The Day After The Sabbath 32: Power of Zeus [Greece pt.1]

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 The Day After The Sabbath 32 "Power of Zeus" is a collection from Greek artists.

01. Aphrodite's Child - The Battle of the Locusts / Do It (1972)

                from album 666
02. Vavoura Band - Κατάρα (The Curse) (1979)

                from album Live - The Early Years
03. Socrates Drank The Conium - Who Is To Blame? (1973)

                from album On The Wings
04. Kastores - O Ksenos Zitianos / Polemos Esti Fonias (1973)

                single
05. Nemesis - Dreamer (1976)

                from album Nemesis
06. The Sun Of Greece - O Arhigos / O Listis Kai O Fonias (1974)
                from album The Sun Of Greece and single
07. Morka - Avenue Winter (1973)

                from album There Was A Time...
08. Socrates - Time Of Pain / Killer (1976)
                from album Phos
09. Axis - Materializing The Unlimited (1973)
                from album Axis
10. Gazuama Sinchartchas - Anipsosi Apotinaksi Ekfigi (1971)

                single
11. The 4 Levels Of Existence - Metamorphic (1976)
                from album The 4 Levels Of Existence
12. Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen (1972)

                from album 666

It starts and ends with a band I really like, Aphropdite's Child, who were started by the later-famous solo electronic artist Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (aka Vangelis), and Artemios Ventouris Roussos who later shot to solo fame as Demis Roussos. By 1977, "Vavoura Band" had success in the top Athens clubs, highlighting at the Kyttaro club supporting Greece’s then top rock band 'Socrates', who also feature on this compilation, in two incarnations; Beginning life as 'Socrates Drank the Conium', and later changing name to just 'Socrates' with their final album, for which they were joined by Vangelis for his third track contribution here. There is little info on many of these bands, Kastores and Gazuama Sinchartchas especially, they produced rare singles and apparently vanished as many of these bands do. "The Sun Of Greece" were formed in Germany by three Greek expatriates and one German in 1972. After the fall of the military junta the band returned to Greece and privately released one of the rarest Greek singles "Mavra Poulia/O Listis Kai o Fonias". The fall of the Greek dictatorship had a strong effect on music, as it did in all aspects of life there. It was much easier for bands after 1974, which is around when Morka and Axis formed. Axis here present an interesting track, a repetative slew of riffs that sounds like King Crimson at their most alienatingly mechanical.

A recent comment I had from Instagram follower thor.s.carlsson on Aphrodite's Child's closing track "The Four Horsemen": 'Richard Ashcroft from The Verve said this was one of the finest songs and guitar solos ever, stating that driving down a stretch of road blasting this song is the way to fully enjoy it and even admitted that he fully stole (as a homage, though) the "ba ba bara ba ba barara" bit and used it in their song 'Rolling People'.

Special thanks to Acidfuzzzzer over at rateyourmusic.com for his invaluable assistance!
Cheers, Rich

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