Annabouboula do not know who created this remix of our debut single from circa 1987 and posted it on YouTube over a year ago, but Annabouboula is liking it.

Check out what Annabouboula guitarist/co-producer/composer (or his alternate-world alter-ego) has been up to … http://www.doobeedoobeedoo.info/2015/05/14/greek-gangsta-blues-and-punkrembetika-george-barba-yiorgi-and-dervisi/

Now HEAR this, all fans friends and fiends from the worlds of Dervisi, The ByzanTones, Annabouboula and beyond: This SATURDAY NIGHT Jan 24 2015 (9 PM to midnight… more or less) come to Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s swingin’est bar TROOST   to partake of the musical mind-bending experience that is DJ BARBA YIORGI selecting amazing tracks from a treasure trove of Afro-Balkan […]

THE BYZANTONES have a MISSION: To present a new direction for 21st century party music inspired by classic swingin’ sounds like surf master Dick Dale and belly-dance guitarist Omar Khorshid and built on the legacy of the pioneer Psychedelic Greek Funk group, Annabouboula… The ByzanTones celebrate their Greek roots by exposing the Eastern modal force […]

George Barba Yiorgi has a selection of tunes By DERVISI (Greek Gangsta-Punk-Rembetika) The ByzanTones (Psychedelic Greek Surf-Rock) and World Music pioneers Annabouboula at his SoundCloud page. Includes 3 live DERVISI Rembetiko classics, previews of the forthcoming ByzanTones release, and Annabouboula rarities such as the Paul C  version of “Hamam”:

This SATURDAY NIGHT! Will 2015 be the year THE BYZAN TONES conquer the world??– OR will it be MERELY a milestone in musical history – starting with GREEK SURF-ROCK PSYCHEDELIC MADNESS returning triumphantly to New York City’s OTTO’S SHRUNKEN HEAD to celebrate UNSTEADY FREDDIE’S BIRTHDAY SURF-ROCK EXTRAVAGANZA!! The ByzanTones at Otto’s Shrunken Head Sat. 01/03/15 SATURDAY JAN. 3 […]

DERVISI come back to TROOST Greenpoint Brooklyn THIS THURSDAY  Dec. 11 Exotic Greek Gangsta Blues and PunkRembetika… with George Barba Yiorgi, Homeboy Steve “Spiti-pethi Stelio” Antonakos, Thanassi “Ethan D” Dervisi Thursday December 11 8:30pm-10:30pm At Greenpoint’s coolest watering hole (right up the street from the Greenpoint Ave. G stop!) TROOST 1011 Manhattan Avenue (between Huron and Green) […]

Annabouboula continues to follow the melismatic perambulations of those Bad Boys of neo-Rembetica, The Byzan-Tones’ acoustic spin-off act DERVISI. Their next outing will be TONIGHT (Thursday May 15) at the cozy coffee bar Espresso 77  located at35-57 77th Street (just off of 37th Avenue)  (74th-Broadway stop on the 7 train) in Jackson Heights, Queens. DERVISI are REPRESENTING […]

Annabouboula’s offspring – Acoustic Greek Gangsta Blues revivalists DERVISI together with Surf-Rock-Psychedelicizers THE BYZANTONES in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY) for one crazy night: https://www.facebook.com/events/294714940680337/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&source=1

Dervisi: Exotic Greek Gangsta Blues This Thursday evening 02-20-14 – 8:30pm- Espresso 77 35-57 77th Street (off 37th Avenue) Jackson Heights, NY 11372 718-424-1077 https://www.facebook.com/ByzanTones http://espresso77.com/