The presentation of Haris Alexiou\u2019s new album \u201cTa Oneira Ginontai Pali\u201d (\u201cDreams Come True Again\u201d) on the stage of Gazarte<\/p>\n
Wednesday 5 November<\/p>\n
On the evening of Wednesday 5 November, the atmospheric stage of Gazarte\u00a0 hosted the presentation of Haris Alexiou\u2019s new album \u201cTa Oneira Ginontai Pali\u201d, released by Heaven.<\/p>\n
The event was held in association with the radio station Diesi, with 100 lucky listeners given the chance to attend; representatives of the media, friends and collaborators were also present.<\/p>\n
It was a truly special evening, sweet and dreamlike, which began with a warm welcome from Heaven\u2019s General Manager, Mr Spyros Stamoulis, to the strains of the new song that has already stood out, \u201cKaio Esena\u201d (\u201cI Burn You\u201d). He then invited everyone who had worked on the album on stage: Haris Alexiou, Nikos Moraitis (who wrote the lyrics and supervised the production), the composers Rous, Stathis Drogosis, Vassilis Gavriilidis and Andrianna Babali, and the production manager Giorgos Kyvelos.<\/p>\n
Haris Alexiou described how she came to join this new company of friends and how the story began: with Nikos Moraitis and the songs of Stathis Drogosis, \u201cthe first blow to my heart\u201d, the arrival of Rous and \u201cEna Fili\u201d (\u201cA Kiss\u201d), then Vassilis Gavriilidis and finally Andrianna Babali\u2026 the period of recording her vocals in the studio on Paros, while work went on in parallel in the studios in Athens. \u201cIt isn\u2019t easy to keep putting yourself to the test after 45 years of career, but it seems there is something very strong inside me that won\u2019t leave me in peace and tells me to try even harder,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
Giorgos Kyvelos pointed out the symbolism of the title \u201cTa Oneira Ginontai Pali\u201d, a message for the record industry and for society more generally, while Nikos Moraitis \u2013 who confided that how he would like to see Haris Alexiou in 2014 had been his own personal vision \u2013 observed that, quite spontaneously and without any plan, each of the composers taking part, in their own way and style, seems to converse with and complement the others.<\/p>\n
\u201cA great lifelong dream and goal\u201d came true for Vassilis Gavriilidis, and also for Stathis Drogosis, who said: \u201cI used to listen to Haroula with my mother, and now my wife and my daughter are here listening to us.\u201d\u00a0 Andrianna Babali\u00a0 spoke of how moving it is to hear a song of hers sung by Haroula, a singer who \u201cmeans every word she sings, and that is unique\u201d, while for Rous it was \u201cone of the most beautiful things that has ever happened to me, and above all for the opportunity an artist of her stature can give\u201d.<\/p>\n
Then Haris Alexiou, joined by the composers Rous (guitar), Stathis Drogosis (piano) and Andrianna Babali (ukulele), performed some of the album\u2019s songs live, with special guests Sotiris Lemonidis on piano and Manolis Karantinis on bouzouki, and the evening closed with \u201cEna Fili\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The presentation of Haris Alexiou\u2019s new album \u201cTa Oneira Ginontai Pali\u201d (\u201cDreams Come True Again\u201d) on the stage of Gazarte Wednesday 5 November On the evening of Wednesday 5 November, the atmospheric stage of Gazarte\u00a0 hosted the presentation of Haris Alexiou\u2019s new album \u201cTa Oneira Ginontai Pali\u201d, released by Heaven. The event was held in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n