Phos [Import]

Track Listings

1. Starvation

2. Queen Of The Universe

3. Every Dream Comes To An End

4. The Bride

5. Killer

6. A Day In Heaven

7. Time Of Pain

8. Mountains

Phos,Socrates,Rap

Phos [Import]

Tracks:

Humbly I adore Thee
O Sons and Daughters
Call to Prayer
Phos Hilaron
Anoint and Cheer
Song of Gladness
Kyrie
Oneness
The Mystery Telling
O Heavenly Word

Product Description

Produced by the Grammy Nominated artist Paul Avgerinos, Phos Hilaron ( foss hill-a-ron ) is a deeply devotional ambient soundscape setting ancient Sacred Hymns sung in English within a tasteful modern accompaniment . The title hymn, Phos Hilaron , dates back to the first century .

Customer Reviews:

Old Meets New!?.......2006-02-01

When I was younger and sat in church every Sunday I truly enjoyed the peace and calm Gregorian Chants offered me. Fast forward several dozen years and I discovered that same kind of peace and contentment in New Age Music. Paul Avgerinos merges these two formats in Phos Hilaron to create a nicely blended sound that is heavy on the New Age side. It is like a Bloody Mary that takes ones's beloved vodka and mixes it with just the right amount of tasty tomato juice to create a whole new sensation. Phos Hilaron may not be the best of both worlds but it is a pretty satisfying musical Bloody Mary anyhow.

The thinking man's new age.......2005-08-02

Paul Avgerinos is the renaissance master of modern new age, a classically trained artist who brings to his projects experience, learning, and a passion to communicate with listeners. His latest recording, Phos Hilaron, is a richly textured collection of performances based on Christian hymns, an obviously personal statement of faith. One listen will convince you that this music is from someone who wishes to create as much with his heart as with his head.

Music to feed your soul.......2005-08-01

Paul Avgerinos' Phos Hilaron is stunning. It is music that is not only heard by the ear, but by one's soul. The entire CD is an experience of centering and calming and reassuring the listener that there is a place of great beauty and sacredness within him/herself and it is a place where one can go anytime.
Although based on a very early Christian hymn, this music transcends those roots to speak to all people of all spiritual paths.

Paul does it again! .......2005-07-16

I've followed Paul's music for many, many years now and each release shows his growth as a person and a musician. PHOS HILARON is AWESOME! It's a cross between Gregorian and New Age and is wonderful to use in almost any setting. I use it while reading or just as background music for my day. It's also great to just sit and listen (with headset is best) and hear the subtle nuances Paul is so good at creating! I HIGHLY recommend it! Rev. Ronald G. Cosseboom

Jon Nipp - www.Spirit-Within-New-Age-Radio.com.......2005-07-04

Need to chill out? Paul's music is different than most: it makes me think of when you drive out to the middle of nowhere to get away from it all and the only sounds you hear are the constant whisper of a gentle wind humming through the blades on a windmill, while a nearby stream quietly and endlessly dances past you. Suddenly you realize you've been sitting there staring off into vast fields of golden wheat and without a single thought for hours.We highly recommend Paul's music for your new age music collection.

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Greece's greatest rock band
Perhaps Socrates' finest moment and one of the most influential Greek rock albums ever

Phos
Socrates
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NMZ7
Release Date: 2007-05-24

Tracks:

Starvation
Queen Of The Universe
Every Dream Comes To An End
The Bride
Killer
A Day In Heaven
Time Of Pain
Mountains

Customer Reviews:

Greece's greatest rock band.......2006-05-08

BAND'S HISTORY BY MATT BARRETT

Socrates Drank The Conium

Socrates will probably never get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But while other groups were becoming well known in the free world, this Hendrix-style blues band was playing to standing-room-only crowds in a small club in Athens, during Greece's military dictatorship, a period when even Rolling Stone albums were hard to find, and for a time illegal.

by Matt Barrett

Socrates was Yannis Spathas and Antonis Tourkoyorgis on guitar and bass respectively. During the period that they were playing in the Kitarro Club they went through several drummers including George Trantalidis, all of them terrific. In Athens during the early seventies, when the 1967 military dictatorship was still in control, there were a number of rock clubs in the area around Victoria Square and in the Plaka. Poll and Morka played at the Elaterion. Socrates and Exidaktilo played at the Kitarro. As Dorian Kokas, the founder and leader of Morka told us one night "We used to race through our set and play everything fast so we could get out early and go to the Kittaro and catch the last set of Socrates." Musicians loved Socrates.

Socrates sounded like several bands that were popular at the time, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, and Black Sabbath come to mind now when I hear their music from that early period, though the majority of their material was original. There were songs that were crowd favorites such as "Close the Door and Lay Down", "Starvation" and "Underground", but often the highlight of the evening was when they did their Hendrix songs like "Voodoo Chile", "Message of Love" and "Red House" or jammed on songs like "Kansas City" with singer Jimi Quidd (later of the NY Dots) and Greek-American blues guitarist John Kronis.

Spathas played a Fender Strat, long straight hair hanging down almost to the guitar, he was motionless except for his hands which effortlessly ripped out the most fluid, solos and riffs. He always hooked the chord to his amp over the bottom cutaway so he would not step on it and pull it out during a solo, I suppose. It was sort of his trademark in a way and we would watch him tune up and wait for him to do it which meant to us that the music was about to begin. He would play some mind-boggling riff to make sure the volume was right or the guitar was in tune and they would be off. Antonis Tourkoyorgis played bass and sang and if Spathas gave the appearance of being introverted he was the complete opposite. He was also a great bass player. The powerful sound this little three-piece band with their stacks of Marshalls put out in the Kittaro kept us coming back night after night. In all honesty I have to say that to this day I have not heard any band, three-piece or more, fill as much musical space. Seeing the Who in 1976 I found myself comparing them to Socrates. OK, the Who is the Who. But apart from the personalities, the songs I knew and the flamboyance, were Townshend, Entwhistle and Moon as good a band as Socrates? No way. Led Zepplin? Nope. You'd have to ask someone who had seen Hendrix or Cream to make the judgement about those bands but I can't imagine anyone being better than Socrates on a good night and as far as those nights in the Kittaro went I don't think they ever had a bad night. They were too good to have a bad night.

What made them so remarkable was the guitar playing of Spathas. Even today listening to the solos he played in 1972 I still can't believe the music he was making. Brent Lambert of Kitchen Mastering, quite a guitar player himself, after hearing several Spathas solos from thirty years ago said "If this guy had come to America he would be a guitar hero and everyone would know his name." If you liked the way Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen play you will love Spathas and if you play guitar yourself you will wonder "If this was thirty years ago and he is still playing how good must he be now?"

Socrates made two albums as a three-piece, both pretty awful because of poor mixing and mastering though the songs and performances were good. In those days producers had no idea what to do with a group like Socrates. It would be like recording Rage Against The Machine after spending 20 years doing Herman's Hermits. Later the group added a lead singer and different variations of guitarists, keyboards. At one time both Spathas and Tourkoyorgis played guitars. Vangelis Papathanasiou, otherwise known as Vangelis joined them for an album and made them more of a progressive-rock band with lots of keyboard, synth and guitar interweavings. But the three-piece version of the band's first two albums and the original rock-blues style was probably their best shot at world fame.

Socrates still plays. They are again a three-piece with Spathas and Tourkogiorgis joined by Makis Gioulis, a fine drummer in the traditon of the band. Asteris Papastamatakis plays keyboards on some material and a female vocalist named Markela Panagiotou, harmonizes and does duets with Tourkogiorgis and sings a couple songs on her own. Still the best part of the night for me is when the band strips down to the core of guitar-bass-drums and they play the old songs from the Kittaro or jam on some Hendrix tunes. Maybe I am just nostalgic but I can't help listening to them and thinking of what might have been. Had it not been for the fact that they were at their prime during the dictatorship then maybe Greece might have been known as the country that gave us Socrates instead of Yanni. Then again oppression can breed great art as an instrument of rebellion. Socrates with their long hair, beards and high-energy blues and rock and roll were a window on the world outside and the reason people crammed into the Kittaro every weekend. For that reason they belong alongside the great bands of Rock and Roll History.

Essential discography:
-Socrates drank the conium (1972, Polydor)
-Taste of conium (1972, Vertigo)
-On the wings (1973, Polydor)
-Phos (1976, Vertigo)

Perhaps Socrates' finest moment and one of the most influential Greek rock albums ever.......2005-09-19

After shortening their name to "Socrates" from the original "Socrates Drank The Conium", Greece's favorite and most famous rock trio collaborated with former Aphrodite's Child keyboard wizard Vangelis Papathanassiou (yes, THAT Vangelis) for this album, which is arguably their magnum opus and the closest they've ever come to the progressive rock genre. Lush, atmospheric keyboards enhance the intricate arrangements, which are on par with the best the international rock, hard rock and progressive rock could offer at the time. The only gripe is the wiry, weak and nasal tone of Yiannis Spathas' guitar. "Killer" is actually a reworking of the frenetic, driving "Death Is Gonna Die" from their previous effort, "On The Wings"; don't confuse it with Adamski's dance hit. "Mountains" is perhaps the finest example of how an electric guitar can be used to play a traditional improvised Greek clarinet solo. "Queen Of The Universe" is just what a love song should be, sensitive and heartfelt, without being mushy and corny - and it also has a gorgeous melody. "Starvation" is the album's most famous song. Although it's incredibly well-composed and written, this is where we see why I don't like the guitar tone. All of the songs, in general, are of a very high standard. I highly recommend this album to every rock connoisseur.

Sing, My Soul: Choral Music of Ned Rorem

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Impeccably Performed, Stunning Sound

Sing, My Soul: Choral Music of Ned Rorem

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

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Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000FDBJ
Release Date: 1998-11-24

Tracks:

'Thee, God..'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'While All Things Were In Quiet Silence'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'Before The Morning Star Begotten'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'Lay Up For Yourselves'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'Praise Him Who Was Crucified'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'God Is Gone Up'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'Today The Holy Spirit Appeared'
Seven Motets For The Church Year: 'Rejoice We All In The Lord'
'Phos Hilaron'
'Canticle Of The Lamb'
'Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?'
'Come, Pure Hearts, In Sweetest Measure'
'Mercy And Truth Are Met'
Love Alone: 'Here'
Little Prayers: Three Prayers: 'Creator Spirit, Who Dost Lightly Hover'
Little Prayers: Three Prayers: 'Father, Guide And Lead Me'
Little Prayers: Three Prayers: 'Creator Spirit, Please...'
What Is Pink?: 'What Is Pink?'
What Is Pink?: 'The Mysterious Cat'
What Is Pink?: 'Who Has Seen The Wind?'
What Is Pink?: 'A Pavane For The Nursery'
What Is Pink?: 'Counting-Out Rhyme'
What Is Pink?: 'The House On The Hill'
'All Glorious God'
'Breathe On Me, Breath Of God'
'Lead, Kindly Light'
'Love Divine, All Loves Excelling'
'Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love'
'Surge, Illuminare'

Customer Reviews:

Impeccably Performed, Stunning Sound.......1998-11-20

The beautifully captured reverberant sound of the acoustic space is matched by gorgeous choral balance, precise diction, and definitive interpretation. In spite of the contemporary style of the compositions - Rorem doesn't shy away from crunchy dissonances - this is a very enjoyable collection of Choral music with many beautfiul moments.

Phos: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Greek Album

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Phos: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Greek Album

Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002I8UFM
Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

Train Leaves at Eight - Pyx Lax
My Love (Phaedra) - Alkistis Protopsalti
Beautiful City [Live] - George Dalaras, The Metropole Orchestra
Who Pursues My Life - Haris Katsimihas, Panos Katsimihas
Someday They'll Come - Yiannis Kotsiras
Old Streets
If You Remember My Dream - Yannis Ploutarhos
Kites
Magical Night [Live] - Yannis Parios
Make Your Bed for Two - Haris Alexiou
Of Foreign Lands - Dimitris Mitropanos
I Was Lost
Golden-Green Leaf
Drapetsona - Antonis Remos
Complaint - Pashalis Terzis
You Were Complaint
On the Hidden Shore (Denial)
Solitary Swallow/O Sun of Justice [Live] - Mikis Theodorakis

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Sounding Joy

Manufacturer: Arsis Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0000015E9
Release Date: 2006-10-24

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Von Bingen: Hortus Deliciarum

Manufacturer: Opus 111
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0000B0WVY
Release Date: 2003-11-18

Album Description

A distant precursor of Diderot and the creators of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Herrad of Landsberg, abbess of the monastery of Mont Sainte-Odile at Hohenburg on the banks of the Rhine, compiled between 1159 and 1175 an encyclopaedia covering every aspect of human knowledge: the Hortus deliciarum or `garden of delights'. Amid sacred history, mythology, geography and much else, she gave prominence to music, thus making this superbly illuminated volume an essential source for the new tendencies that were beginning to emerge in the sacred chant of her time, the fertile twelfth century which witnessed the birth of both polyphony and liturgical drama, and which was also rich in forceful feminine personalities like Herrad hrself - women such as Heloise and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Or such as that other celebrated abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, the author of indescribably beautiful poems and melodies which still speak to us across the centuries. This richly varied programme built around these two exceptional women, Hildegard and Herrad, alongside excerpts from their own manuscripts, also offers a selection of repertories that they very probably knew, to form a new `garden of delights', tended by an Ensemble Discantus in more inspired form than ever with their skilful blend of female vocal timbres.

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Phos Hilaron
Paul Avgerinos
Manufacturer: Round Sky Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0008D5HUW
Release Date: 2005-03-27

Tracks:

Humbly I adore Thee
O Sons and Daughters
Call to Prayer
Phos Hilaron
Anoint and Cheer
Song of Gladness
Kyrie
Oneness
The Mystery Telling
O Heavenly Word

Product Description

Phos Hilaron is a deeply devotional Ambient Soundscape with hymns nearly 2000 years old ; we chant blissful peace in this perfect moment . Produced by the Grammy Nominated artist Paul Avgerinos.

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Mind Altering

Hortus Deliciarum

Manufacturer: Opus 111
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000AE0U
Release Date: 1998-08-11

Tracks:

Hortus Deliciarum: Enixa est puerperal
Hortus Deliciarum: Sol oritur occasus nescius
Hortus Deliciarum: O rubor sanguinis
Hortus Deliciarum: Favus distillans Ursula vigor
Hortus Deliciarum: Hec est mater
Hortus Deliciarum: Leto leta concio
Hortus Deliciarum: Congaudeat turba fidelium
Hortus Deliciarum: Kyrie- Magna Deus
Hortus Deliciarum: Dilexisti iustitiam
Hortus Deliciarum: Veri floris sub figura
Hortus Deliciarum: Primus parens hominum
Hortus Deliciarum: Offerentur regi virgins
Hortus Deliciarum: Sanctus- Phos, parties karitatis
Hortus Deliciarum: Agnus Dei -Ave Maria
Hortus Deliciarum: Iube Domine, Navigantes inde sursum, Beata virgo, Sanctis Rome vistatis
Hortus Deliciarum: Cum vox sanguinis
Hortus Deliciarum: Procedentem sponsum de thalamo
Hortus Deliciarum: Dipente et diatesseron
Hortus Deliciarum: Stephani primi martiris
Hortus Deliciarum: Alleluia- In Maria benignitas, Alleulia- O virga mediatrix
Hortus Deliciarum: Ite iam sine tristica

Customer Reviews:

Mind Altering.......2007-02-13

If you are into Gregorian chanting, you will love this disc. It is uniformly spectacular and nothing but pure pleasure. I'm not sure how it could be any better. Hard to find and highly recommended.