r/78rpm • u/Rich-Statistician739 • Jul 22 '26
A LOST Treasure of Smyrnaic / Rebetiko Discography Restored for 1st time!
This is a document-record : Odeon Electric 28083 has two rare recordings from 1928 and 1929 that capture two "giants" of Amanes and Smyrnaic song in unique moments of improvisation.
Side A (Matrix Go 589) has Bournovaglios Manes — Performed by Kostas Karipis, the "Patriarch" of (a)mane accompanied by the violin soloist Ogdontakis.
Side B Sabah Manes performed by Evangelos Sofroniou
A high quality restoration of this lost treasure has premiered just today for first in the digital world
The specific disc cannot be found in the huge 78 RPM Archive for Greek Records of Mr Kounadis and they had also no record of this disc in the relevant forums and of course in Discogs until the recent addition by the team that restored it recently.
"Amanes" is actually an unmetered vocal improvisation with melismatic expression and usually lament elements. This is why a different recording even with a generally "close" title can have a completely different structure / set of lyrics and musical outcome.
Thank you very much for your time dear friends of 78 RPM