Lena Platonos

Pianist, composer, and vocalist Lena Platonos is a pioneer from the Greek electronic music picture, with over twelve albums and several music videos internet dating back to the first ’80s. She was in charge of a number of the 1st Greek pop recordings to mainly use synthesizers, and her otherworldly tracks combined minimalist digital soundscapes with poetic, surrealist lyrics about human relationships, dreams, as well as the societies into the future. A piano participant since years as a child, Platonos performed in band known as DNA through the ’70s and constructed music for well-known Greek children’s radio plan Lilipoupoli through the second fifty percent from the 10 years. In 1981, she collaborated with Marianina Kriezi and Savina Yannatou for a forward thinking electronic record entitled Sabotage, released with the Greek label Lyra. This is accompanied by an record of Kostas Karyotakis poems established to music and an LP of Manos Hadjidakis compositions, both also in cooperation with Yannatou. Platonos produced her single debut in 1984 with Sunlight Masks, accompanied by Gallop (1985) and Lepidoptera (1986), including lyrics predicated on nursery rhymes by Giani Rontari. An version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s Nightingale made an appearance in 1989. Pursuing collaborations with Dionysis Savvopoulos and Dimitra Galani through the early ’90s, Platonos retreated from the general public for most from the 10 years, coming back in 1997 with another cooperation with Yannatou, this time around interpreting traditional like music with orchestral agreements. An record called The Mixing machine also made an appearance that year, offering Greek electronic performers interpreting her function in styles which range from trip-hop to drum’n’bass. Platonos’ 2000 record THE 3RD Door (in cooperation with Maria Farantouri) was predicated on poetry by Thodoros Poala, as well as the record was adapted right into a stage creation, which occurred on the Athens Concert Hall in March of 2003. Platonos came back to digital music in 2008 with Imerologia, which spawned two strike singles. The dual CD Live on the Palace implemented this year 2010, and 13 Music, a cooperation with John Bonito interpreting the poetry of Constantine Cavafy, found its way to 2011. Supporters of vintage brand-new influx and synth pop ultimately begun to discover Platonos’ function in the ’80s, and among her songs made an appearance over the 2012 compilation In to the Light: A Trip into Greek Digital Music, Classics & Rarities. 3 years afterwards, American label Dark Entries reissued Gallop on vinyl fabric, and an EP of remixes by Israeli techno duo Crimson Axes was released with the label in 2016. By the finish of the entire year, the label also reissued Sunlight Masks.