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Daily Chiofta

Storytelling Podcasts

regular vernacular insights with Haji Mike

Location:

United States

Description:

regular vernacular insights with Haji Mike

Language:

English


Episodes
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Dentistry and the violin - Yiannis Pipis - A Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

2/5/2021
In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers came in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

Duration:00:04:21

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A long rant at SNWMF

1/19/2021
Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...

Duration:00:05:59

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'Strange' Foods

9/28/2020
The things that make you go...yuuuuck....

Duration:00:04:28

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Pieris Pierettis legend of Cyprus

9/6/2020
When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.

Duration:00:05:10

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From Eve to Gus

8/26/2020
How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.

Duration:00:04:32

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Centurian Chiofta

8/11/2020
A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...

Duration:00:06:56

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Politics - the open sewer

8/10/2020
Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.

Duration:00:06:21

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Monoux - High School

8/9/2020
Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.

Duration:00:05:46

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MIDEM late 1990s

8/8/2020
I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.

Duration:00:05:40

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Nana & Kojak

8/7/2020
2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...

Duration:00:05:33

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Bitter Durrell

8/6/2020
A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.

Duration:00:05:42

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A Diblokambino called Sotiroulla

8/5/2020
My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.

Duration:00:04:56

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Reggae...

8/4/2020
My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...

Duration:00:06:51

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Xaratsi

8/3/2020
A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.

Duration:00:04:56

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Radio...

8/2/2020
One of my life long passions...Radio...

Duration:00:07:53

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Val's Place

8/1/2020
A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.

Duration:00:04:46

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The day Bob Marley died...

7/31/2020
11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.

Duration:00:05:17

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To Skodomeno - a first encounter with a Skoda Coupe

7/30/2020
Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...

Duration:00:06:08

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Chippy Riot in Liverpool

7/29/2020
Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.

Duration:00:06:35

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Jeff Trump and Riders

7/28/2020
Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!

Duration:00:05:37