“That’s it for tonight, with the instrumental piece written especially for the show by Maria Papageorgiou” said at the end of each “Asthma Clinic” the excellent journalist Stella Vlachogianni, who, among many other things, introduced me to it 15 years ago years the great performer since then. A performer consistent in eclectic choices, a performer of those who “oblige” you to listen to the lyrics, who does not hesitate to take a stand, as with “Pandora”, which she wrote with the Chilean composer Simba Campos about the genocides, and sings every Friday in her “home”, in the “Southern Cross”.
The 40-year-old artist celebrates this spring the completion of ten years of appearances in the well-known music scene of Athens together with her new and old listeners. Last Friday she offered us chocolates and small handmade musical instruments to accompany her and her musicians. He introduced us to them from the beginning of the concert: Evripides Zemenidis on guitars, Thanos Michaelidis on drums, Giorgos Danis on bass and Weronika Kijewska on cello.
All of us traveled together with a multi-collected program and Papageorgiou seduced with her clear and melodious voice and brought to life bright and dark emotions of human existence, such as joy, fear and pain. But mainly this year he sings about the love that “will come one hot afternoon” and the loves, fleeting, eternal or unacknowledged. “In your arms the only hope”, “on your land as if I were a shell”, “in your life I would like to live and that will be my whole essence”, “the only thing I would want, if one day you see again, it’s to say thank you for the miracle I saw” he said, performing pieces, which have been nested in the “Southern Cross”, and others by great and younger composers.
Songs from her personal discography and of course her latest album “The Last Analogous Love”. She also conveyed moments from her recent tribute to Thanos Mikroutsikos based on the verse, because “what’s the meaning of a dream without small forgeries, “because except your mother no one remembers you” and about “lovers’ dreams, in tears of poets and the laughter of madmen”.
We also singled out the performances in “Magic city” by Manos Hadjidakis, “I’m looking for you” by Yannis Spanos, “What if I’m a rock” by Manos Loizos, “Pitch and feathers” by Jimis Panousis and of course “Where to travel” and ” It’s dawning”, which on her lips has probably seen the best execution. Next to them are the creations of her collaborators, Emmanuelidis and Roumeliotis, such as “Avulos Therio” and “What the birds see”.
Info: For two more Fridays, April 5 & 12, at Stavros tou Notou (Tharipou 37, Athens). Standing ticket: €15 (applies only to the entrance). Start time: 22.00. Phone: 210-9226975. Online presale at more.com.
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