Δευτέρα 30 Ιανουαρίου 2012

Νέο τραγούδι για την Αλέξια......


Η Αλέξια στην Ηχογραφήση ενός τραγουδιού για μια ταινία.........

Παραθέτοντας τα λόγια της:
"Recording at a friend's studio for a song for a film!! Thank you my dear Eleni Kafetzi for your invaluable help in writing the French lyrics and tutoring me in singin them properly.. Thank you for all the time you have offered. You are appreciated and loved."

...looking forward to listening it to.......

Παρασκευή 13 Ιανουαρίου 2012

Ένα οδοιπορικό με την Αλεξια......



This is a documentation of parts of my every day life, of the MAGIC that I have been witnessing, encountering and experiencing through the wonderful people and places I keep meeting and it is an idea which i have been working on for over 10 years now.
Now is the time for it to be out in the open and to be shared by all of you!
This is a small unofficial pilot which has been edited by my dear friend and close associate, Director Constantinos Isaias. Isaias has organized the structure of this pilot and has edited the material, my filming skills of which are not the most perfect. Only because I was trying to LIVE IN THE MOMENT and to MAKE THE MOMENT LIVE!
"Ever since i was a little girl, i would daydream a lot and late at night, when everyone was asleep, i would open the window and i would gaze out into the night and imagine other worlds, other realities, worlds unknown to the rest of the people and revealed only to me through my very own vivid imagination..!!
I have always trusted existence and she led me to the most unusual and exciting of places, to the most unusual and Inspiring humans and their majestic, rich, secret worlds with their multitudes of gifts and charisma!
There were days when i felt i had no other choice but to let my feet take me wherever i needed to go to and they always did.
So i followed my deepest desires from Athens where i had lived and performed for over 20 years, to magical and blessed Los Angeles and i began to discover its many many angels!
I love lands and people everywhere and i care to see and hear what they have to say, what they love, how they feel, who they are, for it is by the discovery of them that i am able to discover me!"
Alexia

Δευτέρα 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2011

Τετάρτη 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2011

Must Save The Day-Videoclip

Η Αλέξια αυτά τα Χριστούγεννα μας επιφυλάσσει μια έκπληξη:

Το νέο Μουσικό Βίντεο του Must Save The Day είναι έτοιμο και θα βγει τα Χριστούγεννα

Παρακάτω το sneak preview

Σάββατο 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2011

Alexia's New Digital Album "Backyards"

Alexia's new album has just released and it's called Backyards

The inspiration of the album:

It was a cold, windy February night, in 2007. I had just flown from Athens to Thessaloniki, capital of Northern Greece. I walked into my bedroom when i heard a haunting, interesting, enchanting sound emanating from the marble fireplace. I stopped and listened. It felt like this sound was beckoning. The strong wind: singing.. Without a second thought, i prepared my recording apparatus, i placed my SM58 microphone inside the heart of the fireplace and began to record the wind singing. i could literally hear phrases, musical notes and though I wanted to sing with the wind, it sounded so perfect, that i just had to respect this synchronous moment, so i silently recorded. I could not believe this perfect serendipitous moment, so all i did was to exist and to enjoy with all of my senses in tune. Then at some moment i felt i could sing with the wind.. 
. Most of my life, i would pass by people's houses right at dusk, just when the lights would begin to go on, one by one and i would imagine families eating together round tables, filled with homemade foods: breads and wine, cakes and all kinds of delicious goodies, mostly prepared with love either by a mother or by a grandmother. I'd imagine all the family eating together, singing and talking, listening to each other, really listening to each other, some would eat and draw, others would tell of how their day went, others would laugh in a joyous joyous state and share a joke with the rest.. there' d be flowers in a vase in the middle of the table for all to enjoy. . the tv or the radio would keep patient company to all. Non demanding, just there in the corner, changing colors by themselves and light light light on one side of the room. Like a guard that never goes to sleep. 
I always observed people's back yards. Their lives and thoughts seemed to be transparent to me after i' ve seen their backyard. I could tell a lot about them just by looking at their back yards. I still do.. Come to think of it, it could mean in a metaphorical, or in a symbolical sort of way: another form of a subconscious mind. As Osho says: "the people's back yards are their real lives and so, i turned to none other than my trusting collaborator and friend of many years and of many albums, Vassilis Stergiou, who always shares my vision and so, Backyards was created.! 
In the last track, Saint Demetrius, we recorded the back yards of 4 buildings, right behind the Stergiou's own back yard - balcony. i was always fascinated by the view from Vassilis' and Ersi's balcony: it was the perfect setting for a film with an ever changing plot and soundtrack.. I used to love to wait for that time of the afternoon, round about dusk, when all of the lights or sometimes some of them, would begin to appear one by one by one. Venetian blinds, just the ones we had in all the homes of my birthplace Cyprus, before the war. The wooden ones with the 4 parts of horizontal and vertical thin pieces of wood held together dexterously by a tiny piece of metal.. They were really like a film setting, allowing only sections of realities to be seen, mysterious rays would escape as if captives of a one force: people's realities in rooms and kitchens and bedrooms and parentheses, couches and chairs, pots and pans and little tables with cups and plates with crumbs or full, with magazines, clothes hanging from those garlands of optimism or of not, heralds of secrets told-untold - telling, non-telling. And all i would do would be to send to the people of those houses - homes: my best, my gentlest wishes / thoughts, be inspired and then go to my own Venetian blinds and Be. 
The artwork of Backyards was Inspired and created by Ersi Papadopoulou, Vassilis' wife, a wonderfully talented artist. I dedicate this body of work, to their son Nicolas Vangelis who i have known even before his birth and who i adore! 
Here's to not keeping secrets from ourselves and here's to Venetian truths and Creative - Inspiring backyards!



Available for digital download only @ 
iTunes: itunes.apple.com 
CDBady:http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alexiavassiliou
Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0060MNRMK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=googlcom05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creativeASIN=B0060MNRMK

Παρασκευή 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2011