On the event of the thirty years because the demise of Manos Hadjidakis (October 23, 1925 – June 15, 1994), Antonis Boskoitis writes and edits a collection of articles in regards to the work of the nice composer
“Sirios”, the document label of Manos Hadjidakis on the then MINOS, had been “launched” in 1985 with two works: Hadjidaki’s “For Eleni” with Maria Dimitriadis and “Dionysus” by Mikis Theodorakis with Thanasis Moraitis. Due to this fact, the cycle of songs “Darkish Mom” by Manos Hadjidakis – Nikos Gatsos launched in 1986 was one of many first additionally his personal works that the composer saved for his private label. Regardless of the burden of the names of the contributors, that’s, Hadjidakis, Gatsos and Maria Faradouri the performer, it was maybe essentially the most… eutrapelous document that the composer and lyricist claimed to make throughout their lengthy profession collectively. Eutrapelos not after all in what it needed to do with its content material, since all of the songs had been wonderful as soon as once more, however with its background. A background that was informed to me of their interviews prior to now by the lyricist and translator Agathi Dimitrouka, associate and religious inheritor of Gatsos, and the singer Maria Farandouri.
The story goes that between the top of 1985 and the start of 1986, a really rich gentleman approached the producer Giorgos Petsilas and requested him to provide his girlfriend, who was a monitor singer, an entire album, which they might write particularly for her. Hadzidakis and Gatsos. He meant to provide one and a half million drachmas to Gatsos and two and a half million to Hadjidakis, very giant sums for these years. Petsilas notifies each of them and naturally they settle for the proposal. There was one downside although: They began writing the customized songs for the document with out even listening to the singer’s voice. In actual fact, as a result of Hadjidakis had suspected one thing about her inventive id, he wished them to not use their actual names, however pseudonyms. Gatsos had one other opinion: “Why, my Mano? We’re skilled individuals”…
In some unspecified time in the future, Hadzidakis realized that he could not “come out” with songs blindly. A number of the songs of “Darkish Mom” had been uploaded on YouTube in some unspecified time in the future with the voice – information of the identical meant for the singer. There we heard Hadjidaki singing barely completely different lyrics from Gatsu’s which Faradouri lastly sang. The phrase to Agathi Dimitrouka from her interview with the author in 2018:
“The track ‘Darkish Mom’, the primary one, had different lyrics, extra simplistic, which I included as a footnote within the revised version of all Gatsu’s songs. The lyrics “Hatred, betrayals and struggles” had been my very own intervention in order that the track goes in direction of Faradouri. In fact, it was made by Nikos, who believed that, simply as painters had their ateliers with their assistants, so he additionally had his assistant within the track.”
From the version of the guide “Nikos Gatsos – All of the songs” (revealed by Pataki, p. 391) we learn the opening verses within the couplets:
“Come on, good friend, mild a cigarette/ and hearken to me once more from the start/ whenever you’ve obtained love a beacon/ do not be afraid of rain and snow” (first couplet)
“Everybody, good friend, we throw a stone/ in order that it will likely be solidified in time/ plus and minus depend and meters/ and in case you discover the sting inform me to be joyful” (second couplet)
“Come on, good friend, throw away the ass/ let’s sleep a little bit till the morning/ my coronary heart’s ardour is there/ I am additionally burning like coal” (third and final couplet)
From the identical publication we’re additionally knowledgeable that lyrical adjustments had been made in yet one more track, “You had been a fountain of heaven”:
As a substitute of the lyrics “repentant I will go down the steps” the unique writing was “frozen I will go down the steps”. Equally, the lyrics “my bitter love within the loft” was “my bitter love within the balconies above” and eventually the lyrics “we discovered a variety of lies on this planet” had been “they discovered a variety of us on this planet at evening”.
Unknown element: The lyrics for the track “Should you had been loopy”, Gatsos had them prepared, however with a unique title, for an album with the music of Yannis Spanou for the voice of Manolis Mitsias which didn’t proceed. That verse was known as “If I Had been Mad” and all of the phrases within the two verses had been within the first particular person.
Agathi Dimitrouka was the one whom Gatsos despatched to an workplace in Kolonaki to obtain his personal quantity from the singer. Hadjidakis, however, hadn’t gotten paid but and was preoccupied with finishing a commissioned document, one thing he wasn’t used to doing. There was additionally the concern that they would not “eat” the advances in case they wished to return the cash if it did not go anyplace. Because of this, Petsilas notified in the future the captious financier of the document: “You already know, Hadjidakis is having bother writing…” After which one thing wonderful occurred: He, who had simply damaged up with the singer and solely such an enormous present wouldn’t need not to do to her, he jumped up and stated: “No, do not do it! I’ll give him the identical amount of cash in order that he would not write something.” Delighted, in addition to relieved, Hadjidakis and Gatsos determine to remodel the songs for Maria Faradouri’s voice. The highest performer remembered Hadjidakis calling her late at evening to drop by his home and play a few of the songs for her on the piano. Quickly they entered the Polysound studio with Yannis Smyrnaios as sound engineer and there Faradouri realized that the songs had been written in a unique tone, meant for an additional voice and never her personal. In actual fact, the musicians who performed on the document had been the trio of Socrates (Yiannis Spathas on electrical guitar, Antonis Turkogiorgis on bass and Nikos Antipas on drums), who had accompanied Faradouri to her live shows on the Olympia theater in France a yr earlier than. Piano and harpsichord had been performed by Tasos Karakatsanis and guitar by Stella Kypraiou, each shut associates of Hadjidaki.
The album “Darkish Mom” was launched in mid-1986 with a collage of Odysseus Elytis on the duvet from 1977 and a prolonged textual content by painter Yiannis Tsarouchis in regards to the musical genius of Manos Hadjidakis. A small excerpt from this textual content by Tsarouhis:
“Hadjidakis invents melodies that do not exist or, in the event that they do exist, you do not know or acknowledge them. He’s a liar by expertise. It belongs to those that serve the lack of pseudoscience, which Wilde lamented. The pseudology was misplaced for the others: Not for Hadjidakis. He possesses the nice type of music, which frequently provides universality.’
A short while after the discharge of the document, the singer of the monitor gave an interview to a newspaper the place she kind of said that Faradouri took the songs from her mouth. Faradouri, who had no thought, was knowledgeable about these statements and worriedly known as Hadzidaki: “My God, what is going on on, what is that this singer saying?”… “Nothing, Maria, don’t be concerned, I will clarify” was his reply.
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