BBC Documentary on Rebetika Part 3

[ekwinix]

Thankyou.



[gabrinail]

Does anybody can tell me where in Piraeus we can find this sort of musik?

[gabrinail]

Fascinating! Great job by BBC and thanks for posting all this-

[Born2BeYourBaby]

I haven't read all comments yet, apologies. The voice narrating sounds like Anthony Quinn. This is a fairly old documentary but I never thought a foreign channel would be interested in the genre of rembetika. Pleasant surprise. However, one the songs we hear, "armenaki" belongs to the folk category, the nisiotika, not rembetika. Better technical advice was required for the production team as it's difficult for a foreign crew to know all.

[gloup81]

allies = brits

[pirasa5]

i beg your pardon lofgt. what the hell were greeks doing in the Turkish land? I dont think they would have been killed had they stayed home.

[gloup81]

@pirasa5 omg , asia minor is a greek land , a 400 year parenthesys is nothing vompared to eternity , turks homelanf are the golturk mountains somewhere in the middle of mongolia in case u miss the facts ...

[pirasa5]

i beg your pardon lofgt. what the hell were greeks doing in the Turkish land? I dont think they would have been killed had they stayed home.

[goodtimes616]

by the way the treacherous allies were the british...

[sahhaf1234]

Thanks a lot. Now I have to hunt for her CD's..

[sahhaf1234]

who is the lady singing the first song? and what is the name of the song?

This is very similar to the turkish music. At the same time, so much different..

[Solfire69]

her name is eleni arvanitaki

[droutsolias]

Eleftheria Arvanitaki she is very famous now in Greece

[Solfire69]

sorry Eleftheria Arvanitaki

[goodtimes616]

my cousins name is arvanitakis...wow

[kostaspa18]

GREECE is everywhere....all in this planet they have born from greece..

[apomiaad]

afta pou kanoune sto gamo emeis ta kaname stin ammooooo ola ta leftaaaaaaaaaaa

[saltadoros08]

ayta einai ta megaleia

[KorrectErra]

Shut the fuck up about politics and enjoy the music u bunch of bitches, lol

[nickcobakt]

at 01:48 is Elefteria Arbanitaki... and the group is Athinaiki Kobania..

[zabalovic]

We who are writeing on theese sides have not live during the time all this happends in Asia Minor, for that it should be better to keep quite !!!

[kots75]

be proud. No one will tell you not to be proud. It is a turkish city , it was not always though. Greeks first inhabited Smyrni. They were speaking greek and they were living there for many many years.

[skdlsaa]

shut up stupid asshole. you're a disgrace to turks and to izmir.

[cheekymonkey1974]

Does anyone know the name of the song, the second song played in this 3rd part which has the lyrics "Pare me, pare me, ela pare me"? I love this song!

[GeorgeGreekTrucker]

It's 'Armenaki' by the Konitopoulos family

Traditional old 'Nisiotiko' meaning from the islands.

[tostesson]

Yeah yeah the the turks are always the victims. Ask the armenians...

[diplomatofebonia]

Asia Minor was a GREEK territory before the uncivilized Mongol hordes rode in on horseback and ruined a great civilization. TURKS, GO BACK TO CHINA!

[nolimits1421]

geia sou re eleftheria terastia...

[armgreek]

i am not greek,but i remember my grandmas told me story how greek killed christians in Smyrna,and a lot of people died in sea.I lost my baby uncle same way,mu granma was saved by french soldiers.ALL SEA WAS COVERED BY DED BODIES-armenians and greeks.WE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT!

[BostonEm]

If so, I suggest that you never forget those Turks killed and raped by Greek army during its advances in Western Anatolia in 1919-1921/1922. In fact, I am not justifying murdered Greeks and Armenians (at the hands of the Turks), I am just suggesting that this is a point that must be made while talking about nationa's responsibility for historical events and the issues of morale and collective memory.

[kantaf]

you speak the language of truth..greeks and turks are brothers..we were always brothers..historically..and as goodtimes said british were always the factor for economic and political problems..geia sou kardasi..

[ksd444]

I want to add I have no problems with my greek firends and my grandmother is greek but the europens want to see only the suffer of christians..

[ksd444]

first the greek army invaded turkey; and here it is not told what they made to the turkish civils, children, women. yeah the christians support eachother as bbc..

[randomuser15]

what would you do to the ones that would have squated your home?

[lofgt]

First the neoturks(of which Kemal was a member) massacred armenians, greeks, syrians and other christians in Asia Minor during WWI, a war they lost along with Germany+Austria.

A consenquence of their defeat was that Greece be given control over Smyrni with a predominant greek population.

Kemal and his guerilla groups(chetes) started harassing greek forces in that area, while continuing the extermination of everyone non-turk in the rest of Asia Minor.

[lofgt]

Greece tried advancing into mainland, in order to repel them, eventually expanding the front so much that it was unsustainable.

A major part in this development played the change of attitude towards Greece from former WWI allies France, Italy, and Russia (turned USSR) which abundantly provided for Kemal's movement, Greece left only with the ambiguous support from England.

Actually it was to no great power's strategic interest a country with almost complete control over the Aegean and Bosporus.

[lofgt]

So, you shouldn't complain. Christians have no regrets in selling out other christians, when it serves them right.

As was proven the case during the last episode of the war, the massacre in Smyrni, when but for the American ship, every single european ship in the harbour adamantly refused to accept -and save- fleeing refugees, cutting hands, pouring hot water on them and other christian stuff.

Ahem.

[lofgt]

Greece tried advancing into mainland, in order to repel them, eventually expanding the front so much that it was unsustainable.

A major part in this development played the change of attitude towards Greece from former WWI allies France, Italy, and Russia (turned USSR) which abundantly provided for Kemal's movement, Greece left only with the ambiguous support from England.

Actually it was to no great power's strategic interest a country with almost complete control over the Aegean and Bosporus.

[nikkis67]

re tin arvanitaki...

[moutsee]

driving through the greek landscape with this music on is one of the most wonderful things you can do. try it. greetings to greece

[Ipatia2]

Still weeping for our lost homes!