10 - Wounded nightingale

music by Jannis Zotos
lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis

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A wounded nightingale came by and fell into your blooming garden.
Then quiet came and your footsteps backed the wounded silence.

Now you icily hold in your hand the dead ache of love.

Now even you are ready to fly to your fate,
that witholds this night's misery
in a triumphal and dubious swell
and intoxicated by the lingering pain
of a wounded nightingale.

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.