Bagla Reverb

Same sun – different splinters- shattering shadow’s realm with photon-haze raking at the day’s rippled perimeter.  Footsteps echo the tinkling of a tiny lute.  Concealed now, slipped under the overcoat and swallowed in its fold, the song-bird nestling within.  Looking forward in sunny yellowed time we find our footsteps wandering along alleys and wandering byways – bustling quays by the sea.  Winding lanes with cellars and taverns.  A whirling zeibekiko emerges like a Dervish through the echoing teke door and we find in our footsteps we’ve been here before.  These echoing zithers, tinkling finger symbolic zelia and tapping darabukas- yawling karamusas and mellifluous clarinos-  and the guitar, bouzouki and baglamas of the Piraeus-style zeibekiko 9/8 sound- rebetiko’s early chant punctuated and decorated by the ethereal and shimmering bagla – surely one of the most mystical and enchanted instruments ever to be given to man by the Gods…  

Rebertiko Movie:

More on Rebetiko from ‘The Caterpillar’:

http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/blog-post.html

Baglamas - μπαγλαμάς

Dazzling in mottled sunlight, shadowed by moonclouds, moving through misty dockside streets – something under his coat- a miniature lute.  Overcoat-cautious he glances round, pencil-moustache and trilby hat.  Sunshine’s soon shaded as he takes an alley and then another.  Starlight sparkles fresh as he winds through the maze.  Then a door swings open and he steps into the teke…..  Now the Baglamas can chirp like a grasshopper…  

ΟΙ ΜΠΑΓΛΑΜΑΔΕΣ, ΣΤΡ. ΠΑΓΙΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ, ΣΤ. ΚΗΡΟΜΥΤΗΣ 1946

 

At the Teke – A Scene from the movie ‘Rebetiko’…

http://www.nine-eight.com/article3.html

Baglamas:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQPt1cziPxM&list=PLkMZb0s_TYEarjnbS1SAN4FkS2ufdDt9u&index=1

μπαγλαμάς

 

KRISTALLO

Cladodes, whorls & Bilbys – By a gulch, by a gully cretaceous critters, epigeal spittlebugs, horsetail-trees and she-oaks sheeeing in the Iron Wood Breeze, transcending Llanugos lurch by lovely lilac light – splattering gibberellic acid on scenes of desert-crow-feather-sheens, blue-black, metallic clacking chords. Aporia Europa oriental and Orphic – ripping dictionaries by flickering rushlight. Lexi-con/artists making light of the britten verb. The word & writ, the anglish langouridge.

ΚΡΥΣΤΑΛΛΩ (ΣΤΕΛΛΑΚΗΣ ΠΕΡΠΙΝΙΑΔΗΣ) Kristallo: Stellakis Perpiniadis

ΧΤΕΣ ΤΟ ΒΡΑΔΥ ΣΤΟΝ ΤΕΚΕ ΜΑΣ - Ktes to Vradi Ston Teke Mas – Last night in the teke:

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz?feature=mhee#p/c/759653F5C35AA02D/19/AOPo-GuZLFE

Stellakis Perpiniadis - Η ΦΩΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΓΙΛΕ (The Voice of the Bong) 1935 στελλάκης περπινιάδης Η Φωνή Του Ναργιλέ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x11lMUXwO2k&playnext=1&list=PLB76CB12524807DB3

Stellakis Perpiniadis - Ο ΑΡΓΙΛΕΣ (Water Pipe)

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz?feature=mhee#p/c/759653F5C35AA02D/74/dSfcxuQa0ns

Also by Stellakis: - Ο ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣ Ο ΒΑΡΚΑΡΗΣ (1938) :

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz?feature=mhsn#p/c/3568ABC0BAF5BA7F/50/LrGJy-EKtTU

Σα φουμάρω τσιγαρλίκι Στελάκης Περπινιάδης (When I’m smoking a joint) Stelakis Perpiniadis 1935

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz?feature=mhee#p/c/21/EQPt1cziPxM

Rebetika Article: http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post.html

Note: http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/translatum-gr-forum )

Aspropyrgos, Eleusis & The Mysteries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspropyrgos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefsina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries

http://www.eleusinianmysteries.org/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarinas

http://toowoombaplants2008.blogspot.com/2010/06/belah.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot

http://australian-animals.net/bandi.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(video_game)

ΖΕΜΠΕΚΙΑΝΟ ΣΠΑΝΙΟΛΟ - A great zeibekiko from Batis:

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz?feature=mhee#p/c/759653F5C35AA02D/6/Kesy3NyP2FI

The Caterpillar No.20 - Pressure Cave

Porphyry dripping caverns miniaturized at the darling Cornish Cove – caves of hermit crustaceans mesmerized by the gurgling whoosh of the blow-hole, lapping brine licking at aqua-lichenous igneous metamorphic porphyry pyroclasts – lobsters lurk. Waves breaking out at sea –

Dirigible ridgeback hog of eggs, bristle-boar in the mist * stars scattered through an icy sky * twigs cool with moss in the swamp - things unseen by man, nature rattling * dulse boulders surround the kelp cluttered island - black birds of the sea spatter its summit * grass-tufts springy - plants of the land lichen * globular celular mercury * fluttering gelatinous cells - the world glimpsed through a fly's wing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/floydyopz

http://www.radiofreepenzance.blogspot.com/

The Caterpillar Dub 19 - Flying Carpet Cult

In The Glyptotek tonight - texts from Aztec cliff-caves, narwhal shavings, whirling wheels, glyphs and reels of magnetic tape...

To Minore Tou Teke - Ioannis Khalkias

Bros Sta Kleista Parathira - Stratos Pagioumtzys

Yannis Papaioannou - To Bouzouki San Klaiei

To hear 150 Rebetika songs, and lots of other stuff, check out The Caterpillar on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/floydyopz

Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear - The Ghost

Thanks to all the Caterpillar Readers around the World! You can contact The Caterpillar at savetheholyheadland@yahoo.com - please put Ye Caterpillar in the subject box. If you like The Caterpillar, you could print out the flyers below, cut them up and give them to your friends. Thanks. Why not start your own paper? Blogspots are Free and you can increase your circulation by printing your own leaflets, flyers and posters. Take back the power of words! Enjoy.......

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Ρεμπέτικα

ή κάμπια - The Caterpillar No.19: Rebetika! 78's of 9/8 enthusiasmos - 9 Muses sing!

Also : The Sun is the Day's Moon by Night; These Days and Those Days; DUB JOURNALISM - HOAX OR REAL LIFE PHENOMENON? In the GLYPTOTEK...

Stellakis - KTES TO VRADY STON TEKE MAS - 1934

Isouna Ksipoliti - Kostas Mpezos - 1930

Ο Σταύρακας μες τον τεκέ - Σπύρος Περιστέρης - 1935

O Stavrakas mes ton teke - Spiros Peristerys

Link to The Caterpillar No.2 - Ancient Bouzouki-type instrument:

http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.com/2009/07/issue-two-song-to-muses.html

Hope you enjoyed the Music. To check out 100's of Rebetiko records, and many other styles, including Ska, Two Tone, Reggae, Folk, 60's, Psychedelic, Punk, New Wave, Jazz, etc., go to:

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