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A. Kostis* ‎– The Jail's A Fine School

Label:

Mississippi Records ‎– MRP-097, Olvido Records ‎– OLV-001

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono

Country:

US

Released:

17 Sep 2015

Genre:

Folk, World, & Country

Style:

Rebetiko

Tracklist

A1Yannis The Hash Smoker3:56

A2A School Was Burned4:10

A3Troumba4:01

A4You Were Barefoot3:55

A5Dertlidhikos Horos4:09

A6In The Basement3:59

B1I Pass By Your Door4:17

B2Toumbeleki Toumbeleki4:17

B3Dizziness Overcomes Me4:09

B4This Summer4:15

B5I Became Thin4:15

B6The Jail's A Fine School4:22

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – Mississippi Records

Distributed By – Little Axe Records

Credits

Liner Notes – Tony Klein

Mastered By – Michael Graves (2)

Typography – Jola (3)

Notes

‎– Record label Olvido is misspelled as "Olivdo" on the jacket back.

First ever vinyl collection of the legendary “Kostis,” Α. Κωστής the most enigmatic of all Greek rebetika artists. 12 tracks of truly unique guitar duets and black-humor lyrics chronicling the hash dens, prison culture and pickpockets of old Athens. Recorded under a pseudonym for export to the Greeks living in America, research has uncovered the musician, journalist and cartoonist Kostas Bezos Κώστας Μπέζος as the figure lurking behind the Kostis name, with ties to the famous singer Tetos Demetriades Τέτος Δημητριάδης. Renowned for his slide guitar playing in Hawaiian-style orchestras throughout the 1930s, the Kostis recordings reveal an entirely different underworld of the macabre and illicit. The use of guitar in these now-classic rebetika songs display a virtuosity of finger-picked Near-Eastern modes and unusual tunings at the dawn of rebetika, when the bouzouki was yet to become supreme.

Presented in pristine audio quality mastered from original 78 rpm discs by Michael Graves, “The Jail’s a Fine School” stands as an important document of an enduring mystery in Greek music, and a high standard for what was once a truly subversive art form.

LP version includes a 28 page booklet with extensive notes by Tony Klein (“Greek Rhapsody,” “Mortika”), full lyrics in Greek and English, and several previously unpublished photographs.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (on sticker, Variant 1): 725543604019

Barcode (on sticker, Variant 2): 5055869503297

CONDITION RATINGS : G / G+ / VG / VG+ / VG++ / EX / EX+ / NM / NM+ / MINT

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Upon Request: New records can be nicely taken out of their sealed sleeves and shipped this way to protect from seam splits during transit.

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