''Choës'' (

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

: ''Χοές''; en, Libations) is the name of a studio album by Greek-Cypriot composer and producer

Giorgos Theofanous Giorgos (George) Theofanous (, ) (born in Larnaca, Cyprus on 9 January 1968) is a Greek Cypriot composer and producer. He has sold more than two million records and written more than 500 songs in the 1990s and 2000s. Recording artists for whom h ...

. It was released on 29 March 2015 by

Radio Proto Radio Proto ( el, Ράδιο Πρώτο) is a privately owned radio broadcasting station in Cyprus. It was launched on September 3, 1990 in the capital Nicosia, but now has island-wide coverage. It belongs to the DIAS Group. History The radio ...

in a special edition as a covermount with the Sunday edition of the Cypriot newspaper

Simerini ''I Simerini'' (English: The Daily) is a centre-right Greek language independently owned newspaper published in Cyprus since 1976. It is one of the largest newspapers on the island with a daily circulation of around 9,000 copies. Other daily Greek ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

, on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the

EOKA The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA; ; el, Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit=National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνο� ...

Cyprus Liberation Struggle (1955 - 1959). The album includes poems by the Cypriot poet and former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus Claire Angelides about the heroes of

, that were set to music by Giorgos Theofanous and interpreted by Greek popular singers

Marinella Marinella ( el, Μαρινέλλα) (born 20 May 1938, Thessaloniki) is one of the most popular Greek singers whose career has spanned several decades. She has sung professionally since 1957. Since the beginning of her career, she has release ...

, Kostas Makedonas and Dimos Anastasiadis.Liner notes,

- ''Choës'',

- I Simerini, 2015 The presentation of the album was held at the

Imprisoned Graves The "Imprisoned Graves" are a set of graves in a small cemetery located in the Central Jail of Nicosia, where 13 EOKA fighters, during the 1955-1959 liberation struggle for the liberation of Cyprus from the United Kingdom, were interred. Nine of ...

, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Cyprus

Nicos Anastasiades Nicos Anastasiades ( el, Νίκος Αναστασιάδης ; born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician who is the current president of Cyprus since 2013. He was re-elected in 2018. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally betwe ...

, on 27 March 2015.Tribute to the heroes of EOKA (Φόρος τιμής στους ήρωες της ΕΟΚΑ)
at ''Sigmalive.com'', 3/28/2015 (in greek)

Track listing

# "Fones iroon" (Φωνές ηρώων; Heroes' voices) – 2:32 # "I iroes" (Οι ήρωες; The heroes) – 3:06 # "Dio Despines ( Markos Drakos)" (Δυο Δέσποινες; Two Despinas) – 4:20 # "Simeoforos (Petrakis Giallouros)" (Σημαιοφόρος; Standard bearer) – 3:22 # "I istoria tou, mikri (Andreas Paraskevas)" (Η ιστορία του, μικρή; His story was short) – 3:08 # "Zeibekiko (Andreas Panayidis)" (Ζεϊμπέκικο) – 3:31 # "Stous Tesseris tou Achirona (Andreas Karyos, Elias Papakyriakou, Fotis Pittas, Christos Samaras)" (Στους Τέσσερις του Αχυρώνα; Dedicated to the Four of Achirona) – 4:50 # "Charontas (

Michalis Karaolis Michalis Karaolis ( el, Μιχαλάκης Καραολής; 13 February 1933 – 10 May 1956) was a Cypriot public official and revolutionary. Born in the village of Palaichori Oreinis of Pitsilia, Karaolis worked as a government clerk and a m ...

)" (Χάροντας; Charon) – 3:08 # "O megalos nekros mas (Michalakis Paridis)" (Ο μεγάλος νεκρός μας; Our Great dead) – 3:09 # "Mana (Loukia Papageorgiou)" (Μάνα; Mother) – 4:45 # "Louloudas (Dimitrakis Dimitriou)" (Λουδουδάς; Florist) – 3:17 # "Beethoven (Andreas Zakos)" (Μπετόβεν) – 2:35 # "Esy anevikes ta skalopatia… ( Evagoras Pallikaridis)" (Εσύ ανέβηκες τα σκαλοπάτια; You have climbed the stairs) – 4:50 # "Defte lavete Fos" (Δεύτε λάβετε Φως; Come receive the Light) – 3:22

Credits and personnel

;Personnel *

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

on tracks 1, 2, 7 and 10 * Kostas Makedonas -

on tracks 3, 4, 6, 8 and 13,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

on track "Stous Tesseris tou Achirona" * Dimos Anastasiadis -

on tracks 5, 9 and 12 * Giorgis Tsouris -

narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...

* Marina Verzanli -

on track "Louloudas" * Evangelos Drouzas -

on track "Defte lavete Fos",

* Konstantinos Papachristodoulou, Georgios Vlachopoulos, Apostolos Kalpakidis, Georgios Romiliotis -

- piano * Leonidas Tzitzos - keyboard * Giannis Grigoriou - bass * Grigoris Syntridis - drums, percussion * Phoebus Zacharopoulos - guitar * Stavros Papagiannopoulos - bouzouki, baglamas * Michalis Porfiris - cello * Alexandros Arkadopoulos - wind * Hercules Vavatsikas - accordion ;Production and design *

- producer * Leonidas Tzitzos -

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

and conductor * Ilias Lakkas -

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

in the studio "Odeon" * Babis Mpiris -

in the studio "Bikay" * Nikolas Ntimas -

on track "Louloudas" * Giota Efthimiou -

artwork A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an artistic creation of aesthetic value. Except for "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature ...

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Choes 2015 albums Giorgos Theofanous albums Albums produced by Giorgos Theofanous Greek-language albums