(Ethnic Jazz, World Fusion) Mode Plagal (with Bosphorus) - Дискография (5 Albums) - 1995-2010, MP3, 320 kbps

For the buff interested in getting a taste of Greek music and its versatility, Mode Plagal is the way to go. Literally translating into “plagal mode” (a musical mode belonging to one of four Gregorian modes), Mode Plagal is a group of talented Greek instrumentalists who take Greek tradition and jazz it up into a polymorphous musical extravaganza.
Audacious improvisers Mode Plagal experiment with what’s been handed down to them from our forefathers: traditional Greek rhythms. “It’s part of our musical existence, our actual existence,” sax player Kleon Antoniou told me once in an interview. Integrating a Western feel - their smooth sax, driving drums and mellow bass - they create an aural palette of colors and sounds that transport listeners into a time warp of sorts between past and present.
These guys may not be as release-happy as their fellow artists may be, but once they get their stuff together, the outcome is bound to be your daily wake up call. Because for Mode Plagal, making music is all about having fun.
In between live appearances in clubs throughout Greece, the group has released five albums to date: Mode Plagal (1995, Ano Kato Records), Mode Plagal II (1998, Lyra), Mode Plagal III (2001, Lyra), Beyond the Bosphorus (2003, Hitch Hyke Records) and In The Belly Of The Beast (2010, Lyra). Their “crossover” brand of music is well crafted and downright radical. And their jazz-fused demotika (Greek traditional songs) are full of inventive touches that don’t mar our centuries-old tradition.

01. Florina - (05:42)
02. Kalanta I - (05:42)
03. The Earth Was Horrified - (03:51)
04. 7/8 - (05:15)
05. Swarm - (05:56)
06. Kalanta II - (05:33)
07. Pseudoichos - (05:28)
08. Somebody Is Falling... (Outside My Window) - (03:54)
09. Lemnos - (09:01)
10. With The First Light - (03:14)
11. Oceania - (07:48)

#77701. Funky Vergina - (05:48)
02. Miles' Leventikos - (07:01)
03. The Letter - (09:32)
04. Carols - (06:11)
05. Ulysses - (01:26)
06. Kalamatianos - (04:32)
07. Pikrodafni - (06:37)
08. Helios - (03:52)
09. Cyclops - (00:19)
10. Rock Around Eleven - (03:45)
11. Ivo - (05:06)
12. Solo Sax - (02:28)
13. Salona - (04:16)
14. Solo Drums - (01:06)
15. On Foreign Lands - (04:42)
16. Blazing Sun - (01:44)

#77701. Mode Plagal - A Night In Karpenisia (Instrumental) (06:15)
02. Mode Plagal & Thodoris Rellos - Once, The Birds Confessed To Me (04:29)
03. Mode Plagal & Yiota Vei - Deli Papas (Papa Yiorgis) (06:45)
04. Mode Plagal & Cleon Antoniou - Lerikos (Gaida Bagpipe) (06:40)
05. Mode Plagal & Savina Yannatou - Thracian Christmas Carols (05:15)
06. Mode Plagal & Cleon Antoniou - Peristerouda (Bossa 7/8) (02:41)
07. Mode Plagal & Yiota Vei - On Mavrianos Threshing Yard (06:57)
08. Mode Plagal & Theodosia Tsatsou - Lads Across Your Neighbourhood (04:44)
09. Mode Plagal - Three Lads From Volos (Instrumental) (04:21)
10. Mode Plagal & Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Black Swallows (03:55)
11. Mode Plagal - Lemnos (07:10)
12. Mode Plagal, Thodoris Rellos & Cleon Antoniou - Little Moon (06:16)
13. Mode Plagal - Demetro (Instrumental) (05:54)

#77701. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Improvisation (Rebab - Cello) (02:54)
02. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Konstantiniye (02:42)
03. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - The Tumult Of Torrents (03:15)
04. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Ey Zahit (04:33)
05. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Shuttle Boats (04:41)
06. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Beyond The Bosphorus (03:49)
07. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Until Such Time (04:41)
08. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Itinerary (04:06)
09. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Duvaz-I Imam (Twelve Imams) (05:51)
10. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Tatavla (07:33)
11. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - For Sappho (03:48)
12. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Erotikos Logos (04:00)
13. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Lullaby (07:34)
14. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Faraway Lady (03:33)
15. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - This Night (03:50)
16. Bosphorus & Mode Plagal - Oceania (08:24)

#77701. The Only Safe Way - (05:51)
02. 13th - (04:55)
03. Circle - (05:07)
04. Life of Panagiotis - (03:58)
05. Giampara - (02:37)
06. The Birds - The Letter - (05:40)
07. Dosto - (03:52)
08. Title Theme - (02:43)
09. Gun Sabah - (03:51)
10. Joc De Unu - (05:08)
11. Holy Light of Sunday - (09:30)