ABSTRACT
Dynámeis tou Aigaíou (Powers of the Aegean) got together in the mid-1980s. Their first, eponymous album (1985), produced by Savvópoulos (Chapter 1), contained traditional songs from regional and urban traditions of Greece and Asia Minor arranged by the group. It featured eastern instruments such as the oúti and the sázi, and Greek folk instruments such as the laoúto, the flute, the kementzés or Pontic lýra, the ntéfi (a type of framedrum), toumpeléki and ntaoúli (types of drum), but also the guitar and the mandolin. In the following years they performed extensively and recorded two more albums featuring their own compositions and foregrounding eastern instruments. They enjoyed considerable popularity, and together with Daly’s Lavýrinthos shaped developments in the paradosiaká revival. A lot of the next generation of musicians taking up these instruments single out Dynámeis tou Aigaíou as one of their early sources of inspiration.
