Greek songs with bouzouki, guitar and baglama
«The rebetic songs show us that they are just civilized!» says Phivos Anogiannakis, sociologist lover of Rébetika. Inserting a recording CD reveals 3 different sensitivities due to the same «méràki» passion: Stelios Manoussakis, Athanasios Kyrkos and Photis Ionatos. The repertoire is chosen with the intention of avoiding the rebetic «tubes», and the interpretations being parted, according to the necessities specific to each song.
Each of the three interpretations is to recreate the ambience and the rebetic style affinity of the achievable rendering and of the conical effect to a large public, in respect of the original compositions, but also by absorbing the personal elements.
The bouzouki, the guitar and the baguette (very specifically) are the basic instruments of the school's «Piraeus» dance school.
The audience perceives the interpretations of these original compositions which font revive the occult, subterranean, sobre, and neanmoins dancing and festive sound, which is the basis of popular Greek music.

More than 40 years ago and along with his sister Angelica, Photis Ionatos began his career as a composer, singer and player and as a poetical writing translator. 

He sings Greece and the signs of prayer and epic, pain or celebration of this country. His musical writing reproduces the deep, serious and amber colored tone of a hearth haunted by the poets of the exile and solitude.
He draws inspiration from the poetical language, magnifying the deep echo of the mythical wandering through the incantatory strength of the singing.