exploring media » Beijing http://exploringmedia.com Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 This radio show retraces the journey of the first “rebetes”, Greek musicians that fled Asia Minor in 1922 only to arrive as outcasts in their own country. The lyrics of the songs are often compared to the blues genre that emerged around the same time in the United States. The music however has Middle-Eastern influences. This series of radio shows were broadcast in various radio stations and have been shelved for several years. Photi Sotiropoulos & Vlassis Kokkonis clean Photi Sotiropoulos & Vlassis Kokkonis photi@me.com photi@me.com (Photi Sotiropoulos & Vlassis Kokkonis) The people and music of rebetiko rebetiko, rembetiko, tsitsanis, abatzi, exploring media » Beijing http://exploringmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://exploringmedia.com Congratulations George http://exploringmedia.com/2008/08/09/congratulations-george/ http://exploringmedia.com/2008/08/09/congratulations-george/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:04:45 +0000 Photi Sotiropoulos http://exploringmedia.com/?p=21 Congratulations are in order to my friend George Sapounidis who carried the Olympic torch in Beijing on the day of the opening ceremonies!

source: http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/beijing/photos/n214515103.shtml
(Photo credit: Xing Guangli/Xinhua)

Here’s the opening clip of an interesting documentary about George, produced by EyeSteelFilm: Chairman George
Get more info about the documentary and read George’s blog here: http://www.chairmangeorge.com/

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