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The Light

by Tango With Lions

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1.
Back To One 03:07
Are we back to the real thing? Are we back to one? Get estranged, then get back home Try to leave and make a home out of the escape Trains arrive and I will ride them I’ll find the clues to a better life A new lie, a new fragment Seas are wide but I will trust them I am broken but the sun is mine
2.
Is this the kind of love you’re joining in but weighs on you? Is this the kind of love you’re posing in and then expires you? Leaving a hole where a home should be Leaving a wound where a dream should drip I am a little scared to tell you the truth Seems to me it’s always leading up to a proof of desire I’m heading to a storm with no plan out I’m hanging from a rope like a fruit that inspires
3.
Last Thrill 03:48
Ships are mounting on the riverside, with you Frozen morning never felt this homesick or alive Now what’s left of twinkling lights of hope? Armoured love and reins to keep on Now what’s left of me without you there? Isn’t it a fall for both of us to scare? Cause breaking free ain’t easy Sunset’s crawling Are you still in me my love? It’s our last thrill Will we ever be this close again? Bridges, buildings Hudson’s flowing over us Saw us breaking by a lonely pier way back when Now you know it shouldn’t hurt this much
4.
The Light 04:46
Given the time you had it’s all gone well or terribly wrong Taking the toll is always as all that ends can ever bring Wearing a stare to stare at the wildest flame I’ve known so I can breathe into this or breathe out of us Now you can’t see the light Looks like you’ve waited enough But who’s gonna creep in now through the bedsheets? In the cold, clean moon you held the fantasy and I held the thought, in my defence But you’ll find no tears, love, no rain to come undone the stain And all life is cold and all is old I’m never saying this is harmless again Now you can’t see the light
5.
Phoenicia 03:06
If you can’t recall the weather that brought us together when you said I am your love say it again tomorrow when we are in sorrow for the birds we kept encaged Don’t believe what they say well they never knew us and they’ll never be a part of us Don’t regret the evening we parted forever I will carry us within It’s only loneliness that we can find without until it’s past
6.
Restless Man 03:30
You are a restless man and you won’t sleep tonight cause we sit around and talk about you and me We’ll listen to the same record over and over again and shots will find us dancing to a frenzy rhythm I am a restless girl and you won’t sleep tonight cause we will lie in bed and watch them stars fall You’ll hold my hands and say “let’s dance the way we did as kids” Then I will feel your lips and your breath under my neck We are the restless ones We are the tie-free style We all the live-for-now style We dance our own ways We’ll spend the day together because there’s nothing else to do We met and now we have to prove ourselves we won We are the restless ones We are the tie-free style We are the fake-smile style So we just dance again You are a restless man And I’m a restless girl We dance the way we did as kids Then we do the grown-up style The restless style
7.
Counter-words in the morning light Ventures and acts of crime in a cold-blooded sun Ever-flying just to dwell on whatever will ring the bell of what you’ve seen Mountain rock and the rhythm gets stuck once you set foot on the picture All along it’s been great but a ton of hide-aways I should have gone it would have been my star invention but lazying is just too good Do you hear voices? And do they approve of what you’ve become?
8.
All the treacherous ways you found to show your love around All the meaningless lies you spread to make your heart look dead Between the dreary hours Between midnight and dawn We built up a scenery one hell of a scenery All the laughters that you made me hear to lead me to your sensation, to feed me your fear All the minutes we stared at each other’s eyes showed that words better not be used Hush now Between winter and spring Between the cool and the wildest I cannot recall a better love to go to waste
9.
L' Ombre 03:13
Pour tous ceux qui ferment la porte car ils ont peur et ne peuvent pas dormir.

about

Singer-songwriter Kat (Katerina Papachristou) and her band Tango With Lions are back after five years of absence from discography and while their previous two albums - "Verba Time" (2010), "A Long Walk" (2013) - have expanded their loyal audience beyond Greek borders. Their long awaited new album, "The Light", will be the first release of Inner Ear for 2018.

"The Light" documents a desire to emerge towards the light through nine stories-questionmarks of introspection. Stories of separation, pleasures, deconstruction that motivate either nihilism and sinking into darkness, either excessive optimism or the acceptance that darkness and light can steadily coexist in music. This natural coexistence is the thread that unites the songs of “The Light” musically and lyrically. Nine songs, different in style, reaffirm that the atmosphere in Tango With Lions’ music is created through images that lure the music, with the lyrics being the key link.

The album began to take shape in 2015 and was completed in the summer of 2017. It was recorded at SCA studio with sound engineer and band member Thodoris Zefkilis, with additional recordings from AKRON studio, where it all began with sound engineer Vangelis Fampas. The mastering of the album was made in Pytzamax studio by Yannis Paxevanis.

Out on vinyl, cd and digital album via Inner Ear.

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released January 19, 2018

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All music written by Kat Papachristou and performed by Tango with Lions
All lyrics by Kat Papachristou

Tango with Lions are:
Kat Papachristou - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar on tracks 2 and 8, celtic harp on track 3, piano, keyboards, acoustic bass on tracks 2 and 8
Theodore Zefkilis - electric bass
Nikos Vergetis - drums, percussion
Jim Staridas - trombone
Dennis Morfis - electric guitar on tracks 2, 4 and 7

Guest performances:
Michalis Diakogiorgis - gran cassa on track 1, timpani on tracks 1 and 8, vibraphone on track 5
Nikos Giousef - musical saw on track 8
Nalyssa Green - theremin on track 2, accordion on track 9
Dimitris Aronis - banjo and backing vocals on track 6
George Gaudy - backing vocals on track 8
Yiannis Paxevanis - lap steel guitar on track 6
Children’s choir of Spyros Lambrou - track 4

Electric guitar on track 7 written by Yannos Paramythiotis and Dennis Morfis, performed by Dennis Morfis
Bass line on track 6 written and performed by “The Cousins'' (Antonis Skamnakis -Theodore Zefkilis)

Arranged and produced by Kat Papachristou and Theodore Zefkilis

Recorded and mixed by Theodore Zefkilis at SCA studio, Athens, Greece
Piano tracks, birthday party 2015, acoustic bass on track 2 and vocals on track 1, 2 and 8 recorded by Vangelis Fampas at AKRON studio, Athens, Greece
Mastered by Yiannis Paxevanis at Pytzamax studio, Athens, Greece

Artwork by Bob Studio
Photos by Despoina Spyrou

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Tango With Lions Athens, Greece

Tango with Lions is the project of multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Kat Papachristou.
She has released three albums via InnerEar Records. Verba Time (2010), A Long Walk (2013) and The Light (2018). "Σου 'χω πει ποτέ" (have I ever told you) is a handmade poetry book including a 2-track digital album, created during the CoVid pandemic lockdown.
TwL is currently preparing her 4th studio album.
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