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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.

"