Passage, July - August 2010, Natassa Bofiliou, Gerasimos Evaggelatos, Themis Karamouratidis.

 
“I wake up early in the morning so that the day can trust me and reveal itself in its wholeness. I sleep late at night so that the day can have enough time to forget me and to ask even for the slightest review or return for everything it revealed to me or owes me. In the meantime I see, I hear, I eavesdrop, I feel. I am fortunate enough to be able to write: I communicate with the differentiated time of Art (term that has nothing to do with value and is relevant to method). I can pose the most impossible questions and look for equally absurd answers. I can wonder during the day in any way I choose. Its 24 hours are a journey for me. I do not reach any destination. I am no one. I offer words to unknown people just in case they give me some explanations.”

Gerasimos Evaggelatos

What can be better for the Summer Passage of Radio Art than of three young people that during the last years have distinguished themselves in the Greek music scene for the extraordinary quality of their work and their modest presence?

Natassa Bofiliou, the composer Themis Karamouratidis and the song writer Gerasimos Evaggelatos. These three young artists and friends with each other have a common music presence that gives birth to great expectations regarding their contribution to the modern Green music scene.

Natassa Bofiliou, with law studies at the Law School of Athens and music studies at the Greek Conservatory, has started her carrier in singing by performing next to Chronis Aidonidis. She is an extraordinary singer with main characteristic the sensibility of her voice and having the ability to alternate roles through the stories of the songs, she penetrates through them and performs them with great theatricality.

Themis Karamouratidis, apart from his studies in Panteion University, has also studied piano and harmonics and has created up until today a lot of extraordinary music compositions.

Gerasimos Evaggelatos, has studied theatre at the University of Athens and is growing to be a great song writer-poet, having written almost all the lyrics to all songs that he with Themis and Natassa have worked on. He writes in a lyric way with sensitivity and honesty.

“The children that I meet, feel melancholic;
they see the future as a love that has arrived late
in the nights they make dreams when they drink
but none of them dares to live them.”

Until today the three of them have released the CD-single “En leyko” in 2007, “Until the end” in 2008, the mini-album “Three Secrets” in 2009 and the “Double Tickets”, which is their latest work, in 2010.

Below we have sited 3 questions-answers from the interview that they gave to the reporter-director of www.e-orfeas.gr Mr. Tasos Karantis, who kindly allowed us to republish them.

“Inouremptylife… Inthisdesertedcornerthatwewereborn.” We all know that, say it and continue to bear children. Will you have family and children?

Ν. Μ.: I guess that this need is born by the person you feel that with him you would like to make a family and to share everything. If there is no person like that, you cannot have the need to make such an important step in your life and in this age, although strictly between us, we are not so young anymore. Besides that, my answer is that I have not thought about it yet.

G. Ε.: Family is the people you choose to have by you. From this point of view I would like to have near me for as long as I can the people I choose and who can explain to me a bit better many of the whys of this world.

Th. Κ.: To bear children in order to satisfy my narcissism and my personal ambition, no. I would bear children and make a family only if I was sure that I would be able to make a family like the one that my parents made. And since in the difficult times that we live in, that are filled with ego and arrogance, it is difficult for someone to strain to make a family, I would like to keep it inside me as a high ideal.

“And they come out to be less or too much…I am afraid that I lose counting”. A friend of mine used to tell me that the most difficult and most complicated thing in the world is human relationships. Is that so and we lose counting?

Ν. Μ.: It is the most important and the most difficult thing. It is a fact that all the important things in life require fighting for and straining for. You lose counting because sometimes you estimate things in one way and they come out in another way, you lose yourself in associations with no meaning and wear out in time. But if you achieve to create a substantial human relationship in all levels, the reward is that the relationship compensates you in every level.

G. Ε.: This is the way it should be. The fact that we do not lose faith and we keep on welcoming people in our lives should mean something. Relationships are hard, even though inevitable. We are looking for the ideal. In this process we have the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people. Let us see that as something optimistic. Even though the review could up in a minus. 

Th. Κ.: Just like family, human relationships require a lot of strain and nobody is willing to strain for anything. Today the idea that prevails is that if a characteristic of your personality does not suit me, why should I strain getting to know the rest characteristics of your personality and work on that? I pack my things and leave and at the end I feel as though I am losing counting, but in reality I just got bored to get to know better the people that passed through my life.

“Every now and then that the moon fills in/I bring out the wolf before someone realizes he is there/ in order to take revenge from their night…”. Do we have to bring out the wolf in order for us to survive?

Ν. Μ.: When it is needed, yes. We all have a wolf inside us, who we should remember now and then…

G. Ε.: Thewolfisapartofus. Thedanksideofourselves. I bring him out, does not mean that I cast him out. It means that sometimes I leave him free to express himself, to breathe, to claim what belongs to him. The “Wolf” is a song for freedom. For the right to sorrow, to anger and to be different.

Th. Κ.: In order for all of us to survive, we have to hide him very well. The more we hide this wolf and we bring out another animal from inside of us, which is less aggressive, the higher is our chance to be able to cope with all the other wolves that go around undisturbed and wild.


Songs from all their albums will be broadcasted by the Greek Program of our Station every Tuesday and Thursday between 5 and 6 in the afternoon.

Have a nice summer
Lambros Mitropoulos