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This track of Aimilia Varanaki and BalkanBeats Soundsystem takes us on another migrant journey, not to but from Greece, 300 years ago, reminding us that human history is a history of migration.
* Xenos in Greek language means foreigner .
* Xenophobia means a pathological fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

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Ξένος εδώ, ξένος εκεί, όπου και αν πάγω ξένος
αν πάγω και στη μάνα μου, παραβαρώ ο καημένος
θα πάρω έναν ανήφορο, να βγω σε κορφοβούνι
αχ, να βρω κλαράκι φουντωτό και ριζιμιό λιθάρι
(να βρω και μια κρυόβρυση, στον ίσκιο της να κάτσω
αχ, να πω τα μαύρα ντέρτια μου και τα παράπονά μου,
τραγούδια αν έχει η μαύρη γης κι ο τάφος χαμογέλια
έχει και μένα η καρδιά, που βρίσκομαι στα ξένα).

English:

Alien(foreigner/stranger) here,
alien there,
wherever I go,I feel like an alien,

Even when I visit my own mother,
I feel like I impose upon her,
so I will climb a mountain to get to its peak,
oh, seeking for a little bushy branch and a rooted rock

(I wish i could find an icy watered fountain and rest under its shadow,oh, and confess my darkest pains, my sorrows and all the grievances
so if the black ground has its songs and the grave has its smiles,
so does my heart have the above, as long as I am in a foreign land)

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from HERE WE MOVE - HERE WE GROOVE, released November 26, 2020

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BalkanBeats Soundsystem from Berlin, combine classic Eastern Euro jazz sounds with modern production to conjure a sound that is sometimes referred to electro swing and / or balkanbeats.

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