In various scenes inside and outside the taverna where a relaxed drink, game of Tavli or a meal are being enjoyed, we hear a slow song featuring a bouzouki.
After 5 years of searching old Bouzouki songs, I’ve found the one. It’s called Fantasia by The Olympic Bouzouki Group. The music heard in the serial starts from around the 1:08 minute mark.
The song was part of the Album ‘Holiday in Greece‘, a medley of covered Greek songs by popular composers, and was released in 1969.
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Hi Anthony, and Happy New year to you. Well done on finding the music, yes that’s it. Fantastic. Do you think some of it may have been used in The Lotus Eaters? It sounds very similar. Chris Williams_______________________________________________________________________
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Hi Chris, happy new year to you also.
The Lotus Eaters was produced 5 years previous to this and although for WPTF you have Yannis Markopoulos make the soundtrack, there were other songs (listed in the Notes page of this site) that were not, generic music, classical music etc whose licensing was I guess easier to arrange.
I don’t honestly remember much if any music in the Lotus Eaters. The theme tune was written by another giant of Greek composers, Stavros Xarhakos, albeit an instrumental version of his song “Ta trena bou figan” (the trains that left), but apart from this I don’t even recall any other music unless it was generic music in the background in restaurants and so on. It had a bit of a ‘cheaper’ feel to it that Ferryman, probably because it was more studio-based.
In short, I don’t think any music from Lotus Eaters was used in Ferryman. I’d have to watch the series again but nothing springs to mind.
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