George Romanos – Marina (1968)

Τελευταίο κομμάτι για σήμερα αφού έχω ακόμα λίγο χρόνο, η τραγική Μαρίνα. Δεν ξέρω αγαπητοί φίλοι αν αυτό το κομμάτι έχει πέσει όσο πρέπει στην προσοχή σας από τον Ρωμανό. Ίσως υπερβάλω αλλά το θεωρώ ως το πιο αντιπροσωπευτικό Ελληνικό ψυχεδελικό κομμάτι από τα 60’s και σε επίπεδο μουσικής (ο Παπαθανασίου το γεμίζει πραγματικά εξαιρετικά) αλλά και στίχων. «Μα η Μαρίνα μου, κρεμάστηκε από τάστέρια τ’ουρανού, γιατί ένα βράδυ ξέχασα ένα φιλί»… Δηλαδή τι παραπάνω μας είπαν ρε γαμώτο τόσες χιλιάδες ξένα συγκροτήματα? Προσωπικά το θεωρώ το κορυφαίο ψυχεδελικό τραγούδι όλων των εποχών στο τόπο μας…
Καλό ξημέρωμα σε όλους και καλές μουσικές σήμερα το βράδυ...

George Romanos is a Greek artist who recorded several albums in the sixties and seventies. His music ranges from Greek pop to psychedelic rock. In 1968 George worked with "Vangelis and his Orchestra" on several songs that appeared on his album "In concert and in the studio".
The members of Vangelis' "orchestra" were in fact the same musicians that would later that year form the group "Aphrodite's Child", after the group travelled to France in search of a more international audience....
Curiously, the instrumental versions of the songs “I agapi mas kimate sta nera” and “To Roloi” would in the same year also be released as a 7” single under Vangelis’ name, titles “Our love sleeps on the waters” and “The clock”. The single would be the very first solo single ever to be released by Vangelis !
Discography
LP1968 In concert and in the studio Zodiac 88006 Greece
CD1996 In concert and in the studio Zodiac 88006 Greece
Single1968 To Roloi / Marina Zodiac ZS 8108 Greece1968 I agapi mas kimate sta nera / Ei koritsi ZS 8110 Greece
Both the LP and singles are pretty hard to find, but fortunately the CD can still be found in the better sorted Greek record stores.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Marina
My Marina was born inside a rose

that was burned by lightning

one night.
My love grew up inside a house

made of paper,

torn by the wind

and muddy rain.

My love looked at me

through a piece of green glass

and saw a pale cloud.
We walked together

and we were a shadow

on a far away lake

with dark waters

and dreams.
My love loved me on stones and [a] plant

and cruelly laughed at the twilight.

My love fought and defeated all the enemies

and the world embraced herwith a hidden fire.
But my Marina hanged herself from the stars of the sky

because one evening I forgot a kiss.

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