Anestis Delias is on the right in this picture...
This is my favourite of his very few recordings, the title means "Drunk and Stoned".
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SeasideMan
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The_Walrus
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- 2008-07-21 @ 17:35:33
Glad you liked it, for more about rebetiko, see my boring web site, www.doctor-dark.co.uk or just Google for such names as Vamvakaris, Bagianderas...
PS Try counting the beats in that crazy rhythm...-
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SeasideMan
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- 2008-07-21 @ 17:51:59
It sounds to be in fairly strict 4/4 time to me, with the bass being the backbone. The other instruments weave around the bass's solid foundation, with a lot of use of 16th notes and triplets. As such, the similarity of American Country music with this is quite marked. It would be interesting to replace the lead instrument (balalaika, is it?) with a banjo and/or mandolin!
American country was of course based on European folk music, so this similarity isn't entirely surprising.
I've just downloaded a few more of his tracks :-)
Tom.-
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The_Walrus
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- 2008-07-21 @ 17:58:46
My mistake on the rhythm, perhaps it's not a zeimbekiko, after all, so I assume tsifte-teli. Not balalaika, Delias played the trichordo bouzouki on this one, and the bass sound is probably a guitar.
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SeasideMan
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- 2008-07-21 @ 18:14:38
I just had to look those terms up! I see that zeimbekiko is a 9/8 meter, which would normally played as triplets in 3/4 time with emphasis on the 1st note of each triplet. Parts of Tubular Bells are in 9/8, interestingly. That song wasn't one of those, so I guess you must be right that it's that other one (which I also hadn't heard of).
Ah, that was a Bouzouki. Lovely sound.
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The_Walrus
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- 2008-07-21 @ 19:22:16
If you play the zeybekiko that way, it won't work... I have here some of the ways they get played, and that's ignoring the Turkish ways. See elsewhere on my disturbed web site for downloads of Turkish Zeybekikos...
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SeasideMan
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- 2008-07-21 @ 19:56:31
Yes indeed - I just gave the most basic description of a 9/8 rhythm. There are many possible variations, as your chart shows. This is why music is so endlessly fascinating :-)
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That's brilliant, I love that. The music has a lovely lazy feeling about it that is probably really hard to play in that style. The vocal fits the music so very very well.
Great, thanks for that - a completely new name to me, but one I won't forget now.
Tom.