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"Akousa" and "Apolyto": Aleksandros Chrisovergis- Spiros Giatras; "Afto to asteri": Panos Kapiris - Angelos Panaiologou; "Thelo na mai" : Dimitris Ananstasopoulos/Christos Papadopoulos - Vangelis Karatzanos; "Kai me gyrisis": Nikos Papadopoulos - Nikos Vazavanelis; "Matia mou" : Panagiotis Brakoulias - Nikos Vazavanelis "Mou ipe mia psychi": Christos Papadopoulos - Eleni Giannatsoulia; "Lipisou me": Giannis Parios - Pythagoras; "Rotisa ta matia mou" : Giannis Karalis; "Sous dromous pou gyrnas" : Christos Papadopoulos - Christalla Koulermo
List of the authorsof the songs , mentioned in the factor:
A lyrical ballad My Fault (Ftaio) has a truly provocative tune, packed with dangerously sentimental turns in it. I suppose, what Nikos is doing with this tune exhibits a first rate flavor in his overall performance, which is a truly rare feature for a tender singer. By singing with the ultimate vocal quality, Nikos doesnt use any speech-like or sobbing consequences, since the tune itself has a multitude of drama inside of and it doesnt need any extra consequences to be added. As a consequence we have a faultless interpretation of what used to be written by the composer, an amazing fusion of each technique and emotion, the genuine musical masterpiece.
So, my very swift biographical writings have been performed just to make it more common to shed some pale on the foremost intention of my essay, in the different words - to identify which qualities of Nikos Economopoulos earmark his as a singer with a gigantic future and, per opportunity, to determine his emerging vogue.
First of all, his sound is particularly attractive with its wonderful sensuality; comparable to a voice of an vintage Italian masters cello or violin. We, musicians, call this quality an overtonal timbre. Amazing is that this good seems spreads through all the latitude of Nikos voice from the backside till the tip. Each note he sings is easily supported, thats why the sound is particularly even and legitimate as that of an steeply-priced steeply-priced instrument. Nikos voice totally resonates in his masks (a carnival masks coated vicinity in the singers face, which has the resonating cameras) and this option can provide us a feeling of easiness whilst we listen. His vibratos of many solely the different forms are naturally smartly controlled. All the registers in his voice appear with the so much desirable qualities: the diminish is velvety and bodily effective, the middle is glowing and noble and the tip is dramatically shiny. In opera the range of this singers voice would be known as tenor spinto (mixed lyric and dramatic), but the pop vogue of singing lets Nikos go diminish, to the baritone latitude. Not very important the top, but the so much flexible voice! Amazing that most of these privileges of his voice are consistently there, even whilst Nikos is transferring on the stage! But he knows totally smartly how to maneuver and not to lose the quality of his vocal overall performance.
While speaking of Nikos satisfying cantilena, I need to mention this in the context of his overall performance of The Absolute (Apolito). This unbelievable piece composed by Alexandros Chrisovergis and Spiros Giatras must quickly become famous as so much likely the so much worlds famous love songs. And at a similar time Nikos needs to be named as one in all its creators, thinking besides the refined lyrical poetry and a superbly-shaped tune, the charms of his voice and his interpretation considerably change this tune acceptable into a gigantic journey in the current day pop music. Here again, as in the past occasion, the singer combines his capacity to work with low signal up speech-like motives and massive breath-taking cantilena waves. For the 1st ones he uses his tiny ornaments, which sound extraordinarily sensual in the low latitude; for his gigantic breath-worrying waves Nikos just can provide what he has in his voice one million golden flickers for every note, this is often the manner his overtones work, bringing out the effect of a shimmering pale inside the sound.
I used to be eager to invite the evaluations of others and I started to exhibit his songs to a few of my associates and scholars. Reactions have been along the lines of: This voice I may presumably smartly listen to all the day lengthy or I cant trust to what I am going to say, but this is often the ultimate singer at the least in Europe! Opa! As my Greek associates say, or presumably - Eureka! if we be counted Archimedes. Starting from the middle of July 2009 I checked Nikos videos day to day and never used to be disappointed, with his reside recordings being pretty impressive. In every video clip I used to be heard and observed confirmations of what I found in him straightaway: an unusually attractive voice, a truly exact pitch and an exceptional air of mystery.
The Nightingale from Patras
Nikos Economopoulos - NIKOS OIKONOMOPOULOS
As a stage artist Nikos Economopoulos doesnt need to do an horrible lot to affect. His exceptionally attractive seems naturally make him the centre of consideration without any extra efforts from him.. Imagine, please, blue-eyed dark blond (at the least for now!) Apollo, dressed with a wise yet state of the art and soft sense of understatement. And I say all this without any exaggeration, undoubtedly in general seriousness. The inner sense of ease and comfort with himself and the happiness with what he is doing reflect in each gesture or step whilst Nikos is performing. He is not pretending and is not trying hard to hold the public amused, he knows that his work on stage is impressive adequate not to be bothered with over-gambling. At a similar time being a genuine Greek artist, Nikos generously comprises his public in the general performance process and creates an environment of a gigantic celebration for the duration of his remain exhibits.
Lucy Vaganova B(Music) Hons Auckland (NZ) Diploma Novosibirsk Conservatoire (Russia)
The actuality that this sort of massive determine in Greek music as Giannis Parios started helping Nikos may presumably just additionally be described as a blessing from the heavens. The second at which the higher public started to wife Nikos Economopoulos with Parios passed off for the duration of the smartly known TV programme Stin Eigia Mas!" (To Our Health!) of 17 October 2009. Giannis used to be a guest on the exhibit and Nikos used to be honoured to sing a ramification of vintage Parios hits. A very a hit interpretation of "Lipisu me" (Have Pity on Me) by the young singer, attracted to him more consideration from a multitude of of us in Greece and even in a foreign country, including these of 40-50 years vintage or more.
Another outstanding factor in Nikos tune interpretation is his very glowing articulation, which doesn't affect the vocal cantilena in the slightest degree. The unbelievable Enrico Caruso used to be letting beginners to as quickly as in your time sacrifice articulation so one can in achieving the 1st rate sound as a precedence. In Nikos Economopoulos' case the full factor works totally. The tune I Would Like to Be (Thelo na me)from the third album has a gigantic impact on the listeners with its words by the gifted poet Vangelis Karatzanos. The singers voice drifts here further the tune, imperceptibly transferring from the speech-like beginnings of the verses to the cantilena choruses, consistently giving the precedence to the poetry. His exact work with each word is unfolding a deeper which means that of this very important-at-first-sight tune.
Lets take as a first occasion one in all his preferred songs - This Star (Afto to Asteri)from the 1st album of the singer.
At this point I can restrain myself no longer from describing the precious instrument given by God to the young Patras native. Let me now put attentiveness consideration on some qualities of the voice belonging to Nikos Economopoulos!
This pop laiko vogue piece has a truly attractive tune, made out of down words going passages, which include the shorter down words going motives. So, in the melody itself there may be an illusion of the glowing waves, created by a composer Panos Kapiris. Instrumentation has prominent bouzouki lines above the rhythmical section. Nikos voice during this piece reflects the tune shape by developing the effect of inner flickers inside, at a similar time echoing bouzouki sound. How is it so much likely? The secret is that during the choruses of this tune our singer adds tiny vibratos to a few notes in a first rate percentage, which lets his sound to be in the foremost smooth whilst still having some flashes of a fireplace inside of.
So, we are easily drifting with our observations towards the so much desirable by readers and so much hazardous for the writers a portion of our essay we need to snatch and nail a capricious butterfly known as vogue.
Another sure feature of Patras custom is that common of us, who knew Nikos, have been succesful to acknowledge in him a gigantic skillability. As a consequence, the proprietor of a pizzeria, where the hard-working boy used to be employed, has found some musical consultants to toughen his natural gift. This used to be a beginning of Nikos career.
Nikos repertoire covers a few genres of songs inside one gigantic trend in Greek music laika (explicit Greek people pop music). In seeking to categorise his songs into solely the different groups and periods I in any case found my self buried lower than the big mountain of music, played by not only Nikos Economopoulos but the different Greek singers as smartly! To save myself and readers of this text from the flood of suggestions I took a desire not to compare Nikos to all of us and to remain glowing of subject topics referring to any device in his repertoire. I will just attempt to describe the satisfying sure aspects of his vogue by reading some reside further some recorded performances of a few selected songs.
As a tender and still unknown singer, Nikos used to be performing around Greece until in any case, at the age of 22 he entered and won a TV contest Dream Show 2, in December 2006. His faultless interpretation of the hit of one in all Greeces so much beloved singers Paschalis Terzis I Asked my Eyes(Rotisa ta matia mou)used to be a genuine triumph. As a consequence, Nikos used to be signed with Sony Music (Greece) and in 2007 his first single My Eyes and an album First Love have been published. In 2008 Sony invested acceptable into a 2d album I Heard and it changed into Gold.
It used to be a fortunate snatch: in the future, whilst rambling through the YouTube videos and being disappointed with the full factor, I determined to attempt a blend, made out of many Greek songs sung by many solely the different singers. It used to be not bad, but still I failed to feel any unbelievable satisfaction until without notice the sound of a voice I would not even dream to identify emerged. Believe me I used to be truly blissful! And I used to be two times fortunate, since the proprietor of the video rigorously integrated all the names of the singers featured on the video. So, it turned out, the voice belonged to Nikos Economopoulos (through Google more steadily it'd be found with a solely the different spelling - Oikonomopoulos, due to the direct Romanization of Greek letters.) Well, it used to be solely new name for me.
I feel obliged to describe how very important is the exactness of his pitch, thinking this is often one the different secret to the good seems of Nikos singing. I checked dozens of his reside videos and every time experienced virtually a football followers excitement, willing him to never to lose pitch. And Nikos used to be consistently faultless. This is a genuine joy for people like me: I provide getting sea-sick with the slightest indicators of out- of -tune singing. Thats why I feel very insecure being conscious of a new singer, being petrified of building this unpleasant feeling. With Niko on stage any worrying skilled must feel finest and soft. He is giving to the public exactly what is intended to be sung, without being disturbing listener's ears with so-known as neighbour notes.
I had so far visited Greece a number of times and already knew some singers and, besides we Russians, in common, have some concept about and appreciate Greek music. I went to YouTube search and in a minute found his portrait: Wow! Nikos is an effective-wanting out blond man! It is already a first rate cause to produce being conscious of the tune and with these thoughts I clicked on This Star (Afto to asteri)video. Again - Wow! Then - a few more tracksSo, after My Eyes (Matia mou)I changed into a comprehensive and untreatable fan of Nikos Economopoulos
At the very beginning of 2010 (3rd of January) the new CD "Katathesi Psychis (in my free translation - An Offering from the Soul) used to be issued as a promotional free up, which used to be offered in conjunction with the weekly newspaper Sunday Espresso. The global financial difficulty has seriously affected the music marketplace, which used to be already in a shaky situation lengthy beforehand it and not only in Greece. So, no wonder that as quickly as in your time CDs in Greece may presumably just additionally be published mainly for the promotion of an artist and reside performances become the foremost provide of a singers funds. Nikos Economopoulos has been doing reside performances for all the years he is in music.
The ultimate pattern I will take is from the Nikos Economopoulos and Christos Papadopoulos collaboration. The tune On the Roads Where You Wander (Stous dromous pou girnas) has not yet been integrated in an album, but changed into smartly known due to the Cyprus TV soap opera Dangerous Zone. Here, same as in one the different Papadopuolos tune One Soul Said to Me (Mou ipe mia psychi) Nikos sings totally on the border of his middle and high latitude and it is a truly hard technical challenge for any singer. In this latitude Nikos voice sounds in its so much diffused way, frivolously and easily, exactly as oriental violin which Papadopoulos loves to include in his instrumentation. No extra vibrato is used here, but just an exquisite overall performance of the current in-the-tune ornaments.
Now, I guess, it is a time to cease with my descriptions and to search on what we are able to cast as original sure aspects of Nikos Economopoulos vogue. It doesnt seem very hard to end that any type of laika songs he is working with (Nikos is positioning himself clearly in his interviews as a laika singer) has a quality which is consistently there: the faultless sound of the voice is the foremost precedence of the full factor he is doing. And this sound is particularly emotionally coloured, exactly tuned, extraordinarily smartly supported and it works smartly in conjunction with the articulation of the words. A attractive voice, when it's positioned above the full factor else, in classical music has a title bel canto. Nikos Economopoulos has have been given a skillability sufficiently gigantic to make it so much likely for him to be judged as equivalent to the famous opera stars and so I am giving my verdict by calling his vogue bel canto laikos. This mixture of Greek and Italian words in the phrase brings me back to Nikos biography and I see in him a new Gates to the West as his native Patras has consistently been. I strongly trust that Nikos Economopoulos is a singer born to make Greek music increasingly more smartly known all over the place!
In the tune And Dont Come Back (Kai mi girizis) - the ultimate one from a similar album I would like to turn the listeners consideration to the sound of the longer notes Nikos is developing. Long lasting, very even and strongly supported, these notes in his voice are complicated the clarinet solos in the orchestra with their well off cello/violin like nature.
Following that reside TV appearance, further performances in conjunction with Parios at the very smartly known evening club Fever made the photograph comprehensive: a so much respected determine in Greek music scene obviously used to be stating to the area: Look at him he is the simplest real! With unbelievable appreciation and respect, Nikos calls Giannis father which means that Parios role in his progressive lifestyles.
As a contrasting pattern to the past one piece we are able to take, let's imagine, "Akousa". The title tune from the 2d CD, "Akousa"(I Heard) is written collectively by Alexandros Chrisovergis and Spiros Giatras in the zeimbekiko (Greek mans dance) kind. One of the sure aspects of a zeimbekiko is an alternation of shorter and longer phrases in the vocal line, which creates yet one more rhythmical spring. Nikos voice demonstrates some metal during this tune, but at a similar time continues an overtonal timbre and above-mentioned flickers. He doesnt let his lengthy notes be ornamented and doesn't add any extra vibratos to them, but uses these arabesques for the shorter motives. The consequence is that the tune brings out a multitude of energy further an overwhelming good seems of the tone of his voice.
Nikos Economopoulos used to be born and spent his first 17 years of lifestyles in Patras, town in the north of the Peloponnese, dubbed as The Gates to the West. Patras has trustworthy historical connections to Italy and France and acquired fame as a metropolis of a distinctive custom and wonderful carnivals, that would presumably smartly compete with these of Venice. Patras barely of bohemian lifestyles vogue and larger concentration of musicians and artists offered out one the different name for town: Little Paris. So, even whilst being involved from the very early years in his familys fishery enterprise, Nikos used to be quickly inspired by the satisfying musical environment of his homeland. Here, in Patras, are the roots of his singing vogue and character.
But it's not just funds that the performances are bringing to an artist. The valuable understanding of work with the different, already smartly-recognised musicians (for Nikos these have been Anna Vissi, Nikos Makropoulos and Stamatis Gonidis) and public applause are the so much very important issues in a singers lifestyles. Nikos is no solely the different. In his interviews the young star consistently accentuates it, saying that it's not funds, but that reside performances and the warm reactions of of us that make him blissful.
I am very thankful for help of my associates Eirini Renata Eusebi(Greece) for supplying me with facts, videos and CDs and checking my Greek, Theo Simeonidis (New Zealand) for helping with translations and editing, Hristina Andreeva (Bulgaria) for retaining me updated with shots. Thank you, Patra voters (pretty Gwgw and Sotiris) for bringing to New Zealand an environment of your dwelling town!
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