Why The Mountains Are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960Various Artists

• 1. K. Bournelis – Kalamatianos (Dance Of Kalamata)
• 2. Γιώργος Καντέρης – Sousta Rethymniotiki (Sousta Dance Of Rethymno)
• 3. J. Lengas – Giati Ine Mavra Ta Vouna (Why The Mountains Are Black)
• 4. Θανάσης Λαβίδας – Ousak Tsiftelli (Tsiftelli Rhythm Dance In Ousak Mode)
• 5. Αντώνης Διαμαντίδης – Enas Aetos (An Eagle)
• 6. Elias Karathimos – Mirologi-Epirotiko Makedoniko (An Epirotic-Macedonian Lament)
• 7. Efthimios Christou – Makedoniko Hasapiko (Hasapikos Dance Of Macedonia)
• 8. Δημήτρης Χαλκιάς – Selfos (Nightingale)
• 9. Tchous – Enas Aetos-Tsamiko (An Eagle ? Dance)
• 10. Alexis Zoumbas – E Triantafylllia (The Rose Tree)
• 11. Christos Daralas – Pera Ston Pera Maxala (Over To The Other Neighborhood)
• 12. Νίκος Χαρχαλάκης – Syrtos Haniotikos (Syrtos Dance From Hania)
• 13. Κυριάκος Κεραυνός – Syrtos Politikos (Dance From Constantinople)
• 14. Σκέβος Ζεμπίλους – Kalymnikos Issos (Dance From Kalymnos)
• 15. K. Bournelis – Arvanitiko O Aetos (An Eagle, Arvanitiko Style)
• 16. Christos Daralas – Svarniara (Reckless Woman)
• 17. Παναγιώτης Κοκοντίνης – Kalamatianos (Dance Of Kalamata)
• 18. Θανάσης Λαβίδας – Platanos (Plane Tree)
• 19. Unknown Artist – Golfo (A Ballad)
• 20. Georgios Zisis – Patinada Tis Nifis (Wedding Dance)
• 21. Efthimios Christou – Pousteno, Boufiou (Loose Dance)
• 22. Vasilis Vasiliou – Karagouna, Gianniotiko (Karagouna Dance, Ioannina-style)
• 23. Αντώνης Σακελλαρίου – Kotta Mou (My Chicken)
• 24. Christos Baniakas – Syrtos Politikos (Dance From Constantinople)
• 25. Christos Baniakas – Eseis Padia Vlahopoila (You Young Vlach Children)
• 26. Αλέκος Καραβίτης – Kritiki Sousta (Fast Dance From Crete)
• 27. Νίκος Καρακώστας – Tzarama (Shepherd Flute Song)
• 28. Σκέβος Ζεμπίλους – Kalymniki Sousta (Dance From Kalymnos)

An inspired collection of primal and unhinged Greek village music that at times sounds more like free jazz or doom folk, feral and trance-like as it is. After years of research, fieldwork and collecting, Christopher King—Grammy-winning producer, sound-engineer, curator and writer—has gathered together from his private 78 rpm archive the most mind expanding and libido inducing song and dance music from the rural hinterlands of mainland Greece and its islands. Recorded between 1907 and 1960, this collection contains the first and the last—the alpha and the omega—of Greek demotika—or folk music.