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1.	Back To One 03:07	lyrics	buy track

2.	Proof Of Desire 04:13	lyrics	buy track

3.	Last Thrill 03:48	lyrics	buy track

4.	The Light 04:46	lyrics	buy track

5.	Phoenicia 03:06	lyrics	buy track

6.	Restless Man 03:30	lyrics	buy track

7.	What You've Become 02:43	lyrics	buy track

8.	The Go Betweens 05:02	lyrics	buy track

9.	L' Ombre 03:13	lyrics	buy track

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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.

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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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The Light

Jan 2018
A Long Walk

Apr 2013
Verba Time

Jun 2010

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Track Name: Back To One: 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
Track Name: Proof Of Desire: 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
Track Name: Last Thrill: 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
Track Name: The Light: 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
Track Name: Phoenicia: 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
Track Name: Restless Man: 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
Track Name: What You've Become: 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?
Track Name: The Go Betweens: 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
Track Name: L' Ombre: Pour tous ceux qui ferment la porte car ils ont peur et ne peuvent pas dormir.

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