Stamatis Spanoudakis - To dakri tou Ioanni

Stamatis Spanoudakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1948. Very early on he began to turned to music and began studying Classical music (guitar and theory) with Charalambos Ekmetsoglou. After first hearing the Beatles, he gave up his classical studies and started playing guitar and bass guitar in a number of bands, through the sixties and the seventies. He lived in Athens, Paris and later London where he recorded his first albums. He returned to classical music and his studies at the Würzburg State Conservatory, Germany where he studied composition with Professor Bertold Hummel and in Athens with Professor Constantinos Kydoniatis. From classical music he made the leap to Byzantine music, which gradually led him to Greek song. Since then he is consciously trying to reconcle his three musical influences (Rock, classical and Byzantine), in his music.
Stamatis Spanoudakis wrote numerous hit songs (words and music) for most major Greek singers. He also wrote the music for many succesfull films in Greece, Germany and Italy, for the theater and television and has recorded so far more than fifty albums.

Track list :
01 En niso ti kaloumeni Patmo
02 Mprosta ston throno
03 Miriades miriadon….
04 To xeri tou aggelou
05 To klidi tis avissou
06 O logos tis ipomonis
07 Kithares
08 I perivevlimeni ton ilion
09 Ne amin ke ne
10 To dakri tou Ioanni
11 Ourania poli
12 S'ena kommati gi sti Mesogio