08 - Voice of silence

music by Jannis Zotos
lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis

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Intoxicated is the sun
fragmented is the earth
like an ancient shipwreck
and again there is this void
with its taste of plenty.

Time is an orphan,
it silently prays
one voice, one voice only
as if not to displease silence.

Ancient shipwreck
like the stars ashamed - hurt
by the void,
the void with the spirit of plenty,
intoxicated by the voice,
the voice of silence.

(Buenos Aires, 1973)

Mikis Theodorakis ...

... once told me "if I were 20 years younger I would have become a rock musician".

With this sentence in my ear, I only recorded all songs with an electric guitar, a 53 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop.

It is very difficult to choose songs from the huge fund of his work. It is significant that I always go back to three cycles when searching because they make me emotionally very agitated:
"Ta Lyrica" (1976) (which in the broadest affect my own story or that of my parents), "Ilios kai Chronos" (1967) and "Lipotaktes" (1952-57).

I thank my brother Thanasis for wonderfully supporting me vocally, I thank Wolfgang Loos for the fantastic mix, Michael Rodach for his mental support, Angelika for her whistling skills in "Phaedra" and most of all I thank you, Mikis, for your songs and the time I spent with you.