The caravan trucks contained a microphone, so young Aggelopoulos broadcast his singing over the loudspeakers along the way. As a child, he traveled throughout Greece with his family's caravan selling everything from carpets to watermelons. He was born in 1939 in northern Greece, to a Romany family. As a result of this, Greek Egyptians wrote many songs expressing nostalgia for their homeland. In some cases, the government retained ownership, and in other cases it gave the businesses to Egyptian owners.įor example, before 1952, 80% of movie theaters in Egypt were owned by Greeks, but in the 1960's the Nasser-era government seized them and nationalized the entire cinema industry.Īccording to musician Chris Kalogerson, when the Egyptian government seized restaurants from Greek owners, some of those restaurant owners emigrated to the United States, and started businesses featuring live music and dance in their new homeland.ĭuring this period, countless Greek Egyptians were thrown out of Egypt in exile. During this time, the Egyptian government seized businesses that had been owned by Greeks, Italians, Armenians, and other ethnic groups. The post-revolution Egyptian government of the 1950's and 1960's sought to reclaim Egypt for Egyptians. In the eyes of Egyptians, this was the first time Egypt was free of foreign rule since the conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. When the Egyptian Army ended King Farouk's reign in 1952, they ushered in an era of nationalism. The regime was able to retain its power following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 because of support from the British. This regime was descended from Albanian military leaders who governed Egypt as Viceroys under the Ottoman Empire, and they were never truly accepted by the Egyptian people. This song was released in the late 1950s, following the 1952 revolution in Egypt that overthrew the regime of King Farouk. If you like the song, please purchase either the album or a download from an authorized source. Song lyrics are provided for educational purposes. Also included is a pronunciation guide for the Greek lyrics so you can sing along if you like.įor more information about the laiko and rebetiko styles of music, see Introduction to Laiko / Rebetiko Music elsewhere on this web site. A treasure-trove of glitching, elated sounds, that takes psychedelia into a new dimension, Polysomn brings to mind the melodic lightning of bands like Dungen, the chainsawing alternative guitar fuzz of My Bloody Valentine, the sparkle and dreamscape of Slowdive, and the technological envelope-pushing of Radiohead’s outsider works.This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the popular Greek song "Kairon" (Καιρον), which was sung by Manolis Aggelopoulos, Keti Gleri, and Fofi Rasel. As the new decade unfolds, Kairon IRSE! prepare to pour down their multicoloured dreams thru your cerebral cortex on their highly anticipated new 3rd album,Polysomn. Following a European tour in 2017, Kairon IRSE! set sails for a performance at Roadburn Festival 2018, securing their name in the heart of the underground as rising stars of psychedelic post-rock. The Guardian found their music “as invigorating as a dip in a Finnish lake”, with “a sense of the visionary and sublime”, featuring Kairon IRSE! as New Band Of The Week. Prog Magazine referred to their “propulsive storm of psych rock hiss’n’fizz”, and Kairon IRSE!’s carefully crafted song structures came to the fore on Ruination, flexing a newly-forged pop sensibility for reshaping past influences into a futuristic tour de force of consciousness expansion.
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