Vasilis Papakonstantinou (album)

Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Studio album by Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Studio

Action Studio, Athens

Label

MINOS

Vasilis Papakonstantinou chronology

Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Armenia

Vasilis Papakonstantinou is the eponymous debut album from Vasilis Papakonstantinou. It was recorded after his return from touring abroad as a singer for Mikis Theodorakis's tour. Most of the songs for the album are originals written by singer-songwriter Antonis Vardis (who also contributed most of the guitar work in the album) with lyrics by Panos Falaras. The album also includes the first attempt as a songwriter by the popular singer Haris Alexiou. The remaining songs are covers: two by Catalan singer-songwriter Lluis Llach with Greek lyrics by Falaras, a song by singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos (originally from his 1966 debut album ''To fortigo''), a Thanos Mikroutsikos song (originally from his 1975 ''Politika tragoudia'' debut album), and a Mikis Theodorakis song (from his Arcadia II song cycle written in 1969 during his house arrest and first recorded for his 1974 ''New songs'' album).

The arrangements for the songs were by Kostas Ganoselis, who also plays keyboards on this album. Ganoselis worked with Papakonstantinou on three more albums in the first half of the 1980s.

Personnel

Antonis Vardis – classical, acoustic, 12-string, and electric guitars
Kostas Ganoselis – piano, synthesizer, glockenspiel
Michalis Tripolitsiotis – bass guitar
Tassos Diakogiorgis – drums
Giorgos Tsoupakis – percussion
Dimitris Vraskos – violin
Nikos Avgeris – violin
Dimitris Doufexiadis – cello
Gerasimos Ioannidis – trumpet
Giannis Elefantis – trombone

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Me to Bob Dylan [With Bob Dylan]"	Panos Falaras	Antonis Vardis	3:29
2.	"Tora tora [cover with Greek lyrics of Llach's "L'estaca"]"	Falaras	Lluis Llach	3:53
3.	"Sakatemena tragoudia [Crippled songs]"	Falaras	Vardis	2:12
4.	"Eparchia 1978 [Province 1978]"	Falaras	Vardis	3:55
5.	"Varethika ta chorata [I am tired of jokes]"	Haris Alexiou	Haris Alexiou	2:38
6.	"Sto pazari toy listi [At the bandit's bazaar]"	Manos Eleftheriou	Mikis Theodorakis	3:14
7.	"Ola tachei o baxes [cover with Greek lyrics of Llach's "Damunt d'una terra"]"	Falaras	Llach	3:00
8.	"Sto Dionysi S. [To Dionysis S.]"	Falaras	Vardis	3:31
9.	"Tharthoun stigmes [There will be moments]"	Falaras	Vardis	2:39
10.	"Ta poulia tis dystychias [The birds of sorrow]"	Dionysis Savvopoulos	Dionysis Savvopoulos	3:33
11.	"Pali vrechi [It is raining again]"	Falaras	Vardis	3:13
12.	"Fevgoun karavia [Ships are leaving]"	Falaras	Vardis	2:41
13.	"Autous tous echo varethi [I have grown sick of them]"	Wolf Bierman (translated by Dimosthenis Kourtovik)	Thanos Mikroutsikos	3:33

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