Category: Zone BBS Icon 2006
Will nikos be the next Zone BBS Icon?
I'm not sure. I haven't ever heard him sing. Can't wait to hear, though!
Ok.
Because people on this site never heard me sing they wouldn't be able to say if i am good or not.
so here is the link to download a file with me singing.
I just hope you have windows left after listening hahahahahahaha.
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=3841D49F609CD9ED&key=f96ba87b91d23b573749901500d5c3bd52de50f7
And by the way this is not the song i submited for icon. It's another one just to get an idea of how i sing.
Greetings Nikos,
Hi Connie.
Yes the song is in Greek.
So after listening are your windows still there? lol.
Anyway you said comments about the music but it would be good if you could give some feedback about the voice.
This is what they are going to jadge on the second.
Nikos,
Yes my windows are still here and better I do believe for the wear. smile
The Voice, you question... So much I like this, "O trellos," the music, the singing, I have the song playing over and again... stunning, and in the meanwhile researching Greek/O trellos web places...
And even now the music is playing.... *as the searching continues. **I am not much a music/voice critic. All I know is that, "I like it.. Very nice and pleasant."
Good luck Nikos!
Thanks for the good luck. Good luck to you too.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU SO FAR SOUNDS GOOD. CHEERS AND SILES
Thanks a lot. Good luck to you as well.
Sorry, I tried the link and got file not found.
Maybe you broke the whole internet <lol>.
I guess I'll have to wait until the second. Oh well.
Bob
Hi Bob.
I used the yousendit website to upload the file and the file was available for a week and for only 100 downloads.
The week is not over yet so i asume that i run out of downloads.
I uploaded the file again.
The new link is:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=5728FEE07A550C7F&key=2b84da6c4edcc9ed04ee118620224f5387c95722
Nikos
...BlBobby,
Thanks Connie for your kind thinks you said.
When you click on the link you have got the option for opening or saving the song. If you choose save you can save it on your computer so you don't have to click on the link every time.
Greetings Nikos,
THANK YOU for giving to me this information...
...and it works!!!
NOW I have your song on SAVE.
Talk laters and peace Be.
Connie ~ Grace
I've heard the song from the link, and the one Nikos is submitting for the zone icon, and they're both really good, good vocals, good dynamic control, good vibrato, and a good vocal range. So yeah, really cool! I'm sure you'll win it.
Hey wow!!!!
You're real
ly goooood!
i wish you the best of luck, and i really look forward to hearing your other entry.
Thanks a lot. I am glad you like it.
I wish you best of luck as well.
Nikos.
I really like this song, the only thing I wish is to know what it means, lol. But your voice fits really well with the music. Good job, and good luck on the 2nd.
Jessica
Hi Jessica.
I wilsh you luck for the second as well and i am glad you liked the song.
I am not very good translating Greek songs so i will have to ask my friends who speak better English to help me.
Thanks again
Nikos, you have a really good voice, and without the translation I can tell it's a beautiful song.
What does the title mean?
Bob
Below you can read some information about the song. What is about, what rythm it is etc.
Thanks to one of my friends for helping me with it.
The song is talking about a man who became sick of the world because he lacked many things in his life. He wanted and needed more than he could obtain. And so from his hard way of life he ended in misery and madness and noone can tell what is in a mad man's mind. The song repeats the phrase "As ton trelo stin trela tou", which in english can be explained like this: Leave the mad man in his madness. The song was written by the famous greek composer Akis Panou and it was sang by the famous greek singer Stratos Dionysiou in the 60s. The rhythm of the song is Zeibekkiko, a well-known greek dance. Closing, the song was written in a traditional way of greek poetry, known as the fifteen syllable verse.
Also i forgot to say that that the solo at the begining is played by the two popular Greek instruments bouzouki and baglamas.
Information about the bouzouki can be found on the boards at the jam session.
Good luck, Nikos!
Thanks a lot Liz. Good luck to everyone.
Hi again.
Because the links above are about to expire if they didn't already here is a new one and it is going to be the last one since it's only a week untill the second.
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=B178CB9F40E99DDE&key=c985b344aace8afc6705fd4776f752257fbc1f69
And again good luck to all.
Hi.
I was going through the quicknote history and i found some interesting oppinions about my entry last Thursday.
Thanks for the people who said they liked it and also the people who made comments about my backing track are right as well. I can't stop laughing after i read a comment saying that my backing track sounds like a computer or nintendo game or something like that. Lol. That was so funny. I never thought of it this way.
When i submited my entry i didn't care much about backing tracks or any other technical issues because i thought that the voice was the important part in this competition. But after i heard the other songs i regret not having a good backing track.
Next time is going to be acapella so i don't have to worry about backing tracks. I hope you like my song.
And don't forget to write feedback here or to send me private quicknotes because i have pubblicks off. Today it was just luck that i found these quicknotes. Feedback is the only way somebody can improove. It is important to tell me things that you didn't like so i can keep them in mind next time.
Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone in the top 10.
Nikos
Good job. and the things I didn't like was your competition <grin> they were good too.
Bob
GEIA SOY KYPROS POY EKPROSOPIS TO ELLINIKO TRAGOYDI! MOLIS TORA TO EIDA AYTO TO POSTING! DEN IKSERA OTI PIRES MEROS STO IKON... KAI? NIKISES? DEN EXO IDEA... AN NAI BRAVO SOY NIKO!!! FILIA, STAR
It is very good to see a post in my language here.
Basically star was saying good luck and she was asking if i am still in the competition. So please allow me to write some Greek words back.
Geia sou.
Efharisto poly gia ta kala sou logia.
Vasika tora einai i defteri vdomada tou zone icon. Tin perasmeni vdomada apo tous 26 vgikan oi 10 kai eimai kai ego mesa se aftous.
Simera metadothike i defteri ekpompi pou emeis oi 10 tragoudisame horis mousiki kai i psifoforia einai anoikti gia 24 ores. Tin Pempti tha vgoun 2 kai tha minoun 6 ohi 8 dioti afti tin vdomada 2 atoma apohorisan. Kai afto tha ginetai kathe vdomada mehri na minei enas. Tin triti tha metadidontai ta tragoudia kai tin Pempti ta apotelesmata.
Kai ta dyo tragoudia itan sta Ellinika pou tragoudisa. To simerino itan stin Kypriaki dialekto. Oi ekpompes metadidontai kathe 4 ores gia 24 ores meta tin metadosi. I proti ekpompi itan 1 GMT are tha ksanametadothei i ora 5, 9 kai loipa.
Gia perisoteres plirofories pigaine sto zone icon link stin kentriki selida.
Nikos
You have a very good voice so I am sure you will do very well. It will be a great honour to have a greek speaking member win the IKON! OPA MAS! Star
Hi again.
Just to let you know about my song tomorrow so you will know what to expect and where it is coming from.
The song is an old Greek song but very well known arround the world because it was the soundtrack for the movie Pulp Fiction. The song is called Misirlou. I am sure people who like rock and guitar will know the song from the movie and how fast it is to play on the guitar.
Below you can read from Wikipedia more about the song and how it ended up to be one of the most well known Greek songs.
"Misirlou" (Greek: Ìéóéñëïý, 'Egyptian Girl'; Hellenized form of Turkish "Mısırlı" - 'Egyptian', from Arabic مصر, Miṣr, "Egypt"), is a popular Greek song with a cult-like popularity in four very diverse styles of music: Greek rebetiko, Middle-Eastern belly dancing, Jewish wedding music (Klezmer), and American surf rock.
The song was first performed by the Michalis Patrinos rebetiko band in Athens, Greece in 1927. As with almost all early rebetika songs (a style that originated with the Greek refugees from Asia Minor), the song's actual composer was never identified, and its ownership rested with the band leader. The melody was most likely composed collaboratively by the group, as was often the case at the time; the initial lyrics were almost certainly by Patrinos himself. In Patrinos' heavy Smyrniot accent, the song's title was pronounced "Musurlu".
Initially, the song was composed as a Greek zeibekiko dance, at a slower tempo and a different key than the orientalized performances that most are familiar with today. This was the style of first known recording by Michalis Patrinos in Greece, circa 1930; a second recording was made by Patrinos in New York, in 1931.
In 1941, Nick Roubanis, a Greek-American music instructor released a jazz instrumental arrangement of the song, crediting himself as the composer. Since his claim was never challenged, he is still officially credited as the composer today. S. Russell, N. Wise and M. Leeds later wrote English lyrics to the song. Roubanis is also credited with fine tuning the key and the melody, giving it the oriental sound that the song is associated with today.
The song was rearranged as a solo guitar piece by Dick Dale in the 1960s, after a fan asked if Dale could play a song entirely on one string. It was Dale's version of the piece that introduced "Misirlou" to a wider audience in the United States. Dale was of partially Lebanese background, and often credited Armenian music as the inspiration for his guitar style, and perhaps for this reason the tune has at times been mistakenly described as a Lebanese or Armenian folk song. The song's oriental melody has been so popular for so long that many people, from Morocco to Iran, will sometimes claim it to be a folk song from their own country.
The Beach Boys recorded a Dale-inspired Misirlou for the 1963 album "Surfin' USA", forever making Misirlou a staple of American pop culture. Hundreds of recordings have been made to date, by performers as diverse as Agent Orange and Connie Francis.
In 1994, Dale's version of Misirlou was heard on the soundtrack of the motion picture Pulp Fiction. More recently, the song was selected by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee as one of the most influential Greek songs of all time, and was heard on venues and the closing ceremony. In March 2005, Q magazine placed Dale's version at number 89 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. In 2006, his version once again found popularity, this time as the basis of the Black Eyed Peas' single "Pump It."
Also in November of 2006, Dick Dale's rendition was featured in Guitar Hero II, the followup title to RedOctane and Harmonix's tremendously popular Playstation 2 game, Guitar Hero. It is the third track of the most difficult standard category of songs, "Face-Melters". Before appearing on Guitar Hero II however, it was featured in Konami's Guitar Freaks and Drummania games.
Lyrics
Greek Translation
Ìéóéñëïý ìïõ, ç ãëõêéÜ óïõ ç ìáôéÜ
Öëüãá ìïõ '÷åé áíÜøåé ìåò óôçí êáñäéÜ
Á÷, ãéá ÷áìðßìðé, á÷, ãéá ÷áëÝëé, á÷
Ôá äõï óïõ ÷åßëç óôÜæïõíå ìÝëé, á÷
Á÷, Ìéóéñëïý, ìáãéêÞ, îùôéêÞ ïìïñöéÜ
ÔñÝëá èá ìïõ 'ñèåé, äåí õðïöÝñù ðéá
Á÷, èá óå êëÝøù ìÝóá áðü ôçí ÁñáðéÜ
ÌáõñïìÜôá Ìéóéñëïý ìïõ ôñåëÞ
Ç æùÞ ìïõ áëëÜæåé ì' Ýíá öéëß
Á÷, ãéá ÷áìðßìðé åíá öéëÜêé,Ü÷
Áð' ôï ãëõêü óïõ ôï óôïìáôÜêé, á÷
My Misirlou (Egyptian girl), your sweet glance
It's lit a fire in my heart
Ah, ya habibi, Ah, ya haleli, ah
(Arabic: Oh, my love, Oh, my night)
Your lips are dripping honey, ah
Ah, Misirlou, magical, exotic beauty
I'll go crazy, I can't take any more
Ah, I'll take you away from the African land
My crazed, dark-eyed Misirlou
My life changes with one kiss
Ah, ya habibi, one little kiss, ah
From your sweet little lips, ah
English Lyrics by Russell, Wise and Leeds:
Desert shadows creep across purple sands
Natives kneel in prayer by their caravans
There, silhouetted under an eastern star
I see my long lost blossom of Shalimar
You, Misirlou, are the moon and the sun, fairest one
Old temple bells are calling across the sand
We'll find our Kismet, answering love's command
You, Misirlou, are a dream of delight in the night
To an oasis, sprinkled by stars above
heaven will guide us, Allah will bless our love
Ah, Ah, Misirlou
Other notable recordings
There is a Ladino version of "Misirlou" by the Turkish-Jewish band Los Pasharos Sefaradis.
A Serbian version of this song titled Vranjanka (The Girl from Vranje) was created by Serbian singer Staniša Stošić. This version is widely sung across the territory of the former Yugoslavia; when Pulp Fiction appeared, to many it was a surprise to find out that the song was indeed Greek.
French-Algerian rock star Rachid Taha recorded an Arabic, drum'n'bass-inspired version, titled "Jungle Fiction".
Woody Herman and his Orchestra recorded a foxtrot version, published by Decca, which can be found as the b-side to "Blue Flame".
The Greek garage rock band The Last Drive record an instrumental version of this song on its first album Underworld Shakedown (1986).
Interestingly, American ethnomusicologist Harry Smith made several recordings of Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, a prominent Jewish orthodox rabbi who lived on New York's Lower East Side as he sang and told stories in Yiddish. On January 1, 2006, NPR presented a story on the efforts of his grandson Lionel Ziprin to preserve these recordings and played some of them in their story. One of the pieces sounds identical to the melody of "Misirlou". (The melody can be heard, beginning at 4:13.) NPR: A Grandson's Quest To Preserve His Jewish Heritage A version with Yiddish lyrics is often performed at weddings, and has been recorded by Klezmer Conservatory Band on their CD Dancing in the Aisles. The style is a hybrid of Ashkenazic Klezmer and Mizrahi (Jewish songs set to Arab melodies).
California Guitar Trio (with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto as special guests) covered Dale's version of the song on their album Rocks the West (2000).
The song is featured in the games Drummania, Guitar Freaks, and Guitar Hero 2.
The song is featured in the trailers for the video game Rayman Raving Rabbids.
This information is very cool. Wow I didn't know all the background of the song. I know the song and I love the movie pulp fiction. OPA MAS, Star
Nykos, i just wanted to say great job tonight and i loved it.
you really have been great and have made icon so diverse...you're all wonderful.
Thanks Galileo for your positive comments.
I am glad you liked my performance yesterday.
I enjoy listening to your performance every week and i wish you best of luck in this competition.
good luck, Nikos.
Thanks Jessica. Good luck to you too.
Greetings Nikos,
Once again I missed the musical try-out for Icon..
Logg ed on just as some of the voting was about to take place.
Given I did not listen in,
I had no right to vote.
Wish you well ~
Also Good Holiday Cheer! To You.
Connie ~ Grace
Hi all.
As you probaply know i am not any longer in zone icon.
This icon was a very good experience for me. I learned a lot.
Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Also i would like to thank the jadges for their usefull feedback about my singing and the audio teem. It was a pleasure working with everyone.
Good luck to the people remaining and i look forward to hear the shows coming.
Nikos
All the ve'r'r'ry BEST to you Nikos~
The Furure and new days are just over the
other side of the Horizon..
Continue on.. I hear you made it to the Top Five!!
Alrighty,
Connie ~ Grace
You did a good job on your performances.
Sorry you were voted off.
Nikos, you did great, and stood up against some strong competition.
We're still your fan club.
Bob
Nikos excellent job. It was hard out there and you gave it your best, keep on singing though. You are excellent.
Thanks everyone. I am glad you liked my singing. And also thanks for your encoraging words. It was a lot of funn being in zone icon.