"Songs & Dances From Free & Enslaved Epirus: early 1960's"
the liner notes:
"Philippos Rountas was born ca. 1916 in Doniana, one of 164 villages in the Pogoni region of the Ioannina prefecture of Epirus in northwestern Greece. During the 1930s he played in Takis Kapsalis’s band. The celebrated virtuoso Petro-Loukas Halkias (b. 1934), son of the great clarinetist Pericles Halkias (b. 1913; d. 2005), has credited Rountas as his primary teacher. Rountas performed in Athens in 1960 including performances and recordings accompanying the singer Domna Samiou. In September 1962, he came to perform in New York City. This LP was apparently released in a very small edition by a tiny label at 511 W. 181st St. in New York around that time. Research by Christopher King published in his book Lament from Epirus (Norton, 2018) tells us that Rountas died of cancer ca. 1978."
