Ouzo Power: The Band
Greek Blues: Rembetika Re-invented
“A Troubadour-Savant…you are a perfect human bridge.” – Sheila Rogers , CBC Radio,
…”electrifying “…”fiery vocalist…” – Waterloo Region Record
Ouzo Power is an award-winning 4-piece bouzouki-dominated world music blues/rock band that reinvents and invigorates traditional Greek blues, blazing a trail through heavy metal and reggae to love songs and reinterpreted Bob Dylan.
Greece’s underground blues music known as Rembetika, unlike the American rural based blues, was an urban music with roots reaching back to Ottoman cafe music, a synthesis of European music, Orthodox ecclesiastical chant and traditional Anatolian dance rhythms.
Le Blues Grec : La Rembetika Réinventée
Il y a de ces individus qu’on croit sortis de l’imaginaire. Sapounidis en est un. Il est pourtant réel, ce statisticien Greco-Canadien. – La Presse, Montreal
Un troubadour-savant…vous êtes le pont humain parfait. – Sheila Rogers, la radio anglaise de Radio-Canada
Ouzo Power est un groupe de blues/rock de musique du monde mettant en vedette le bouzouki, qui a réinventé et revigoré le blues traditionnel grec, traçant leur voie par le heavy metal et le reggae et en réinterprétant les chansons de Bob Dylan.
La musique blues underground grecque connue sous le nom de Rembetika, contrairement au blues rural américain, était une musique urbaine dont les racines remontent à la musique des cafés ottomans, une synthèse de la musique européenne, du chant ecclésiastique orthodoxe et des rythmes de danse traditionnels anatoliens.
Ouzo Power: The Music
Rebetika is the Greek form of the blues. The blues, in any language, is a bitter sweet musical genre, born of pain and sorrow and of strong emotion. It’s cathartic and visceral. And it’s powerful.
The American blues are rooted in African vocal spirituals and chants, merging with the field hollers of poor black labourers toiling in the southern plantations at about the time slavery was abolished. These early blues were not a much respected art form then, but are now loved the world over.
The Greek blues, unlike the American rural based blues, were an urban music with roots reaching back to Ottoman cafe music, a synthesis of European music, Orthodox ecclesiastical chant and traditional Anatolian dance rhythms.
