IMAM BAILDI - Cook Book (2010)

1  CARANTINO MANOUCHE
2  BUSCA RITMO
3  ΑΚΡΟΓΙΑΛΙΕΣ ΔΕΙΛΙΝΑ (AKROGIALIES DILINA)
4  LA RUMBA NO MIENTE
5  ΛΟΓΙΑ ΑΝΤΑΛΛΑΞΑΜΕ ΒΑΡΙΑ (LOGIA ADALLAXAME VARIA)
6  ΤΟ ΔΙΚΟ ΣΟΥ ΤΟ ΜΑΡΑΖΙ (TO DIKO SOU TO MARAZI)
7  ΘΛΙΨΗ (THLIPSI)
8  ΚΑΪΞΗΣ (KAIXIS)
9  EGYPT STRUT
10  ΑΡΓΙΛΕ ΜΟΘ ΓΙΑΤΙ ΣΒΥΝΕΙΣ (ARGILE MOU GIATI SVINIS)
11  ΕΝΑ ΧΑΣΑΠΟΣΕΡΒΙΚΟ (HASAPOSERVIKO)
12  ΚΙ ΑΛΛΟ ΧΑΣΑΠΟΣΕΡΒΙΚΟ (AND ANOTHER HASAPOSERVIKO)
13  ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΙΤΟΝΙΑΣ ΣΟΥ (TA PAIDIA TIS GITONIAS SOU)
14  ΤΑ ΧΑΡΤΙΝΑ (TA HARTINA)
15  LULLABY

Imam Baildi is a traditional Greek eggplant dish; Greeks of Istanbul created this recipe (hence the Turkish name) many many years back.Imam Baildi is also a band, or a project, however you may prefer to call it, by two brothers, Orestis and Lysandros Falireas. It is named after the dish because, just like we mix many different ingredients together to cook the dish, these lads mixed old Greek tunes they fancy from their father's collection of 78rpm gramophone records with electronic sonical flavours & produced an album using samples from Greek tunes from the 40's, 50's and 60's."The idea was to bring forward some of these forgotten gems from Greek artists of the past century and blend them with modern sounds and rhythm into something new and unique. It took a lot of experimentation and loads of time and effort because what we most feared was ending up with a cheap sounding boxy beat over an old sample pattern. We focused on truly blending old and new, in bringing every addition under the old recording's skin". Take my word for it, they did a marvelous job.I don't know how this will sound to someone that has no connection to Greek folk music, or is not Greek for that matter, but I came to love this album and its heart-warming nostalgia.


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