Ρίτα Αμπατζή RITA ABADZI - GAZELI NEVA SABAH (Hour of Death)

Αμάν...
Πρέπει νά σκέφτεται κανείς την ώρα του θανάτου, ότι θα μπεί στη μαύρη γής καί σβήνει τόνομά του.

Aman...
Let each one stop and think about the hour of death. Into the black earth he will sink and his name will be erased.

Recorded in Athens 1934. Rita Abadzi (vocals), Lambros Savaïdis (kanonaki) and Dimitris Semsis (violin).

The word "Αμάν" (Aman) is an expression of despair and frustration and used in Greece and the Near/ Middle East.

The expression "μαύρη γή" (black earth) represents not only death, but also exile in a foreign land, such as the kind experienced by Abadzi and the thousands of Greeks which escaped from Smyrna and Asia Minor.

In the case of Gazeli Neva Sabah, "μαύρη γή" alludes to physical death itself and also to the death of Greek culture in Asia Minor following the catastrophe of 1922 and the expulsion of the Greek population.
3000 years of Hellenism in Asia Minor has been snuffed out virtually overnight and, as the song says, "σβήνει το όνομά του" - its name erased.

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[saltadoros08]

kala o lampros kentaei me to kanonaki tou..

i rita i sevntalou xorostatei se theia leitourgeia..

kai esena re loudovike se anagoreuo

se ethniko euergeti pou ferneis stin zoi

kai se epafi me ton kosmo tetoia

diamantia tis romeikis psyxis...

[golemschmolem]

Φίλε μου, αυτό που κάνω είναι πολύ λίγο. Η φλόγα της ρωμιοσύνης καίει μέσα μου, αλλά είναι κάποιοι άνθρωποι σαν και εσένα που με βοηθάνε να την κρατήσω ζωντανή! Εσείς, αυτοί που ακούτε τα τραγούδια αυτά, εσείς οι ρωμιοί που υπάρχετε κάπου εκεί έξω!

[golemschmolem]

....προσπαθώ να επιστρέψω μερικά από τα διαμάντια αυτά...σε εσάς, που πραγματικά τα αξίζετε!!!

Λουδοβίκος*

[OezkanSimsek]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaah ulan aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

i need an biiiiiiiiiig ouzo heeeeeeeeeyt

greetings to all my greek brothers

god bless greece

[M457GRFX]

geia sou marko me to kanonaki sou... girna kana kanoni apo ekeina.. tote..

PONOS..

[MultiAris23]

καλα και οι φωτο ανατριχιαστικοτατες....

[Distant27]

exei polli oraia fwni

[nargilis]

sabax αμανες  απτους καλυτερους της ριτας και σε στιχους .

[darnak2005]

@truemacedonian man i dont give a shit about greece or macedonia or whatever your country want to be called but you are the same stupid as the guy who wrote for the glory of helenism.....

[truemacedonian]

@6510686

Yiassou.

[6510686]

we love you too brother

[truemacedonian]

@6510686

Hellenism lol.You mean the word that a German named Droysen created for King Ottos German made "greece"? Yeah I'm sure that's what "hellenism" is.Even though you don't pray to zeus but to Jesus Christ I find your analogies on a "cultural continuity" hilarious.