All Artists: Dimitris Mitropanos Title: Stou Eona Tiu Paraga Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Album Type: Import Genre: International Music Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 724385526626 |
Dimitris Mitropanos Stou Eona Tiu Paraga Genre: International Music
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CD ReviewsPure artistry Greekfreak | Pusan Korea (South) | 09/30/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Although I was never the biggest Mitropanos fan, I have to admit that beyond it's lead-off single ("Roza", which was immense), the lyrics, musicianship and vocal delivery make this an essential album to own, for fans of Greek music, and for world music fans in general. Mitropanos had the good sense to work with Thanos Mikroutsikos, as his compositions are absolute poetry, as stated before by the previous reviewer. This material is at least on par with anything Dimitris recorded during his Marios Tokas days. "Louna Park" and "Patision Ke Paramithiou Gonia" are other standouts, but this is a concept album from Greece that even nearly 10 years later, still hits as hard as it did when it was first released. Highly recommended." The best cd I have Constantinos V. | Houston, TX USA | 09/12/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "If i had to throw away all my cd's and keep only three, this would be one of them. All the songs together, make up a wonderful story that you like listening again and again discovering fascinating new details. This is because the songs do not simply contain lyrics but POETRY.I highly recomend it. It is a pity, I searched the internet to find the lyrics of Mitropanos songs translated in English but I could not... so I decided to translate some of them!
1. AMUSEMENT PARK The city lit up its lights and is departing On an amusement park train going nowhere. Like your body that slips away from my hands And seeks joy in the hands of strangers. [CHORUS] You closed your eyes and I was excluded I will spend one more night out in the rain I will gamble again everything for your sake And I do not care what the new day will bring. You are transforming in the streets like a Medusa And I follow your one thousand faces I submit to the laws of your love And I just ask for a few crumbs. 2. ROSA My lips are dry and thirsty Looking for water on the asphalt Vehicles are passing next to me And you tell me there is a heavy rain coming And you drag me in a humid cabaret We are walking in the same street But our prison cells are separate We are wandering in a magic city I do not care to know anymore what we are looking for As long as you give me two kisses as a gift. You place me as a bet n the roulette and you lose me In a fairy tail that is like a nightmare My voice now is like an insect's buzz My life is like a climbing plant You cut me and you throw me in the empty space. [CHORUS] How does the want become history? How does history become silence? Why do I look numb to you Rosa? Forgive me that I do not understand What do computers and numbers mean. My love made out of coal and sulphur How have times changed The vehicles are passing above us And I stand in the heavy rain and in the fog While sleeping hungry by your side. 3. ITINERANT CIRCUS I wasted my life like an itinerant circus In stations and in squares I did not ask you where you are Taking me Now I travel without a compass I can hear your voice but I do not get what you are saying [CHORUS] Greece, my Vembo=(modest greek singer in the 40's) and Marilyn Monroe Greece, my Elitis=(poet full of optimism and sun light in his poems) and Edgard Allan Poe Greece, witch, virgin and my street walker Greece, Toumba, Alcazar and Kalogreza mou =(all these three are places where there are soccer stadiums with really hot fans). Once you were creating in me a fiery passion Now you play a game I do not care about. I do not win and I do not lose I love you and I deny you And in your cliff, I hold my self from a little twig. 7. AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH With a boat named ungratefulness You set sail on a cold day And from all your personal gifts Besides the rain and the storm You only left me one more [CHORUS] An old photograph Hugging eachother by the sea Yesterday I tore it in pieces So the eyes do not see How many years I wasted. As many times you have kissed me So many times I was crucified And the only thing remaining now Is a sad chamber That I once surrendered to you. 12. FOR A DOLORES On the blossomed picks You asked for your life On the stars that are on the earth and on the sky The light of paradise. The day brakes like a glass On its edge you are walking. In company with people that stow away life Drinkers and bikers Motley knigts. [CHORUS] In the aeon's shack Lay down your dream rogue with swears and prayers and the mother's blessings In the aeon's shack Lay down your dream rogue In the hidden and humble things Search for the everlasting ones. For a Dolores You slashed your skin one night. And you nailed your body On the moon's dancing floor. With nonfiltered cigaretts and alcohol You are bashing your voice A criminal, Pilate and Christ There where God is trickling You will spread out your life. " |