA:

-He knows three languages Greek(native), English and Italian.

-He can play almost any music genre(favourite is Pop Rock, Classical, Nisiotika and Rebetiko)

-He is (slightly) Prideful of his abilities and looks and if someone says something negative he will become angry. His opponents can take this as an advantage to attack him when Michalis looses his cool.

-He is loyal to La Nuova Costa and he is willing to kill a person but he draws the line of killing kids or poor and elderly people.

-He respects and admires Salvatore Castiglier and he reminds him in a way of his father.

STAND:

Name: Lost Treasure 

Namesake: Χαμένος Θυσαυρός/Hamenos Thisauros/Lost Treasure(song by Onirama, Greek Pop Rock band)

User: Michalis Zannos 

Type: Natural Non-Humanoid Stands, Long Range Stands

Stats:

Destructive Power: C

Speed: C -> A (On land -> Under water)

Range: A

Persistence: C

Precision: B

Development Potential: C

Appearance:

Lost Treasure has the appearance of a sea monster with a dragonic head, its "mask" has three horns and purple jeweled eyes, it's face and teeth resembles that of a prehistoric fish(Dunkleosteus), it's hair looks like seaweed and moves like one when under water, two spikes in each elbow and webbed hands. It has green crystals in its stomach and tail, yellow oval pearls in its chest and a dirty yellow/silver belt in its tail.

Abilities:

Hydro-blades: Between the two spikes in each elbow it can form blades made from water and cut his opponents.

Viscous Trap: It spits a thick goop like substance from its mouth to trap its opponents. It takes two hours before it dissolves.

Watery Replica: It can make clones of itself from water to confuse its opponents. It can make only up to 6 replicas.

EXTRA:

-Lost Treasure is the soundtrack of the greek movie Nisos 2

-The stand's colour palette is based from here:

-Lost Treasure's head is based from Wargreymon from the Digimon series. Its overall design is based from some old concept arts I made for an aquatic theme Digimon and a stand of the main villain from my JoJo Fanpart "Temple of Amber".

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[smaragdaman-blog]

Nisiotika - LETA KORRE - matia mou melagxolika

[colorsofmusic]

Irish and Greek Music

Hi! I’m Ami and welcome to my blog. Have you ever heard Irish music or maybe Greek music? I bet you never have, I mean, who wants to hear lame music? But trust me, once you hear it you’ll be captivated by the beauty of the music because I am. When I heard songs from both culture, I had this feeling that makes me wonder if they are connected because the feeling of wanting to dance is the same. Thus, it kind of sparks me to want to understand the reason of this feeling. Let’s check it out!

When I investigate both 2 songs. I realized that they both used ornamentation in their songs. Ornamentation is adding decorative note/notes that makes the song interesting.

Sean-nós or “old style” used for Irish language songs, dances, and poetry that were popular in the 17th and 18th century. Sean-nós singing “is often characterized by unaccompanied free rhythm, relative lack of vibrato or dynamic change, and (sometimes) by the use of rapid ornamentation.” (Williams, 2014). It is usually sung in Gaelic. Sean-nós singers usually have their own personal style of singing, thus a song would never be sung in the same way twice. For example singers from the west (Connemara) and south (Munster) of Ireland usually use highly ornamented style, meanwhile singers from the north (Ulster, especially County Donegal) usually refer to the original melody (Williams, 2014). Nisiotika is music that is created in the islands of the central Aegean Sea. Even though it is light songs, with a gentle rhythm, without dramatic element, the simple dance and the catchy tone that made them popular (Greek music Greek songs, 2017). Nisiotika usually performed in Greek festivals with “violin, lira, clarinet and guitar accompany the high-pitched women voices or the low voice of a single man.” (Greeka)

Tonality in Baidin Fheilimi is mostly consonant, because it feels pleasing when I hear the song. On the contrary, Ikariotikos, the tonality is mostly dissonant. Both songs don’t have modulation since they don’t change away from the home key. In Baidin Fheilimi, the melody is mostly conjunct, because the notes move stepwise. Similarly, in Ikariotikos, the melody is mostly conjunct too. The Irish flute…..The beat in Baidin Fheilimi is compound quadruple with 12/8 time signature meanwhile in Ikariotikos is simple duple with 2/4 time signature. Both of the songs are isometric because they didn't change the time signature throughout a piece of music. You might notice that these two songs area related in that they are both repetitive, bet you hear the same pattern in the whole songs. Both songs overall dynamics is mezzo forte because as you notice it is a little loud. Even though, in Baidin Fheilim, it started with a mezzo piano but it gradually becoming crescendo until the middle section but then it became decrescendo until the end section. On the other hand, in Ikariotikos, it started with mezzo forte because it is a little loud in the beginning but then there’s decrescendo but in the middle section it became mezzo forte again, it is go on until the end section. Emotion in Baidin Fheilimi is peaceful and relaxing, meanwhile Ikaritikos makes us feel like want to dance along with it.

In Baidin Fheilimi, the phrases are mostly balance. Because it is balance it is regular, and the phrasing are mostly long. The song is antecedent but also consequent. On the other hand, Ikariotikos, the phrases are unbalance and irregular. The phrasing are short because of the unbalanceness. Both of the songs are repetitive and binary. As you can hear it, it’s repeating all and all throughout the songs. The thickness of Baidin Fheilimi is medium, on the opposite, Ikariotikos is medium-thick. In Baidin Fheilimi, the voice is accompanied by intruments, meanwhile in Ikariotikos, its instruments only.

The instruments used in Baidin Fheilimi are wooden flute, tin whistle, and guitar. The melody is played by the wooden flute, and it accompanied by tin whistle, also the guitar plays the harmonic. In Ikariotikos, it uses lyre, tambourine, violin, laouto, and askomandoura. The violin is playing the melody, tambourine as the rhythmic accompaniment, and the harmonic accompaniment are lyre, laouto, and askomandoura. The timbre of Baidin Fheilimi is, same like where it was come from, the color of Ireland, green, its relaxing. And I felt that Ikariotos’ timbre is orange like the color of the sky when it is sunset.

Overall, I think that these 2 musical cultures are similar in some ways. They’re both don’t have any modulation. They’re also isometric, only using one time signature. Downbeat accents and also diatonic. But they’re also different in some part in the harmony, Irish uses arpeggios while Greek uses block. And there’s a huge different in dynamics.

Well that’s all for today, see you on my next post!

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[voluptuarian]

Weekly World Music: "Mes Tou Aegeou Ta Nera" (English: "In the waters of the Aegean") by Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis

A traditional Greek folk song, in the Nisiotika style, from the islands of the East Aegean. The typical mode of the Nisiotika songs is based on “melisma”, a musical term referring to group of notes sung in a single syllable, opposite from the typical musical mode, in which each syllable feature its own note.  The style is based on the repetition of the main words, with repeated phrases and half-verses, and words breaking in two and being completed later on with a repetition of the verse. English (in Italic) and Greek lyrics below: 

  In the waters of the Aegean (come out and see), in the waters of the Aegean, oh… in the waters of the Aegean angels are flying

  And as they fl… (Help, Virgin!) and as they fly, oh….and as they fly they scatter roses.

  Aegean ca…(Help Virgin!), Aegean calm, oh….Aegean calm your blue waters

  So your chil… (Help Virgin) so your children,  oh….so your children can come to your shining islands

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Mes stou Aigaiou, (provale na deis) mes stou Aigaiou ta nera, o…mes stou Aigaiou ta nera,  angeli fterougizoun

  Kai mesa sto fter…(voitha Panaghia) kai mes’sto fterougisma tous, o… kai mesa sto fterougisma tous,  triantafylla skorpizoun.

  Aigaio mou ga…, (voitha Panagia)  na galinepse o… na galinepse ta galana nera sou.

  Na erthoun ta, (voitha Panaghia), na erthoun ta, o…na erthoun ta paidhakia sou  sta foteina nisia sou.

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Nisiotika - LETA KORRE - matia mou melagxolika

[frappekailaika]

ΓΙΑΝΝΟΥΛΗΣ & ΒΑΖΑΙΟΣ - ΕΣΕΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ MARLBORO

between the baptism with nisiotes last week and this engagement party (more nisiotes) tonight, I'm in a nisiotiko mood...