POKORA Romanos VANGELIS/Aphrodite's Child "AGAPI/KORITSI" '67 PSYCH Electronics
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ROMANOS/VANGELIS: "H AGAPI MAS KIMATE STA NERA" / "EI KORITSI" (sung in Greek) ORIGINAL MONO ZODIAC 1967 PSYCHEDELIC GEM!!! The members of Vangelis' "orchestra" who play here were in fact the same musicians that would later that year form the group "Aphrodite's Child", after the group travelled to France in search of a more international audience....
INSANELY RARE AND SIMPLY ONE OF THE BEST PSYCHEDELIC '60s singles from GREECE/EUROPE.
UNBELIEVABLE PSYCH 7'' - 1967 ORIGINAL ZODIAC ZS 8110!!!
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): L 10832
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): L 10865
The instrumental versions of the songs “I AGAPI mas kimate sta nera” and “To Roloi” would in the same year also be released as a 7” single under Vangelis’ name, titles “Our love sleeps on the waters” and “The clock”. The single would be the very first solo single ever to be released by Vangelis!
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Download it from Adobe. George Romanos is a Greek artist who recorded several albums in the sixties and seventies. His music ranges from Greek pop to psychedelic rock. "Two Small Blue Horses" released in 1970.Nowadays it is considered as one of the best Greek rock albums of all times. In 1968 George worked with "Vangelis and his Orchestra" on several songs that appeared on his album "In concert and in the studio". "In the studio" the members of Vangelis' "orchestra" were in fact the same musicians that would later form the group "Aphrodite's Child", after the group travelled to France in search of a more international audience."In Concert", there are songs composed both by Manos Hadjidakis and George Romanos.
George Romanos - Two Small Blue Horses 1970 Greece": Ultra rare Greek early 70s exotic psychedelic acid leaking rocker with fuzzy guitar, phased vocals, effects, and tripped out vibe all over. Exotic melodies coupled with a full-force fuzz assault, with a nod to the Byrds "Eight Miles High". Original vinyl pressings sell for over $1,500. George Romanos began his career singing songs composed by Manos Hadjidakis inside the traditions of folk greek music. In 1965 he participated for the first time in an Hadjidakis’ album("Kapetan Michalis"). In 1968 Romanos relased the album "In concert and In the studio" was released. In its first part ("In Concert"), there are songs composed both by Manos Hadjidakis and George Romanos. In the second part ("In the Studio"), there are songs composed by George Romanos, accompanied by members of the band “Aphrodite's child". (Yes, the first Vangelis band) Those songs were the first signs of what was going to follow two years later. In 1970 the album "Dyo mikra gallazia aloga" (Two Little Blue Horses) was released. Nowadays it is considered as one of the best greek rock albumsof all times.
Its style is deeply acid and psychedelic, with some greek, ethnic elements. Alekos Karakantas (the guitar player) made lots of musical experimentations and effects in combination with the vocal distortions of George Romanos, which were unconventional to the greek rock stage of the time. The album is full of distorted wha wha and fuzz pedals which in combination of the Mediterranean touches and the excellent and solid Romano vocals make this album a great example of non western psych.
Albums like this remind us that psych rock and even rock in general, were not, since the very beginning purely anglo saxon musical pop manifestations. There were great local bands and artists everywhere around the world. The psych phenomena was global since his early childhood.
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DELUXE SILVER FOIL TEXTURED/EMBOSSED LIMITED EDITION (500 COPIES) GATEFOLD CD!!!
HEAR the amazing Greeks PETE & ROYCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g314nQVNTA&feature=youtu.be
http://www.divshare.com/download/16831854-f35 (Years before/3 parts)
http://www.divshare.com/download/16837523-69d (Long time ago)
http://www.divshare.com/download/16837541-846 (Days of destruction)
http://www.divshare.com/download/16831984-8b5 (It's up to you)
NOW YOU HAVE BOTH LPs IN ONE DELUXE CD (FIRST & FINAL AUTHORIZED LIMITED RE-ISSUE)
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2 DREAMY SPACE PINK-FLOYDIAN PROG ROCK & ELECTRONIC COSMIC FUNK PRIVATE MASTERIECES IN 1 DELUXE LIMITED PRESS CD!!! THE GREEK PINK FLOYD!!!
FULLY AUTHORISED REPRINT OF THE TWO ULTRA LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS ORIGINAL RELEASES OF PETE + ROYCE, 2 LP IN 1 DELUXE WITH PERFECT/APPROVED MASTER CD: GREEK DREAMY PINK FLOYDIAN PROG/PSYCH + PSYCH COSMIC FUNK with electronics '79-'81.
BUY NOW THE STRICTLY LIMITED REPRINT OF BOTH 2 LPs OF Pete & Royce -YES, both: "SUFFERING OF TOMORROW" + "THE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION"!!!- in 1 factory press silver CD, on the current and very promising avant/psych label Musicbazz (David Bixby is coming next - with Chris Tsanakas as executive producer!!!).
IT IS THE FIRST -in 30 years- AUTHORIZED Deluxe International Edition of these 2 PRIVATE PRESS albums that could shock the progressive Pink-Floydian world (GATEFOLD MIRROR SILVER FOIL EMBOSSED TEXTURED COVER + GREAT FANTASY BIG POSTER (with the MONSTER of the first lp plus rare archive photos and texts from specialists/fans) + BRILLIANT "REVINYLISED" PERFECT "ANALOG SOUNDING" MASTER authorized/approved personally by PANAGIOTIS "PETE" TSIROS (he was amazed by the sound, to say the least...), the leader of PETE & ROYCE!!!). These 2 cosmic-psych masterpieces, from 1980-1981 respectively (sounding mid seventies - the first one a conceptual hippie prog masterpiece and the second one blessed with monster cosmic funk tracks and dreamy psych oracles!!!), are the biggest and better Greek Rock Secret ever!!!
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On the rear side of the big poster (with extremely rare photos of PETE & ROYCE) we find a rather interesting "manifesto", written by the Executive Producer of this official international release, Christos Tsanakas (Tsanakas Archives Foundation): Absence is not the matrix of gloriousness. Uniqueness is. And this is exactly the case with the cult Greek band Pete & Royce and their sought after trippy “spaced out” rock saga. The best progressive rock band in Greece (of any era) and one of the top ones globally (of any era), three decades after its disappearance, is “back” to prove at least that the idiosyncratic and intuitive street forms of beauty live forever. Probably this is the proper time warp for lost heroes like Pete & Royce to jump out of the cosmic oblivion and definitely prove the indisputable reality that sparks in the core of their glorious mythological status or, simply, to confirm their oracles for today!
Finally, the two DIY, pioneer-spirited and rare as hen’s teeth LPs of Pete & Royce, “Suffering of Tomorrow” (1980, their absolute masterpiece) and “Days of Destruction” (1981, an arc of their most appealing songwriting uplifted to Pink-Floydian quality levels), both self-financed and strictly limited PRIVATE editions, are now legally available side by side in a very carefully produced CD (the first ever international edition, authorized by Panagiotis “Pete” Tsiros himself, the mighty leader of Pete & Royce). This digital time-capsule is tenderly mastered to preserve in detail and without any kind of “corrections” the original vinyl sound (sadly, the master tapes have been lost). As a vinyl fetishist myself and executive producer of this CD reprint of these two mind-blowing albums, I had as my main concern and responsibility to give and secure a strict rigid guidance to our highly experienced technicians (among the top experts in the world): “Please, avoid any common digital treachery, like the so called “compressed” technique or any “advanced” re-mastering, and use your know-how and the highest available sound technology just in order to preserve -with laser accuracy- the wide information my mint vinyl copies have stored so elegantly”.
And exactly this happened, offering us at last a crystal clear, very deep and wide, “re-vinylised” digital spectrum of pure rock energy. If you are lucky enough to have the too rare original vinyls, you could easily recognize the success of our efforts. If you don’t, you will just feel it, enjoying these one-off songs (raw enough but juicy and really genius achievements, all recorded during a handful of over-busy, low-rent and exhaustedly empathic nights!), this advanced rock art of the breathless workouts Pete (Tsiros) and the Royce gave away “instantly”, without even imagining that their fiery complex oeuvre was meant to be a (sometimes sharp, sometimes dreamy) example of a fight against phoniness and compromise. Even today, every time I meet the original members of the group, I have the same solid impression of uncompromised, really rocking and unique, characters, as alive and exceptional as their unwrinkled and one-of-a-kind music, this monster collective sound that wraps –mainly- the key music ideas of a very gifted songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Panagiotis Tsiros, the front-man and the brain of Pete & Royce (also a professional icon painter). “Pete was to Pete & Royce what Fripp was to King Crimson”, stated to me Panos Gekas, a famous multi-keyboard wizard and the latest member of the group, who replaced the mighty Vasilis Ghinos as the right hand of Tsiros in the “unknown” -criminally underrated- third LP of Pete & Royce, an album full of pulsating cosmic funk rock, not drained of progressive complexities and sci-fi sound details!
So, yes indeed, Pete & Royce were a “pack” of hip underground musicians “wired” around Tsiros, giving flesh and blood to his orgiastic rock vision, a blend of trippy space instrumental explorations, hard guitar biting-fuzz explosions, spontaneous communal freak-outs, strong flashy melodies, heart throbbing rhythm-bones, mystical electronic shifts and strange lyrics like oracles from an unknown book of Apocalypsis (very compatibly, two key members of another top progressive Greek group named Apocalypsis were also involved importantly in the recordings of Pete & Royce, the keyboardist Vasilis Dertilis and the vocalist Giannis Palamidas). What better dream to ask for in the rock desert of a dizzy post-junta and pre-socialistic ‘70s era in this eastern suburbia of the West World? Though, then, only a few shared the same gut feeling about the “suffering of tomorrow” and the coming “days of destruction” -Greece’s dystopian present!- with Panagiotis Tsiros and his league of topnotch neuromancers.
Christos Tsanakas, Executive Producer
Suffering of Tomorrow (1980, private edition – 500 copies)
1. Flickering Light (Tsiros)
2. It’s so Unreal (Tsiros)
3. Flowers (Tsiros)
4. Suffering of Tomorrow (Ghinos)
5. Time (Tsiros)
6. Years Before (Tsiros)
a. Maybe
b. Face of the Moon
c. Round Your Grave
Days of Destruction (1981, private edition - limited)
7. It’s up to You (Tsiros)
8. Am I Mistaken (Tsiros – Ghinos)
9. Don’t Break Down (Tsiros)
10. Who Cares (Tsiros – Ghinos)
11. Dream (Tsiros)
12. You Make me Feel (Tsiros)
13. Give me the Wings to Fly (Tsiros)
14. Long Time Ago (Tsiros)
15. Passing Another Day (Tsiros – Ghinos)
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