Released 30 August 2010 Release date 30 August 2010 | Length 122:15 Label World Music Network | |
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The Rough Guide to Greek Café
(2010) The Rough Guide to the Music of Hungarian Gypsies
(2008) Genres World music, Music of Greece | ||
The Rough Guide to Greek Café is a world music compilation album originally released in 2010. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release covers a wide breadth of the music of Greece on Disc One, from traditional to modern. Disc Two highlights Dimitris Mistakidis. The album was compiled by Marc Dubin, a journalist specializing in Greece for the past three decades. Brad Haynes coordinated the project, Laurence Cedar mastered the work, and Phil Stanton was the producer.
Contents
Critical reception
The album received generally positive reviews upon release. Both Chris Nickon of AllMusic and Deanne Sole of PopMatters noted the use of the word "café". Nickson described the title as somewhat of a "misnomer" and the compilation instead as "an introduction to Greek music, and a very good one" showing that Greek music is "richly alive". Sole wrote that the compiler "favours forward movement", that "hardness is allowed", and that if it is indeed a "café" soundtrack, it is one "for mobs of 19th-century European aesthetes".
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Dimitris Mistakidis, a rebetika guitarist.
Songs
1Sto PatithrakiKristi Stassinopoulou2:59
2AthivolesChainides4:27
3Ilie Mou Iliaki MouPapa-Anastasis5:49