• 1.1. we were smoking one evening
  • 1.2. hash-smoking mortissa
  • 1.3. bitch, you made me waste away
  • 1.4. the spinner
  • 1.5. arap zebekiko
  • 1.6. the butcher
  • 1.7. serfo taxim
  • 1.8. your arabian eyes
  • 1.9. my woman's jealous
  • 1.10. in the dark last night
  • 1.11. markos from syros
  • 1.12. death is bitter
04. November 2022
Genre: Folk

vamvakaris, markos

death is bitter

DEATH IS BITTER

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HEAVY, ENTRANCING TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE GREEK UNDERWORLD. Rebetika is the sound of Greece and Asia Minor clashing amid civil war, mass population exchange, and the anarchy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Poetic, mournful, and bitter, rebetika music was born in the hash dens (tekes) of Mediterranean ports, its verses whispered in Greek prisons before spilling out to the greater population in the 1930s, propelled in no small part by a series of remarkable recordings by Markos Vamvakaris. Markos, as he's known to this day, sang heady, drugged out songs of love, pain and yearning at brothels, bars and hash dens in the port of Piraeus. He arrived as a youth in 1917, working as a skinner in a tannery. By the time he picked up the bouzouki ... read more