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ABBA

Well I found always interesting ABBA's performances, but this one with the japanese kimonos far funny:



ABBA is an example of an extremely interesting band, with fair good music and an unbeaten sold records. But apart of their music, ABBA were a unique example of professionalism for the international music scene.

And since we were saying about remixes, this is a new remix of their song:



The comments are yours! The sound quality of the video, is not that great.

Music Remakes

In our last post we were discussing about remakes of old songs; songs difficult to interpret for new audiences.

An excellent, well made and well studied remake of Kemal, a song by Manos Hadjidakis from album Reflections, is the following tune by Raining Pleasure:



Many Congratulations to these young guys, attempting a difficult music piece. With no doubts, a magnificent work! The vocals are pretty good and unique. The music is quite technical as always Manos Hajidakis might wanted.

For your comparison, please have look at the original version of the song here: Kemal by Manos Hadjidakis. . Sorry they have disabled any outside embeding.

Raining Pleasure is a promising, young band from Greece. Some nice tunes that you might be interested in, are: Fake, Dancing Queen (a remake of Abba's song) and Capricorn. The last one is very strong pop, english influenced song. You will find that songs either in youtube or in their website.

I hope that you enjoy summer and you find blog's music posts interesting.

In the meantime if you are looking for a house in Greece, please visit the website: Properties in Greece. But Greece is not only Summer, is also Culture :)

I will post soon with more music lines.

Music Again

The last days there is a great debate in Greece regarding the following remake



of the famous song of Mr. Mikis Thodorakis and Mr. Giannis Ritsos Otan Simanoun Oi Kampanes. The band is named Blue, and is quite popular among young people in Greece. The new version has been made with Mikis Thodorakis permission. The original version is available here:



where a very interesting performance of the same song can be found here:



Please note how the audience dances and signs; magnificent.

The debate now is focused on whether such important and prestigious songs need any such remakes. My opinion is that music always seek new contributions and new interpratations of old meanings and works. Therefore the remake in advance, as an action, is not against of any rule of music. Of course this does not mean that we should force our selves to love any remake because is using modern electronic tunes and sounds.

To be honest, I did not dislike the remake, but I do believe that the tune fails somehow to reflect song's history and lyrics. The music is modern, but is open to question if matches with the song and many times sounds very predictable. But anyway, because I strongly hate misery, I am open for new sounds and experiments. Therefore, I am not declining it already.

I hope that there are more remakes to come.

I am interested to hear your comments and very soon I will present you more remakes of famous Greek sounds.

The summer is here

There is no doubt! The summer is here, and we enjoy its first weeks. Because many times pictures describe things better than any narration, I will post some photos from Santorini:













Some things to note. Please have a careful look at Santorini's land. Its colour due to the ancient volcano of the island is something unique. Another thing to point is the dense building at the main town of Santorini. One small house near to another small house. Prices in the center of Santorini due to its unique sea view are sometimes very expensive. But you could find other places with unique sea views in other places of Santorini. If you are looking for a house in Santorini and you need some advice, please hold off this website: House for sale in Santorini.

ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL 2009!

ROCK WAVE FESTIVAL 2009

The moment is here!
Another Rock Wave Festival is going to take place in a few days!

The doors will open in three days, 27th of June and the journey to the music lasts till the 30th of June.
Rock Wave Festival take place in Terra Vibe. It is located in the 37 km of National Road Athens – Lamia, and the main entrance is from the slip of the National Road with direction to Lamia.

The festival has two stages and it will host 35 of the most famous groups and artists. Like: PLACEBO, MOBY, GOGOL BORDELLO, RAINTEAR, MASTODON, TORCHE, SAXON, EDEN JAMES, JAMERLLADA, SCAR OF THE SUN, GAD, DUFFY, THE KILLERS MOTLEY CRUE AND MONSTER MAGNET.

Rock Wave Festival has a history of thirteen years!
It is member of YOUROPE (formal European Association of the bigger festivals, with the strictest integration criteria).

Rockwave's festival webpage can be found here: Rockwave

Hope to meet you in Terra Vibe!
ENJOY!

Impressions

Dear All,

In this post I would like to express some thoughts regarding last night's opening of the new musuem of Acropolis. I will summarize my thoughts as a collection of points:

• A great night for the cultural life of Athens. The museum was a strong demand of the Greek society for about 30 years. This museum at least for now, hosts our hopes that the Greek society and its authorities will appreciate and realize the importance of studying and promoting the history of the Greek Land. Its was a night of hope, of future expectations and just Great!
  
• I will say that I was not that much happy how the issue about the conflict between the Greek Goverment and the British Museum was presented. First of all, I do not like by anyway English to be declared as thiefts or barbarians due to Elgin's actions (Elgin Wiki page). Elgin's actions might be considered as illegal or against the long history of Athens and it is bit shame to accuse any British for this. I am sure that the majority of Greeks, respect the English history and recognize Britain's role for our independence (Navarino Battle). I am sure as well, that many Greeks believe that the British Democracy can extensively discuss the return of Parthenon Marbles to Athens by suggesting a mutual solution. I felt that we need these words for limiting the conflict between the British Museum and Acropolis Museum instead of presenting it as a conflict between England and Greece.
  
• Now back to the solutions. Regarding the marbles, I feel that we need to state the problem as a modern international issue that everybody hopes and aims to solve. And the solution is quite technical. It would be very interesting for instance if Greek and U.K. universities together with the directions of the British and Acropolis museums to investigate a way for merging the seperated parts and exposing them both in Athens and in UK. In technical and scientific terms, this merging is very challenging.
  
• By concluding this post, I would like to point that now is also the right time for the society of Athens to build Athens around this museum by improving the public services, by improving the quality of transpotation and the urban planning of the city.
  

I hope that I explained at last, that the existence of this museum is a need of the global society and it should not be used for enhancing the conflict (if there is any) between Greece and England. We had bad times and we have some bad times. England has its own bad times and for sure modern bad moments. Lets look forward for a better future. We need it!

I will appreciate your comments.