Ektos programmatos eleftheria arvanitaki biography
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1998
Eleftheria and her band present the “Ektos Programmatos” (i.e. “Off the Road”) show at the “Stavros tou Notou” Club in Athens and the “Mylos” Club in Salonica. The show includes ‘old-time classic’ Greek songs that Eleftheria and her band used to play and sing during the breaks of the tours, or after the end of concerts either back-stage or while traveling by bus, airplane, train or boat! Eleftheria, therefore, and her collaborators Manos Achalinotopoulos, Vassilis Ginos, Spyros Goumas, Yiannis Zeugolis, Vangelis Karipis, Sotiris Lemonidis, Antonis Mitzelos, Manolis Pappos and Thanasis Sofras played and interpreted classical songs and invited the public “to a little folk party before 2000!”. These songs were recorded and a double-live album was released entitled “Ektos Programmatos”. Sotiris Lemonides did the arrangements.
In the same year, together with Dimitris Papadimitriou, he signed the production of the debut album of the Makra Brothers entitled “Secret Voices”. The album “Dance with my Shadow” by Dimitra Galani with the music of Manos Hadjidakis is also released, which includes her duet with Dimitra Galani on the song “Lianotragouda” from a live recording at Sirio in 1988.
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Greek Music Express: THE OCTOBER GIRLS: Happy birthday Eleftheria Arvanitaki and Despina Olympiou | 17 Oct. 2024
Today, we will be revisiting the live recordings of a globally renowned Greek singer while exploring the repertoire of another, lesser known but highly talented vocalist. Both have their birthday today, October 17. “Whenever I see Greek people abroad, there is emotion, a thirst for Greek music. And now that there are many young Greeks who left Greece to go abroad, the reactions are even more enthusiastic” says Eleftheria. Today, we shall be focusing on songs of hers recorded live, found on albums such as “Ektos Programmatos” and “Live from Theatro Vrahon”.
Despina Olympiou is a Greek-Cypriot singer, famous in her homeland as well as in Greece. She represented Cyprus in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. Olympiou was born and raised in Limassol and moved to London where she attended the Trinity College of Londοn and studied piano and music theory. Today’s track list of ours includes songs from her first studio album, “The good morning of your eyes”, as well as from the “From Tilos to Thrace” live recording shared with Pantelis Thalassinos.
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Ektos Programmatos
1998 subsist album by Eleftheria Arvanitaki
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Track listing
[edit]Disc 1
[edit]- "Solo Serviko, Solo Bouzouki" (Instrumental)
- "To Ksefantoma"
- "Apopse Sto Diko Sou Mahala"
- "As Ein' Kala T' Agori Mou"
- "Kindynos Thanatos"
- "Ti Simera, Ti Avrio, Ti Tora"
- "Siganopsihalisma"
- "Parastratisa Fto Sena"
- "Gennithika Fto Na Pono"
- "Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki"
- "Den Klaio Gia Tora"
- "Oso Axizeis Esy"
- "To Pouli"
- "To Paploma"
Disc 2
[edit]- "Hilies Vradies
- "I Zoi Mou Oli"
- "Istoria Mou"
- "Siko Horepse Koukli Mou"
- "Ti' Thela Kai S' Agapousa"
- "Mavro Mou Helidoni, Makeup Lianohortaroudia, Mavri Thalassa"
- "Horepsete"
- "I Trata Mas I Kou