# Markos Vamvakaris — Frangosyriani Markos Vamvakaris’s Frangosyriani (1935) is No. 1 in our Rebetiko ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it. - **Released:** 1935 - **On one list:** Rebetiko - **Updated:** 2026-08-30 - **Artist:** [Markos Vamvakaris](https://waxonia.com/artist/markos-vamvakaris/) - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/markos-vamvakaris--frangosyriani/ ## What we say ### No. 1 in [Rebetiko](https://waxonia.com/genre/rebetiko/) A love song to a Catholic girl from Syros, by the man who assembled the classic line-up of two bouzoukis, baglamas and guitar. The most covered rebetiko there is. ## Analysis 5 sections, the first drop of 2 at 0:17, 9% of the way in. - **Tempo:** 76 BPM — the pulse reads at half this too — counted the way the genre counts it - **Key:** G minor - **Dynamic range:** 3.4 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud - **Length:** 3:21 - `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy - `0:18` B · **peak** (bar 11), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other - `1:44` B · **peak** (bar 66), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other - `2:16` C · **peak** (bar 86), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other - `2:45` B · **outro** (bar 105), instrumental — the closing fall — playing: drums, bass, other **Drops** at 0:17 (bar 11), 2:48 (bar 107). A drop is a moment, not a stretch. **What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names. - **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix - **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix - **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix - **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted rather than hedged. ## Listen [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Markos%20Vamvakaris%20Frangosyriani) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=t6QBeEndBPQ) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.