Dionysis Savvopoulos, Mariza Koch, Thanasis Gaifyllias – Today, we are listening to three rock artists who made their own small and personal revolutions in post-1974 Greece. Their weapon? An electrified sound, a very sharp and dynamic musical approach, elements of psychedelia mixed with a traditional and Balkan rock flavour. These are three artists who used not so much the lyrics – the way Theodorakis had done, for instance, turning to Greece’s grand poets – but rather the music in order to create the new idioms and the new codes, away from the dusty conservatism of the junta. In the past, here at GME, we have dedicated separate broadcasts to all three of these amazing artists. Today, it is time to mix and match their unique songs and perspectives.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou