This week here at GME is dedicated to three core features of Greece and its built environment: churches, castles and statues. Today, we will be listening to songs with references to statues – these unique specimens of both ancient and modern Greek art. Today’s track list contains songs with references to statues of a more folk, popular sound, while tomorrow we will be exploring alternative and rock statue-related tracks.
‘The statue’, a masterpiece by Mimis Plessas and Lefteris Papadopoulos, reads: “Yesterday at midnight, I went to the small square where I had met you. A statue that saw me remembered me and offered to listen to my pain. And I spoke to it about you and about me, its eyes were filled with tears and it started crying. I told the statue about your behaviour and the other big and unforgivable mistakes of yours. And then, oh God, I burst into tears, and dawn found me destroyed. The statue and I walked together down the road, it wiped my eyes and we went our separate ways”.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou