Complaints regarding musical “mistakes”, pre-decided selection and… rigged “Dice”, makes from Patra once morest ERT and Marina Satti, the native group “Zante Dilemma”, which filed one of the 200 total songs for our country’s candidacy at this year’s Eurovision!
The composer-lyricist of the song and main performer of the band, Costas Efepoulosspeaks exclusively in the “Peloponnisos” newspaper and leaves questions regarding the song selection process.
It should be noted that the «Zante Dilemma» have to their credit major record hitsbut also international collaborations with Onyx, Samantha Fox, Kate Bush etc. They submitted their song “Rainmaker” as a candidate for Eurovisionwhich they recorded with sensational interpretation of Nadias Angeletouknown from her distinction in the television competition «The Voice».
This is a strong ethnic songwith electronic dynamic sound, but also natural traditional instruments, such as flute, flute and zourna. He’s got stormy rhythm and emphatic melodywhile it is worth noting that it is clothed in poetic-inventive verses, which speak of a “rainmaker”: “The song was written in memory of all the souls who lost their lives unjustly, in last year’s floods in Thessaly“, Kostas Efepoulos says excitedly to “P” and continues:
«We filed a song, I believe worthy, as I imagine many of the other nominated songs would be equally worthy. But it seems that Marina Satti had already decided to go to Eurovision with her own production team!
I have a feeling that we played in a game, with “Dice” fixedsimply to justify all of us with our participations, the sham selection process of ERT”.
Kostas Efepoulos, with the famous singer Samantha Fox, from their joint concert
As for the song that will eventually represent us, Kostas Efepoulos does not mince his words:
«”Zari” does not have a Greek rhythm, it refers more to an Indian melody. It starts with an intro reminiscent of Xarhakos and something from Sirtaki, to end up in a musical concoction, with some English-speaking pop, some Albanian trap, a couplet in rumba and a strong dose of Greek-speaking kitsch!
As for her its visualizationthere one is captured widespread irony and contempt towards Greek Culturewith decadent images, which ossify the touristic image of the country and its cultural heritage.
THE Marina Satti is a very talented artist, no one doubts that. But she her proposal insults the Greek people and the Greek Culture as sound and image. It is sad that ERT promotes, with the money of the Greek taxpayers, such an ahistorical and “out of tune” version of modern Greece…”.
It should be noted that “Rainmaker” by “Zante Dilemma” has been posted on the band’s You Tube channel since yesterday, where anyone can listen to it, completing the title of the song and the band.
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