I devoured the Jordi Savall concert series some time ago. Efrén Lopez from Valencia is also responsible for bridging the East and West together in his music and just a very nice person, overall. Similar to Ross Daly, like you guys have noted.
Okay, this flooded back memories. We are going a little off topic, but the blast from the past was too strong. There is an album series called Ellines kai Indoi, "Greeks and Indians". I will just leave this here. I know you will enjoy it.
Horos ton koutalion, dance from Anatolia:
Me gelasan ta poulia, song from Thrace:
Ti kako ekana o kaimenos, song from Epirus:
There was actually a discussion many years ago on one of the bouzouki forums that went up in flames since then (they always do, difficult characters) about how many very successful Greek pop songs of the 1950s-80s were straight up cloned from Indian melodies, it was quite the shocking find. Maybe I will stumble upon that again.
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