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gemsofgreece · 4 years

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Hello, may I request some comedy/light drama etc. recs from the golden age of Greek TV?

Okay, then *cracks knuckles*

(For anyone who didn’t read the first answered ask, the “golden age” of Greek TV is 1990 - 2010)

I don’t know if you are the Anon who had asked the 2010 onward shows because they didn’t mind the subtitles. If you definitely need subtitles, I am afraid there are only two shows you can watch right now:

Είσαι το Ταίρι Μου (You’re My Soulmate)

Romantic comedy / light drama (2001 - 2002). Vicky and Stella are two very different friends who are Greek immigrants in Australia. Vicky is stunning and men go crazy for her but she has many insecurities. Stella is not conventionally attractive but she allows nothing to bring her down. They both fall for the same handsome rich Greek, Nikos. It’s no brainer who wins - Nikos is a womanizer and falls immediately for Vicky. The interesting part is what happens next - when Vicky’s insecurities make her come up with a crazy plan / prank that will unleash hell over these three, Nikos’ entire family and a couple of friends living in Athens and change their lives forever...and everyone will then get what they deserve... or what they are brave enough to claim. Overall just a hilarious and clever comedy, with great acting and memorable characters you end up loving and an ending that isn’t a cliche. Here’s the link to watch with english subtitles.

Στο Παρά Πέντε (In the Nick of Time)

Mystery / Crime Comedy / Light drama (2005 - 2007) One of the two most famous Greek comedies. Five totally different people happen to be witnesses to the murder of a politician. Before he dies, the politician asks them to find who did it and take revenge for this and other crimes they have committed. These five unassuming people become friends and start solving the mystery together like hilariously amateur detectives. In time, they will find out that there’s something more that unites them besides their friendship...and maybe not everything happens accidentally. Here’s the link to watch with english subtitles. This one is being subtitled right now.

So bad news: only two shows with English subtitles. Good news: They are the best of the best, so no problem.

But if subtitles are not necessary, let’s proceed with the rest I love in no particular order:

10 Λεπτά Κήρυγμα (10 Minutes of Scolding)

Comedy (2000 - 2003). The life of Leonidas Alivizatos, an untamed only child with divorced parents. The story is basically the endless ways Leonidas find to escape the limitations his parents put to him and the shenanigans he does with his best friend Telis and his girlfriend Marilena that drive his family crazy. Fun fact: My generation, we all had at some point a crush on Leonidas...right?

Singles

Romantic Dramedy (2004 - 2008). The show has four seasons although it’s the first one that mostly had a lasting impression on me. The story revolves around the social, professional and romantic lives of six young single people: Maro, a sensitive hopeless romantic, Rania, an angry cynic who hates relationships, Lila, a sex crazed cheerful woman, Orestes, an average I’d say young man who has his eyes on Maro though, Arthuros, Orestes’ best friend and a socially awkward man with a dark family past and Loukas, a divorced father who seems to be quite the catch. There’s something special about the first season, it had an atmosphere, a style that I loved. The music was great too. I still remember the episode with the Reaper nightmares and that green light. In the following seasons, half of the cast changed. Y’all Greeks here do you remember the title song? I love it.

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Δεληγιάννειο Παρθεναγωγείο (Deligiannis School for Girls)

Comedy, Drama (2007 - 2008). Summer 1939. The events of the series evolve at the last period of the Greek Regime, the Greco-Italian War and the Nazi Invasion of Greece. Mimis Metaxas in the headmaster of the School and trapped in a miserable marriage. His father-in-law invites Agape, his niece, to teach at the school. Mimis falls desperately in love with Agape but of course he keeps it a secret. Agape is a free-spirited woman and it is soon clear that she is a Communist (or at least leaning toward left ideals) and Mimis tries to balance his job as the Headmaster of the school, his sad marriage, his love and the historical events happening in the country with his need to keep Agape protected at all costs and under full secrecy.

Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης (Constantine and Helen’s)

Comedy (1998 - 2000). Okay, this is officially the best Greek comedy to date. After it ended in 2000, it has been on TV repeatedly and continuously to this day. For twenty years non-stop. It still has bigger viewership than new current shows. An old aristocratic childless man writes two wills right before his death in which he gives his big residence. The one will is for Constantine, his aloof and conservative nephew who is a professor of Byzantine History in the University. The other will is for Helen, the only daughter of his beloved poor gardener who is a potty mouthed waitress. Constantine and Helen arrive at the house the same day and they are both determined to inherit the house and they can’t wait until the court date. The story revolves around everything they do to get rid of each other and their friends who are just as crazy as they are. There’s an interesting story about this show: they had done some tests and pilots and they were convinced that nobody was going to watch their show so the show became low budget and the actors were free to go batshit crazy. This ended up creating this hilarious masterpiece that is being rewatched by million Greeks to this day.

Οι Μεν και οι Δε (Them and the others)

Comedy (1993 - 1996). Dionysis Dagas, a famous lawyer who defends criminals lives with his wife Vana, an aristocratic lazy woman, in their apartment in Kolonaki. In the apartment right next to them Timos and Nana Stamatis come to live, unemployed and a jewelry artist respectively. Timos and Nana attempt numerous times to take money from frugal Dionysis and in general a big war starts between them as snobby Dagas are the exact opposite of the hippy Stamatis.

Σαββατογεννημένες (Born on Saturday)

Comedy (2003 - 2004). A sexist and all around horrible man named Savvas wins 7 million Euros at the lottery and as he learns it he has a car crash and loses his memory. His three ex-wives, the Greek language teacher Keti, the actress Bia and the tourist shop owner Soula, all very different and hating the guts of each other and Savvas, team up to find the lottery ticket before Savvas' memory recovers. But in order to achieve that, they have to act a lot and they have to take care of incapacitated Savvas themselves.

Το Καφέ της Χαράς (Chara's cafe)

Romantic comedy (2003 - 2006 and 2019 - now). Chara Chaska, an Athenian unmarried mother decides to start anew and takes her daughter with her to go live somewhere close to nature. They go to a village in Mountainous Arcadia, named Kolokotronitsi. What Chara doesn't know is that the village is extremely traditional and backwards and governed by the conservative and misogynist mayor Periandros Popotas. Popotas and the villagers will start a big war against the newcomer, especially when they find out she wants to open a modern lounge cafe and is not married. Chara has only few supporters there but soon she will also have the interest of her biggest enemy. The show has been revived since last year, as the continuation of what happens many years later but I haven't been watching.

Dolce Vita

Romantic comedy (1995 - 1997). Christina Markatou is the mature rich widow of a tomato factory owner and now she runs it on her own. Christina visits her daughter Dorita in Italy where she studies and upon her return to Greece she unexpectedly has a one night stand with young Antonis Kaloudis. What they both don't know is that Antonis is Dorita's fiance and travels to Greece to meet her family. After the initial shock, Antonis realises he prefers the mother but Christina tries to resist. The love though is too strong. Christina begins seeing Antonis, full of regrets and self-loathing, and tries to hide the affair from her daughter, the nosy housemaid Aspasia and the absolute terror that her mother-in-law is, Olga Markatou. Is there any chance for happiness?

Εγκλήματα (Crimes)

Black comedy (1998 - 2000). Alekos and Flora have always been in love but never got together and got married to evil Soso and kindly Achilles respectively instead. Alekos finds Flora and they start an affair. Soso finds out about the affair quickly and tries repeatedly to kill Alekos. All the crazy things that happen start from all of Soso's murderous attempts and affect the lives of the aforementioned as well as their close relatives who are as crazy as the main characters. Will Soso achieve her biggest ambition to become utterly evil and kill Alekos and whomever else stands in her way?

Σ' αγαπώ, μ' αγαπάς (I love you, you love me)

Domestic comedy (2000 - 2002). The hilariously realistic life of a couple, Dimitra and Thodoris (the actors play with their real names). The actors had such great chemistry that they were chosen as the voice actors for Greek Marlin and Dory in Finding Nemo (also with great success).

So, these are my favourites but there are many others I like or that are very popular but not my cup of tea. Any other Greek is welcome to recommend their own faves.

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theparanoid · 2 years

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Savvas Metaxas - Still Wind

Album: NAF (2021)

[Experimental, Musique Concrète, Abstract, Ambient]

#music #experimental #musique concrete #abstract #ambient #Bandcamp

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continuo-docs · 4 years

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February 2020 reviews

Rölling Stëins – Rölled Göld (2020) https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com/album/r-lled-g-ld Short, exquisite 18mn album of sound collages, spoken word, synthesizer and found samples. Sound sources include audio detritus from films, documentaries, interviews, TV features, and other YouTube or Freesound channels. The equivalent of found footage in music, the project is not so much an ironical commentary on the mass media (like similar project The Tape Beatles was in the 1990s, or VaaticanRs164mp's Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen in 2011), but rather to champion a free rein, nonsensical collage strategy within the limits of 2 to 4 sounds per track. The album may be short, but Rölling Stëins nonetheless take the time to deliver a proper conclusion (track #8 The Wörd) where one "member of the band" lists all three musicians who performed. Though I love the idea of a spoken conclusion, it doesn't seem 3 guys are needed to cut and paste sounds, and I wouldn't be surprised if everything was actually lifted from the internet by one US undergraduate. The puerile obsession with diacritical accents, especially the diaeresis, is part of the fun, I süppöse. Excellent cut+paste job, anyway.

Will Guthrie – Nist Nah (2020) https://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/nist-nah I had some expectations regarding this album considering the Indonesian gamelan instruments used throughout. Granted, the sounds produced by Guthrie with the bronze and mallet instruments are gorgeous, but the compositions are disappointing and unadventurous to these ears. Indeed, Nist Nah largely eschews in-depth microtonal exploration in favor of endless repetition of simple patterns, though without recourse to counterpoint or parallel development, as in Steve Reich, say. I feel Guthrie didn't really engage with the specific intonation and rhythmic complexities of gamelan. As it stands, this album misses on something great. On a side note, NY trio Asa Tone similarly fails to engage with the idiosyncracies of gamelan in their oversimplified Temporary Music album of February 2020.

Patrizia Oliva – Celante (2020) https://www.setoladimaiale.net/catalogue/view/SM3990 A collection of lullabies for voice, synth and loop pedal developped, I suppose, during Patrizia's various live performances of recent years, or at least conceived for a live set up and ease of travel. This is quite a departure from previous endeavours dominated by synth textures and dream-like, Surrealist mixing strategies –cf. Numen, life of Elitra Lipozi, 2016. Typically in Celante, a slow rhythm is installed –made of voice+synth loops combined– over which Patrizia intones a mysterious chanting with her warm, close-miked voice singing mostly in English. I was literally under the spell of this voice's soft texture and timid yet exquisite vibrato – not to mention Italian accent. We are in the domain of high poetry here, and the timeless vocabulary of the lyrics tend to avoid any reference to our contemporary, prosaic era. Musically, I would have enjoyed one or two more uptempo tracks, some joyous dance-like song to contrast with the rest. As it is, the album is more introspective than life-celebratory, but this is an enchanting album, anyway.

Savvas Metaxas – Transmitter (2020) https://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/transmitter Brilliant amalgamation of musique concrète sounds, radio, synthesizer and spoken word, with great interplay between well structured sound elements. Metaxas avoids piling up thick layers of sounds, taking great care instead to let the music breathe, evolve at its own pace, with a life of its own. The sounds collide with each other in quasi-Surrealist collages and chance encounters, to create a music which is full of surprises and inscrutable apparitions – not to mention a pinch of psychoacoustics along the way. In this strange world, the music itself sounds like a foreign language, while the Greek spoken word seems vaguely familiar. Transmitter is an ambiguous album, a hall of mirrors where sounds are trapped, endlessly reflected in Metaxas' hypnagogic visions.

Manuel Pessoa de Lima – Realejo (2020) https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realejo Brilliant collage music by Brazilian composer Manuel Pessôa de Lima (b1981) currently living in Berlin. His debut LP Realejo explores the psychoacoustic effects of widely diverging sound sources channeled through unusual composing strategies. Side 1 explores homophonies between a Stuttgart church organ played with organ stops half-way open, on the one hand, and whistles of a night security guard in the streets of São Paulo, on the other hand. Short sound excerpts of each are interspersed so as to compare, contrast and counterpoint each other, in a kind of radical cultural clash. These 2 sound sources are complemented with a variety of other found sounds, like child babble, street recordings and scraps of digital detritus, the ensemble forming a kind of mental map of an itinerant composer trying to make sense of the multiplicity of sounds in his head. Side 2 features the same sound sources plus English lessons for Portuguese speakers undertaken by the composer, as well as more pop songs, TV excerpts, folk festival, etc. Points of comparison for this kind of music would send us back to 1980s Sound Art – think Arsenije Jovanovic, Roger Doyle or Alber Mayer.

[L.F.]

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sisilafami · 5 years

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2018

same shit, different year.

Rap:

My RAOTY is 03 Greedo - God Level i guess, then

70th Street Carlos - youtubes & 777

BlocBoy JB - Simi

Blueface - Famous Cryp & Two Coccy

Chief Keef - Ottopsy, Mansion Musik & Back From The Dead 3

City Girls - PERIOD & Girl Code

Co Cash - Foolhardy

Daboii - Neva Lookin Back

Drego & Beno - Sorry for the Get Off

Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

G Herbo - Swervo

Goonew - Goonrich Urkel

Gunna - Drip Season 3

JPEGMAFIA - Veteran

Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 3

Kodak Black - HeartBreak Kodak & Dying To Live

Lil Dude & Goonew - Homicide Boyz

Lil Durk - Signed To The Streets 3

NBA YoungBoy - Until Death Call My Name

Playboi Carti - Die Lit

Saba - Care For Me

Sada Baby - youtubes

Smino - Noir

SOB X RBE - GANGIN II

Trouble - Edgewood

ZMONEY - Chiraq Mogul

HM :

1TakeJay x Rucci - The Winning Team

21 Savage - I Am > I Was

Bandhunta Izzy - Code Blue

BbyMutha - Muthaz Day 3

Black Fortune - Ossh Rock

Busdriver - Electricity Is On Our Side

Chris Crack - Being Woke Ain't Fun

Fmb Dz - The Gift 2

Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs the Sirens

Husalah - H

Jayo Sama - Out On Bond

Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine

Key Glock - Glockoma & Glock Bond

Koran Streets - Late 20’s

Lil Tre - Unexpected

LUCKI - DAYS B4 II

Maxo Kream - Punken

Meek Mill - Championships

MIKE - War in my Pen

Migos - Culture II

Payroll Giovanni - Big Bossin vol. 2

Rico Nasty - Nasty

Roc Marciano - RR2꞉ The Bitter Dose & Behold A Dark Horse

SahBabii - Squidtastic

Saweetie - High Maintenance

SD - Pay Attention

Sheck Wes - MUDBOY

Shy Glizzy - Fully Loaded

$ilkMoney - I hate My Life…

Starlito & Trapperman Dale - Trapstar

Tierra Whack - Whack World

Trippie Redd - A Love Letter To You 3

YG - Stay Dangerous

YNW Melly - I Am You

Young Nudy - SlimeBall 3

Vince Staples - FM!

R’n’B:

Jacquees - 4275

Mariah Carey - Caution

Ravyn Lenae - Crush

Tamia - Passion Like Fire

Brent Faiyaz - Lost

Digital Beats:

RP Boo - I'll Tell You What!

Byrell The Great - Chopped Cheese

Iglooghost - Clear Tamei & Steel Mogu

Martyn Bootyspoon - Silk Eternity

EQ Why - East 37Th Street & Footwork Tracks Vol.2

Proc Fiskal - Insula

Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones - Vicious Circles

Sabiwa - Sabiwa

P. Adrix - Álbum Desconhecido

Crystallmess - Mere Noises

Stun Pool - STUN POOL

Various - Príncipe Mixtape (2018 Special Edition)

Contemporary Music:

Vanessa Rossetto & Matthew Revert - Everyone Needs A Plan

Lucio Capece & Marc Baron - My Trust in You

Graham Lambkin - No Better No Worse Vol 2

Lee Fraser - Cor Unvers

Thomas Ankersmit - Homage To Dick Raaijmakers

Christopher Fox - Topophony

Alistair MacDonald - Cabinets de curiosité

Arek Gulbenkoglu - A gift like a hollow vessel

Cassandra Miller - Just So & O Zomer

Etelin - Hui Terra

eRikm - Mistpouffers

Francisco Meirino - The Ruins

Kate Carr - I Ended Out Moving To Brixton

Monty Adkins & Paulina Sundin - Beyond Pythagoras

MP Hopkins - Aeroplanes & Puddles

Peter Blamey - Five Fertile Exchanges

Jamie Drouin & Lance Austin Olsen - Moon Watcher

Savvas Metaxas - Wetlands

Clara de Asís - Without

John Tilbury & Keith Rowe - Sissel

Masayuki Imanishi - Worn Tape

Graham Lambkin & Áine O'Dwyer - Green Ways

Hong Chulki & Will Guthrie - Mosquitoes and Crabs

Eli Keszler - Stadium

Simon Whetham - Open and Closed Circles

Exael - Collex

Matthew Atkins - Cryptic System

linda catlin smith - wanderer

Tonus - Intermediate Obscurities I+IV & Texture Point

Jörg Widmann - Drittes Labyrinth / Polyphone Schatten

Mathias Delplanque - Témoins

Pascal Battus, Anne-F Jacques & Tim Olive - Trois Conseillers

Data Dump:

Aclds - ['b7nb95c

Aclds - {Qa.-br.e

Aclds - 3øºEg-x-8xd

Aclds - Fuadain Liesmas Appendages

Dalglish - I'[]nf]c_T_

Scald - (Kyjch Uyr[st

Autechre - NTS Sessions

Post-Techno / Ante-House:

2814 - Pillar New Sun

Clouds - Heavy The Eclipse

De Leon - De Leon

Diptera - Antenna

DJ David Goblin - Ork Music

Dolo Percussion - Dolo 3

Facechain - Accensor

Galcher Lustwerk - 200% GALCHER

Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes

How Du - Landing

Kolorit - Workshop XXI

Loidis - A Parade, in the Place I Sit, the Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)

THUGWIDOW - DESIGNER VOID

Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic

Young Paint - Young Paint

Zuli - Trigger Finger

Robert Mallet-Stevens Music:

Nico Niquo - Timeless

Organ Tapes - Into One Name

Foodman - Moriyama & Aru Otoko No Densetsu

Aqueduct Ensemble - Improvisations on an Apricot

Motoko & Myers - Basis Key

Lolina - The Smoke

James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai

Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures

Gossiwor - Lighthouse

Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

New Old:

Carl Stone - Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties

Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis

Luc Ferrari - L’Escalier Des Aveugles

Pablo's Eye - Spring Break

Christian Zanési - Grand Bruit ⧸ Stop! l'horizon

#2018

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the-only-i-eternal-blog · 3 years

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Écouter / acheter: Synaptic de Savvas Metaxas

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hegrade · 5 years

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Granny Records, οπτική ταυτότητα από το Γιώργο Βουρλίδα

Η Granny Records (http://www.grannyrecords.org/) είναι μία ανεξάρτητη δισκογραφική εταιρεία με έδρα τη Θεσσαλονίκη. Στόχος της είναι η ανάδειξη του ήχου και των έργων καλλιτεχνών της εγχώριας σκηνής και του εξωτερικού, μέσα από το ευρύτερο φάσμα του ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού, του θορύβου, της ηλεκτροακουστικής σύνθεσης και της σύγχρονης ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής.

Η Granny Records συστάθηκε το 2008 και αποτελείται από τους Σπύρο Εμμανουηλίδη, Σάββα Μεταξά, Βασίλη Λιόλιο και Άρη Γκιάτα ενώ η οπτική της ταυτότητα βρίσκεται κάτω από την επιμέλεια του Γιώργου Βουρλίδα.

Από το 2008 μέχρι σήμερα, η Granny Records έχει συνεχή ροή ηχητικών εκδόσεων και διοργάνωσης μουσικών δρώμενων, εκθέσεων και εργαστηρίων, αποτελώντας έτσι ένα πολυπολιτισμικό δίαυλο έκφρασης και ανταλλαγής καλλιτεχνικών ιδεών.

Στο πλαίσιο της δεύτερης έκδοσης του SKG Bridges Festival η Granny Records παρουσιάσε στο κοινό της Θεσσαλονίκης δύο ημέρες πειραματικής ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής. Στο χώρο του Μουσείου Φωτογραφίας Θεσσαλονίκης φιλοξενήθηκαν καλλιτέχνες και μουσικά σχήματα για μεμονωμένες συναυλίες, συγκεκριμένα από την Ελλάδα οι Acte Vide, Eventless Plot, Savvas Metaxas, Spyros Emmanouilidis και από το εξωτερικό οι Giuseppe Ielasi και Lucrecia Dalt. Παράλληλα και καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια του SKG Bridges Festival εκτέθηκε στο Ύψιλον οπτικό υλικό της γραφιστικής ταυτότητας της Granny Records, υπό την επιμέλεια του γραφίστα Γιώργου Βουρλίδα.

#vourlidas

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