September 17 Last Jacques Lacarrière disappear, if not in silence, in a relatively discreet, probably the same who had guided her throughout life. Anyway, do stay, death came, as questions, indivisible core nestled in the heart of a life devoted to writing, indecipherable obsidian. Who was he actually? How did he become the tireless wanderer wandering beautiful and ageless? When source his love of Greece he tempered that fairies, princess among the sovereign, "she bent over her crib for the geometer to turn into suds, poet of the origins and genesis, hedonistic contemplative timeless secrets of nature? What hazards have made him the closest of Icarus and Herodotus, the confidant of hermits, the physician of the gods? What great works he has rubbed to become the sprightly writer and deep, greedy beauties of the world? Books, works, they never respond to these questions? 
Series of classic Rebetiko translated by Jacques Lacarriere
But stay on the side of life. In tender lover of Greece, Jacques Lacarrière could only fall in love of rebetiko . Born in the slums of Athens, in the backrooms of the Harbors of Piraeus, the rebetiko is music bad boys come from anywhere, stranded there, living in misery and the eternal love of hashish which only lasted one day, in pursuit of wild dreams that did not wind ... Posted at this crossroads of East and West, a small group of men in precarious existence manages the feat of finding no sign of encouragement or approval, a musical after its condition . What makes rebetiko music as essential that the blues which he is also the only contemporary. Curiously, something that has shaped the national consciousness in the inflections of the music of thugs and marginal, became the pace of change in Greek society, a singing class, then an art in itself.
We are not so numerous as to listen to the recordings seem sensitive and rare reissues. There are, however. Besides the discs some of the historical figures rebetiko *, it is possible, as long as you want it, to get your hands on stunning compilations that would give an idea of what the rebetiko - childless defined musical genre - from his own genius as its importance in the register of folk art. We take as evidence of the Greeks The East , disk so wonderful that take two or three titles back to tear the rest of my soul and makes me fear for the daring, to have a day to pay the price ... 
refugees from Asia Minor and Rebetez take fresh fish market in Piraeus in 1937
- Diplochordo - 1935 (The East of Greeks - Buda Records)
- Min Orkizesse Pseftra - 1934 (ditto )
- San Filo Marameno - 1934 (ditto )
Blind Test Day
Blind Test November 22
Chickenhead ( Project Pat - Mista Do not Play : Workin everythang - Relativity, 2001)
* I am available to users The Cadillac of ... who request it by e.mail, a discography of rebetikos essential.
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