Paraxenes Eekones [Import]

Anna Vissi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 2, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B0001C9YPO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #955,255 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anna Vissi shows why she's the best...., January 9, 2005

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Thomas Tosh (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paraxenes Eekones (Audio CD)

A terrific double CD! Here's a listing of the tracks.

CD 1:

Track 1 -- Min psahneis tin agapi
Track 2 -- Eisai
Track 3 -- Ego moro mou
Track 4 -- Treno
Track 5 -- Gyrna
Track 6 -- Paraistheseis
Track 7 -- Sa xlomo to vlepo
Track 8 -- Eho pethanei gia sena
Track 9 -- Erimi poli
Track 10 -- Ksafnika
Track 11 -- Velos
Track 12 -- Paraksenes Eikones

CD 2:

Track 1 -- Psihedelia
Track 2 -- Vaterlo
Track 3 -- Me mia sygnomi
Track 4 -- Fevgo
Track 5 -- O antras tis zois mou
Track 6 -- Mov
Track 7 -- Den apofasisa ego
Track 8 -- Stiriksou epano mou
Track 9 -- Arketa
Track 10 -- Ti apomenei
Track 11 -- Nea Filadelfeia
Track 12 -- Pos ta fernei etsi i zoi
Track 13 -- Eisai -- The prodigal son remix

Vissi chooses to start this high-energy CD with a perfectly slow tempo song -- Min psahneis tin agapi -- as if to coil up a spring. This is followed up by one of her best songs ever -- Eisai. (Anyone who caught the closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympiad, witnessed her doing this song -- with the entire stadium getting into it.)

This is followed by Ego moro mou -- and if you're not moving around the room by now, call for medical attention. (The co-writers of this song, Alex Papaconstanitou and Peter Cartriers, have done some terrific ones for Elena Paparizou on her first CD. Attention AMAZON!) Breathless, Vissi follows this up with Treno -- a nice, passionate slow-tempo number.

Thirty seconds into Gyrna, you feel you are as in much in love as your deepest youthful crush. By the end of the song, you are ready to make plans to visit Greece to spend some time at the cafes with the people who take this kind of music as part of their daily lives.

Paraisthiseis is the first "ordinary" Vissi song on this side. Yet ordinary for Anna Vissi is still two cuts above what is "good" for other artists. By Track 8 -- Eho Pethanei Gia Sena -- you're convinced that it just can't get much better.

And so it goes... If you've never purchased a CD of modern Greek music before, you couldn't do much better than by starting off with this one. The generous liner notes which accompany the CD is about 25 pages in length, complete with lyrics and plenty of sultry photos of Ms. Vissi -- who has every right to be proud of her "package."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply beautiful, April 1, 2005

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Dana - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paraxenes Eekones (Audio CD)

When I first purchased this album, I was convinced that it was a "best of", the songs were so great. I must admit that I love Greece and almost everything Greek, Anna Vissi's music included. These CDs have dance songs as well as beautiful "bouzoukia" ballads so there is something for everybody. To me, her music recalls to mind the wonderful tavernas, starry nights, the very blue Greek sea, all the extraordinary moments I have spent in Greece.

Another artist which I like almost as much is Despina Vandi. Unfortunately Amazon.com does not currently sell the double "Best Of" album that I have with her, but if they ever do, be sure to get it.

And thanks to the reviewer who posted the songs titles in Latin characters :).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing cd, September 11, 2004

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Angelo Nasios (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paraxenes Eekones (Audio CD)

Anna Vissi Is back with a new 2-cd album and it's amazing. Full of amazing songs . Another multi-platnium album.