This record is dedicated to the songs and dances of the Greeks of Asia Minor and to those of the small but lively town of Alatsata, in Erythraea.

Asia Minor and its Greek population which flourished there for centuries, constitute already, for the younger generation, a distant and legendary world. Those who were part of it, however, find it almost impossible to believe that that world is gone forever. The old-timers still recount wonderfull stories about their native towns and villages, and they also vividly recall the tragic events which followed the Great Debacle of 1922.

And, along with the other traditions which the various dynamic and dedicated groups and associations endeavour to preserve by studying and recording them in books and other important publications, the traditional songs and dances of Anatolia are also kept alive by the Greeks from Asia Minor, who continue to sing and dance to the tunes of the lost Homeland. In doing so, the sorrows of the exile seem to become less bitter, while, at the same time, the younger generations are drawn closer to the happy past and to the ancestors who created it.