Lena Platonos in concert
Platonos 08
Some of the city kids who grew up listening to Lilipoupoli only to fall in love with Sabotage years later as adolescents will have re-encountered Lena Platonos for a third time on the Nineties electronica scene. The themes her songs prefigured with their pioneering, electronically elegant sound have risen to prominence one by one: immigrants, computers, big-city alienation/isolation. A composer who learnt how to turn urban mythology into melody from Hadjidakis and how to paint landscapes of loneliness on a synthesizer from Seventies rock, Lena Platonos has been charting her own, idiosyncratic course through the Greek music scene for thirty years now. Her refusal to work on anything but on her own terms and in anything but her own time has made her a legend: without ever seeking it, she has become a mythic figure, a wandering prophet. Which poses a problem: how can this vast ‘Platonic’ world possibly be condensed into a single evening? By inviting friends old and new, from Giannis Palamidas (with whom she collaborated on Sabotage) to K. BHTA, Elli Paspala and Martha Frintzila [L.A.].
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Duration approximately 2 hours.
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
- 28/07/2008 at 21:00
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