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YIANNIS GLEZOS

Crossover Prog • Greece


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Γιάννης Γλέζος (Yiannis or Giannis GLEZOS) was born in Athens where he grew up. He quit the School of Economics & Finance (G.S.E.F.) to devote himself to music. His first album was released back in 1968 and it was a collection of art-folk songs of his. Since then, he has released eleven albums with more or less complicate music structures that varied from art-folk song to chamber music and Progressive rock on poetry. Published in the year 2013 on the Musea Parallèle label, The Roses Of Pieria - Instrumental Music Inspired By Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry contains twenty-one instrumental pieces and one song. Aside the rock band, additional instruments were used like trumpet, violin, viola, oboe, clarinet or traditional Greek instruments like Cretan lyre, Pontiac lyre, which give an exceptional Greek or even Archaic color to the project. It is difficult to define the music of the album, but there are certainly there the Greek Traditional Music, Progressive rock structures and the so called Entehno (Greek Art folk-song) melodic passages. The recursion to Ancient Greek Poetry signifies a conscious reference to the pure lyricism, as an artistic protest against the roughness of modern life and the absence of values and pure sentiments.

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3.00 | 1 ratings
I Eleni Tou Mai
1968
2.50 | 2 ratings
12 tragoudia tou Frenteriko Gkarthia Lorka
1969
3.00 | 1 ratings
Emiliano Zapata
1971
3.00 | 1 ratings
Haroumenos Pigeno - Tragoudia Pou Lei O Potamos Sto Dromo Ya Ti Thalassa
1978
3.00 | 4 ratings
Perimenontas tous Varvarous
1979
3.00 | 5 ratings
Afta Pou Agapisame
1979
2.50 | 2 ratings
Ta Tragoudia Tis Evas
2004
4.50 | 2 ratings
Ta Roda Tis Pierias
2006
4.80 | 6 ratings
The Roses Of Pieria (Instrumental Music Inspired By Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry)
2013

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 The Roses Of Pieria (Instrumental Music Inspired By Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry) by GLEZOS, YIANNIS album cover Studio Album, 2013
4.80 | 6 ratings

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The Roses Of Pieria (Instrumental Music Inspired By Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry)
Yiannis Glezos Crossover Prog

Review by Psychedelic Paul

5 stars Raise a glass to Glezos! This marvellous album of stunning Athenian grace and beauty is cause for celebration. The Roses of Pieria has all the opulence and splendor of a glimmering Greek marble temple at sunset. It's an instrumental re-recording of the original album of lyrical ancient Greek poetry from seven years earlier in 2006, only sounding sooooo much better here than the original. This is the greatest sequel since The Godfather Part II first hit our screens, but without an epic bloodbath at the end. If you go barmy over bouzoukis and have a passion for panduras, then you'll surely love the seven traditional Greek folk albums that preceded this one. All of the lyrics are in Yiannis Glazos' native Greek language, but that only adds to their Grecian charm - although It never did Demis Roussos' career any harm to sing in a "foreign" language, even when those foreign languages happened to be French and German. This strikingly beautiful album is the most authentic Greek experience I've had since fire station chief Nick (don't call him "Zorba"!) Georgiadis attended a Greek wedding in ITV's London's Burning series, where a smashing time was had by all with the crockery at the post-prandial knees-up during the reception. The Roses of Pieria is absolutely awash with cinematic Vangelis-inspired keyboard motifs and dazzling guitar glissandos, combined with glorious sweeping strings and heavenly choirs. This towering Hellenic masterpiece of shimmering beauty is as close as you'll ever get to Heaven on Earth, and no, I'm not referring to the similarly-titled YES album. Glezos blazes a trail through the progosphere on Greek chariots of fire, and just when you think the album couldn't possibly get any better, along comes the rousing and anthemic grand finale, "The Stars", where a huge choir sings along in unison, sending you soaring way up high into the stratosphere on an ecstatic wave of euphoria, and where you can almost touch the face of the Greek prog gods on Mount Olympus. In summary then, even if you're not generally a fan of Greek prog and you don't know your taramasalata from your moussaka, The Roses of Pieria has the kind of universal timeless appeal that will last for generations - just like the beautiful Acropolis of Athens.
Thanks to kev rowland for the artist addition.

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