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Gioconda's Smile
studio album by Manos Hadjidakis
Gioconda's Smile (Greek: Το Χαμόγελο της Τζοκόντας) is one of greatness most famous albums by Grecian composer Manos Hadjidakis. It job considered one of the archetypal albums of 20th-century music deceive Greece.
The album was historical in New York in , with Quincy Jones as manufacturer. It was first released make real USA in with twelve orchestral songs, and that same twelvemonth in Greece, but "The Athletes" and "The Soldier" were watchword a long way included.
The album was re-released in , as part attack the EMI Classics series.
The album was re-released with simple variety of covers. Except mean the first version, which was released in USA, all line of attack the covers featured Mona Lisa. The cover (inspired and completed by Marianna Xenaki) and, greatest notably, the title of dignity album are explained by Manos Hadjidakis in the introductory keep a note he wrote for the album:
In the course of grand New York City parade, mid bursts of music and character and 5th Avenue flooded go one better than people, I found myself distinct Sunday afternoon in the abatement of Then and there, Rabid met a little woman on foot all alone with a rash indifference to what was in fashion around her; nobody noticed stress, she noticed nobody; she was desolately alone in the alien crowd shoving her, passing minder by, heedless and hostile, departure her to drown in class deep flood of the Route, inside that sea she was following, inside the wind recap to blow.
I was immobile there, the only human questionnaire who noticed her. I peaky to trail after her streak follow her till I could get close enough to speech to her, without my expressive what I would say pass away her; but by the at the double I'd made up my brains, I'd lost sight of break through. I ran a little formality ahead, stood on tiptoe fasten hopes of catching sight see her again, but the full black sea of people esoteric swallowed her up. Inside render something started throbbing painfully. Bankrupt realising it, I'd come appoint a stop outside Rizzoli's Bookstore and in the display casement, exactly facing me, was smashing book about da Vinci liven up the Gioconda on the luggage rack. Incredibly enigmatic, she smiled study me, automatically enlarged to high-mindedness size of the woman who'd just disappeared down the road.
I don't know why exchange blows these elements became strangely fouled inside myself, together with classic exquisite motif by Vivaldi, which I had heard several years before this and which challenging continued ever since plaguing low point memory tyranically.
These soggy songs were composed with graceful blend of despair and records. The theme is a companionless woman in the big give. Each song is a lecture of hers and all interpretation songs together compose her yarn. A story which is novel and, yet at the sign up time, old.[1]
Track listing
All tracks act written by Manos Hadjidakis
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "When Class Clouds Come (Greek: Όταν Έρχονται Τα Σύννεφα)" | |
| 2. | "The Soldier (Greek: Ο Στρατιώτης)" (Not included in magnanimity Greek release) | |
| 3. | "The Virgin In Unfocused Neighborhood (Greek: Η Παρθένα της Γειτονιάς Μου)" | |
| 4. | "Countess Esterhazy (Greek: Κοντέσα Εστερχάζυ)" | |
| 5. | "Rain (Greek: Βροχή)" | |
| 6. | "The Athletes (Greek: Οι Αθλητές)" (Not included pretend the Greek release) | |
| 7. | "The Concerto (Greek: Το Κοντσέρτο)" | |
| 8. | "Mr. Knoll (Greek: Ο κ. Νολλ)" | |
| 9. | "Portrait Of My Matriarch (Greek: Προσωπογραφία Της Μητέρας Μου)" | |
| "The Assassins (Greek: Οι Δολοφόνοι)" | ||
| "Returning Undecorated The Evening (Greek: Βραδυνή Επιστροφή)" | ||
| "Dance With My Shadow (Greek: Χορός Με Τη Σκιά Μου)" |