Series about the Greek music tradition. The aim is to record and promote to the audience the richness, variety, and expressiveness of our musical heritage, through the local musical idioms as well as its modern potential in the urban environment of the big city.

The show "Salt of the Earth" and Lambros Liavas, invite us to a tribute to the life and work of the great composer of Rebetiko songs Dimitris Gogos, also known as “Bayianteras” (1903-1985).

The reason for the show is the recent publication (Metronomos Publications) of a book about "Bayianteras" written by the bouzouki virtuoso and researcher of Rebetiko song Anestis Barbatsis.

A conversation with him presents the climate in Piraeus during the inter-war period and comments on the particular musical and poetic characteristics of Bayianteras' art, as well as his place among the rebetiko players of the classical "Piraeus school". Reference is made to the influences of the Asia Minor refugees and the formation of the "folk serenade" style in the late 1930s, in conjunction with the imposition of censorship by the dictatorship of Metaxas.

We listen to beloved songs of his, while at the same time we discover some of his lesser-known compositions, which are excellent examples of Piraeus’ Rebetiko song.

With the participation of the following musicians: Anestis Barbatsis: bouzouki-baglamas-singing, Fotis Vergopoulos: bouzouki-baglamas-singing, Aris Spiliotopoulos: bouzouki-baglamas-singing, Argyris Nikolaou: guitar-singing, Theodora Athanasiou: guitar-singing, Haroula Tsalpara: singing-baglamas, Alexandros Kentris: bouzouki and Vivi Apostolatou: singing.