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The Jail's a Fine School

by A. Kostis

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melton This is some legendary rebel style of music of folk of Hellas, so real though, this guy, and what a wonderful pdf lyrics set came with, pictures and everything. Really, this is top class quality to me. Thank you.
Robert Bloemkolk
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Robert Bloemkolk This guy is something else. And these recordings sound absolutely wonderful. Great playing, great singing and check out those lyrics which are translated in a fantastic booklet that comes with this download. But even without understanding Greek, this goes straight to the heart. Give it a shot. Favorite track: Ap' Tin Porta Sou Perno (I Pass By Your Door).
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Afoforo Music Club masterpieces! please reprint it on vinyl soon!!!!!
Vida Mia Ruiz
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Vida Mia Ruiz gorgeous. gorgeous. gorgeous.
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simonjeaton Wonderful and strange, stark rebetika Favorite track: Adinatisa O Kaimenos (I Became Thin).
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First ever vinyl collection of the legendary “Kostis,” the most enigmatic of all Greek rebetika artists. 12 tracks of truly unique guitar duets and black-humor lyrics chronicling the hash dens, prison culture and pickpockets of old Athens. Recorded under a pseudonym for export to the Greeks living in America, research has uncovered the musician, journalist and cartoonist Kostas Bezos as the figure lurking behind the Kostis name, with ties to the famous singer Tetos Demetriades. Renowned for his slide guitar playing in Hawaiian-style orchestras throughout the 1930s, the Kostis recordings reveal an entirely different underworld of the macabre and illicit. The use of guitar in these now-classic rebetika songs display a virtuosity of finger-picked Near-Eastern modes and unusual tunings at the dawn of rebetika, when the bouzouki was yet to become supreme.

Presented in pristine audio quality mastered from original 78 rpm discs by Michael Graves, “The Jail’s a Fine School” stands as an important document of an enduring mystery in Greek music, and a high standard for what was once a truly subversive art form.

LP version includes a 28 page booklet with extensive notes by Tony Klein (“Greek Rhapsody,” “Mortika”), full lyrics in Greek and English, and several previously unpublished photographs. Digital version includes a PDF of the full booklet.

Distributed by Mississippi Records and Little Axe Records.
For vinyl mailorder, please visit www.littleaxerecords.com
For distribution, please contact: mississippirecs@gmail.com

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released September 17, 2015

Co-released by Olvido Records and Mississippi Records.
OLV-001 / MRP-097.

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