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Greek éntekhno (art) music

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Entekhno or art music arose in the late 1950s. It began as orchestral music with elements from Greek folk rhythm and melody and it's lyrical themes were often based on the work of famous Greek poets. Some famous artists (composers and singers) include: Manos Hatzidakis, Manos Loïzos, Yannis Markopoulos, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Dimos Moutsis. Mimis Plessas, Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos, Nikos Gatsos, Manos Eleftheriou, Haris Alexiou, Giorgos Dalaras, Maria Dimitriadi, Maria Farantouri, Manolis Mitsias, Nana Mouskouri,Nena Venetsanou


Contemporary art music started using rock and blues sounds as well. It's concerts often take place outside a hall or a night club, in the open air. Here are some famous artists: Eleftheria Arvanitaki,
Haris Alexiou, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Katsimihas Brothers, Stamatis Kraounakis, Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Savina Yannatou, Sokratis Malamas, Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Nikos Papazoglou, Alkistis Protopsalti, Tania Tsanaklidou, Giannis Haroulis


Blues-rock / prog rock / art rock ('70s–'80s): Socrates Drank the Conium, Aphrodite's Child, Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Spyridoula (band), Nikolas Asimos, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Dimitris Poulikakos


Here are some of my favorite art music songs, I even translated them. Enjoy!


1. Do love me do- Paulos Sidhropoulos





I write to you again because I need to


The time is 5 in the morning


The only thing left standing


Ιn the world is you



What do I need their honors for?


Their theatrical words?


In my mind's screen


Dead paper idols



Do love me do


As much as you can, do love me do


Do love me do


As much as you can, do love me do



Looking in the mirror


I see a familiar face


And maybe his ugliness will vanise


Once I wash and shave



The breath stinks of cigarettes


And my mind gets burdened from all the things


On the wall some Mona Lisa


Brings you even closer



Do love me do


As much as you can, do love me do


Do love me do


As much as you can, do love me do



Even though this letter ends


my need doesn't stop


Like the bird on the wire


like the bum who wanders



I want you to come and ignite me


To tell me a fairytale


Like the mother earth to embrace me


Like a white light to come again


2. Aura-Dimitris Panagopoulos




When I go out the door


I 'll see the round sun


and with your pretty last smile



I'll tell you good morning


Then I 'll go, I'll get lost


And maybe you 'll see me only in your dream



Because I'm wind passing


Through the town's streets


And makes the closed windows screech



Because I'm aura vespertine


Clear alive breath


That makes the fallen leaves rustle



I'm leaving high in the mountain


Then I fall down the cliff


Αnd Ι swing in the high and the low



And I carry through the silence


An unbowed holler


And some untold hope you 've hidder


3. I break down- Nikolas Asimos




You roam the streets, you go with the freaks


And you exhaust me psychologically


You started mentioning the feminists



You serched for independence


You go with anyone and everyone you find


So why should I love you?



I break down and can't take it any more


I 'll fall in love with Papandreou, with Eftaim and Zorro


And won't love a female ever again



First with a left wing follower, then with a christian


With a randy muslim


And she made me a flamboyant junkie



Excuses are needness


And about experiences you had enough


Hey, come on make it clear what you want



I break down you take it too far


How to avoid the inevitable I became a cuckold


My free love do you hurt?



It's in vogue who will cripple whom


Era of the wheel and the nuclears


So, I sit down and get kicked



One but a lion, and all you are cheeses


I won't tolerate another stab anymore


Hmm, where did I find such courage?



I break down and can't take it any more


I 'll fall in love with Papandreou, with Eftaim and Zorro


And I won't love a female ever again


4. South- Laurentis Maxairitsas and Mpampis Stokas




There at the south
Where death is creaking and love is crashing
I was travelling for years like an empty seat
Searching for the right body


There at the lights
The night was finding her first signals
I run out of cigarettes and compassion
And you gave me tobacco for free with a kiss


Which city, which country
is travelling you now
you get quiet, you remember
and you are laughing during sleeping because you are drunk
Which city, which country
is travelling you now


There at the south
That’s where love drew the lottery
Convoluted like a lizard at its shadow
I was falling in your dark abyss like a coin


Your poverty
Was lighting pale candles
And was feeding them with jealousy
Your groans where spelling your “I love you”
Like a sick baby at his bedchamber


Which city, which country
is travelling you now
you get quiet, you remember
and you are laughing during sleeping because you are drunk
Which city, which country
is travelling you now


5. There's no way I'd cry- Giannis Aggelakas




There's no way I'd cry
They say that if I leave this circle, I'll get lost
I must only walk around its borders
and that the world is an untamable beast
and when it bites I should stay silent


And when they are afraid that I'm going crazy
they say I should go somewhere and start crying
and I should remember that I'm too small to change this situation.


But I'll do my wild proud dance
and I'm going to fly over the sadness
There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared


I'll build a nest in the sky
I will get down when I want to laugh
There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared


They say that if I go any higher I'll feel dizzy
I should better welter here in the mug with them
And if I want to see something more
I should better start looking myself in the mirror


And when they are afraid that I'm going crazy
they say I should go somewhere and start crying
and I should remember that I'm too small to change this situation.


But I'll do my wild proud dance
and I'm going to fly over the sadness There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared


I'll build a nest in the sky
I will get down when I want to laugh
There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared There's no way I'd cry, there's no way I'd be scared


6. Hamlet of the Moon-Christos Thivaios




You fooled the heavens with black fire spells
That life can just be given away and not get derailed
And all the madmen's words, which were our words,
You would enchant with drugs in the dissolute silence


You'd mourn with the cupids, naked and drunk
Because you had unfinished business with the immortals
Defeated, you'd stutter the arias of an opera
A student from a province in front of two prophecies


Why did you have to envy, and what good did it do you, the glorious cities like Paris
The whole world is just a drug den now, anyway
You staked a claim to the miracles that hashish gives
And the hallucinations of those that live inside prisons


And one night, when you dressed up as Hamlet of the Moon
You blew out the stage lights
And you started soliloquising and solving riddles
Of an art and an era that's old and dark


Why did you have to envy, and what good did it do you, the glorious cities like Paris
The whole world is just a drug den now, anyway
You staked a claim to the miracles that hashish gives
And the hallucinations of those that live inside prisons

Greek éntekhno (art) music
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