Beyond Rembetika: The Music & Dance of The Region of Epirus [4CD Box Set]

April 6, 2013

Years of canvassing, collecting and research have gone into this, the first in a series of exploring early Greek and Balkan folk music pre-dating the rise of Rembetika. Here are the earliest known recordings of village musicians in the northernmost hinterlands of Greece. The isolation of this area produced, and kept pure, distinct styles and vocal expressions that have rarely been heard in such high fidelity. The sound is simultaneously haunting and beautiful.

Compiled and Remastered by Chris King

The purpose of the Long Gone Sound Series is not didactic in nature nor scholarly in scope. Rather, the goal of this venture is to create a catalyst for musical and cultural transformation. We are providing an aperture through which the curious can enter and emerge either famished or full. This is an attempt to capture, if just fleetingly, a discrete frequency in the spectrum of our fading sounds, an audio complement to “Specters Of The Spectrum.”

Christopher King is a re-mastering engineer, producer, and author. He specializes in pre-war rural American music (with an emphasis on Cajun) and various Eastern European, Balkan and Mediterranean musics.

He started Long Gone Sound Productions in 1999. He won a Grammy in 2002 and has been nominated six times in total.

Beyond Rembetika: The Music & Dance of The Region of Epirus [4CD Box Set]

Contact Chris at:

longgonesound@gmail.com

Download CV of Christopher C. King here