Lena Platonos (Greek: Λένα Πλάτωνος) is a Greek musician, pianist and elect… Read Full Bio ↴Lena Platonos (Greek: Λένα Πλάτωνος) is a Greek musician, pianist and electronic music composer. She was one of the pioneers in the Greek electronic music scene of the 1980s and remains active until the present day.

She has contributed much to the Greek electronic music scene with mid-1980s records such as Μάσκες ηλίου (Sun Masks, 1984), Γκάλοπ (Gallop, 1985) and Λεπιδόπτερα (Lepidoptera, 1986), which were made exclusively of analog electronic musical instruments and narration of the Greek -and often of her personal- reality.

Songs about immigrants, the absolute power of computers in our daily lives and the hermetic guard of our private spaces give us the image of an artist who worked ahead of her time, with an exceptional talent for conceiving issues that were to conquer our TV screens and newspapers many years later.

Platonos was born in October of 1951 in Crete, Greece and grew up in Athens. She began learning the piano at the age of two and became a professional pianist before turning eighteen. Soon afterwards she received a scholarship and studied in Vienna and Berlin where she was exposed to jazz, rock and middle eastern music.

She permanently returned to Greece in the late 1970s and began working in the Third Program of ERT radio where she met Μάνος Χατζιδάκις (Manos Hadjidakis) (at the time its director) with whom she kept a close professional and personal relationship until his death.

Her 1981 debut album Σαμποτάζ (Sabotage) was released to critical acclaim for both its lyrical richness and use of synthesizers, at the time not a very common thing in Greek music.

Since then Platonos has released and collaborated on more than 15 albums of mostly electronic music. Her latest record was released in 2018 and is titled Θανάτω Θάνατον...Πατήσας .

Bloody Shadows from Afar
Λένα Πλάτωνος Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Bloody Shadows from Afar' by these artists:

Lena Platonos Στις εξιστορήσεις της ζωής σου Συχνά ανταποκρίνομαι Με ρίγη …

We have lyrics for these tracks by Λένα Πλάτωνος:

Bloody Shadows from a Distance Στις εξιστορήσεις της ζωής σου Συχνά Ανταποκρίνομαι με ρίγη …

LEGO Τίποτα δε μου έχει φανεί πιο αληθινό, από ετούτη τη στιγμή. …
Μια άσκηση φυσικής άλυτη Τώρα, μαλλιά ξεριζωμένα απάνω από τ' αυτιά τα υπόλοιπα αγκάθ…
Τι νέα ψιψίνα; Σήμερα η τηλεόραση πρόεβλεψε ανέμους ασθενείς, Έκανες αυτοσυ…

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Here's a translation by Filtig, 2014 from another youtube video of this song:

I often respond to the storytelling of your life
with chills down my spine
I cover myself in an orange blanket
I become a blind rabble that ends up
At the edge of the bed of a cliff
Unable of tears or poetry
Seeking another type of seeing

Now we are grown up kids
That need a lot of fingers to count the time past
Deep fingers to drown to touch the very first pain
So they can maintain happiness
Here I go again…

It’s only then, suddenly and fiercely
That survival comes
And puts me in an emergency take-off
In a defense speed, almost light speed
I move away in a blur of infinite iridescence

So I see you, my friend, as a shade of blood
Of a rhythm
- Whether you agree or disagree or find yourself in mutism -
As a playmate on the same chord as us
A famous composer of a big board game
That some people call history
And some call history of lust.