A dive into… the behind-the-scenes of the documentary “Stay in Kyttaros – Rock Scenes” on the event of right now’s live performance that shall be given by Thodoris Kotonias in Technopolis.
It’s the winter of 2005. The filming of the music documentary “Stay within the Cell – Rock Scenes” is about to be accomplished. The Distant Cousins, the band of the songwriter and performer Thodoris Kotonias, have impressed me with their pure folk-rock sound and accepted my proposal to grow to be the backing band of the movie, working with Thanasis Gaifillias, Despina Glezou, Heraklis Triantafyllidis and the remainder of the pioneering artists of the Greek rock scene. At the moment we have been in shut firm with Kotonias at his home in Drapetsona. Wine events, lambs despatched to him by his household from the village, coffees and cigarettes, but additionally discussions about Wishbone Ash, “Dimitrakis the Morrison” and “Giannoula the Joplin”, as he characteristically mentioned together with his humor. We go into modifying and one afternoon, all the time in Drapetsona, I ask Kotonias to compose the track for the top credit of the documentary. “Sure, however we are going to write the lyrics collectively” he suggests and instantly picks up the guitar. It was the primary time I might attempt to write lyrics for my very own work, however with the enter of an artist my age, who objectively wrote and writes wonderful lyrics.
“On Epirou Road” I start to say… “A voice of infinity” Kotonias continues. And we conclude: “Lights on the stage/ now darkish/ however deep in her cell/ she is alive”. The refrain interjects: “I’ve bought a solar/ like an outdated vinyl/ scratch deep/ however it will not be misplaced” and so forth., to shut with the second stanza: “It is my time like my guilt/ reminiscences of naughty kids’s songs/ drunk from the nectar of some flowers’.
The track ends on the spot with Kotonias composing the melody that our lyrics gave delivery to and we give it the title “Like an outdated vinyl”. Just a few days later we invite to the studio Leda Chalkiadakis from Leda – Spyros of the 70s, who turns into the voice of the track accompanied by the electrical sound of the Distant Cousins. In truth, within the finale of the Leda – Thodori duet, our laughs from the entire course of are recorded and they’re additionally included within the ultimate combine. Twenty years have handed since then, Kotonias and I misplaced our method, as is customary amongst individuals, however I all the time observe him and respect his expertise. The identical applies to his vital contemporaries, similar to Giorgos Dalaras, who took him near them and introduced him to the forefront of our trendy songwriters.
I need to go to Technopolis right now, to the “Me boat within the coronary heart” live performance, with which Kotonias will have a good time his twenty years in discography. And there, with emotion, I’ll keep in mind the filming, our outdated friendship and the one and solely track we deserved to make collectively.
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Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, Piraeus 100 & Persephone, Gazi
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