{"product_id":"vinyl-various-aman-aman-vinyl-lp","title":"Aman Aman (Vinyl)","description":"My pain is buried and my sorrow is greatHopeless things have come to my head - Dalgas\u003cbr\u003eIntensely expressive free-verse vocal laments over slidingviolins, hammered santouri, guitar, and oud - the hybridsounds of the Mediterranean in the early 20th century.“Aman Aman” cry the singers on these recordings, their voices preserved on 78rpm discs cut between 1911-1935.\u003cbr\u003eThe phrase roughly translates to “mercy,” a call of despair, but also one of joy and admiration. On many of these sides, that full range of emotion is transmitted at once.\u003cbr\u003eSome of these artists are legends, others lost to time. Nearly half are female vocalists, a big part of the Cafe Aman tradition but not as well represented on contemporary releases. All were affected by conflicts leading up to the Asia\u003cbr\u003eMinor Catastrophe of 1923, and the forced migrations between Greece and Turkey before and since. Their work\u003cbr\u003ereflects these journeys - devastating poems about losing love and losing home, backed by some of the best musicians of the era.\u003cbr\u003eDeeply researched over several years, we hear the precise, sensitive, and overwhelmingly powerful vocals of artists like Antonis ‘Dalgas’ Diamantidis, Sofrouniou, and Stellakis Perpiniadis, alongside revelatory recordings by largely\u003cbr\u003eunknown musicians whose work is shared here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eCarefully remastered and restored by Jordan McLeod at Osiris Studio, the LP includes detailed historical and\u003cbr\u003ediscographical notes by Stavros Kourousis, and poetic lyric translations by Tony Klein. Pressed on highest quality vinyl at Smashed Plastic in Chicago and co-released with the great Olvido Records.","brand":"SOUTHBOUND","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40427449876681,"sku":"471815","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/7120\/7498\/files\/471815-Product-0-I-639068858402274954.jpg?v=1771289109","url":"https:\/\/www.jbhifi.co.nz\/products\/vinyl-various-aman-aman-vinyl-lp","provider":"JB Hi-Fi NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}