Codarts- YellowHouse Spotlight Sessions 

Music/ arrangements by:
Alicia Cerrada (Piano)
Alkistis Lampropoulou (Singer)
Alexis Bove (Cello)
Anna Choi (Bandoneon)

Pieces:
Nostalgias - Juan Carlos Cobián

Audio Recording: Mark Kieviet
Audio Mix: Hans Neels

Tango Ensemble Nostalgias - Yellow House Spotlight Sessions

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalampous

Performed @Église Réformée Wallonne de la Haye, the Netherlands


"Smile" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times.


Smile
Music by Charles Chaplin, Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through
for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you’ll just
Smile

Smile (Charlie Chaplin)- 'Duospheric'

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalambous

Performed @Église Réformée Wallonne de la Haye, the Netherlands

"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.


The song has been covered by many other artists. Here you can listen our version! Enjoy it!




Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way


Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon river and me

Moon River(Henry Mancini)- 'Duospheric'

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalambous

Performed @Église Réformée Wallonne de la Haye, the Netherlands

story of the song: http://www.shira.net/music/apo-xeno-topo-story.htm

Apo Xeno Topo- Greek folk-'Duospheric'

Recorded at Waalse kerk in The Hague (Église Réformée Wallonne de La Haye)

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalambous

Composition: John Coltrane
Lyrics & Arrangement: Alkistis Lampropoulou

Naima - 'Duospheric'

Vocals & composition: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Piano: Yiorgos Bereris
Double Bass: Ignatio Santoro
Drums: Ektoras Remsak


recorded at Thomas Dippel Studio 
mixing by Chris Zantioti
Mastering by I.M.

artwork by Alexis Bove & Vassilina



EP release "A few words.." @2021

Alkistis Lampropoulou - The Connection

Composition: Hermeto Pascoal
Arrangement: Euripides Dionysiadis

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Piano: Yiorgos Bereris
Double Bass: Ignatio Santoro
Drums: Ektoras Remsak

String Quartet
Violin: Burcu Ramazanoglu
Violin: Manon Van de Kempe
Viola: Stefano Sancassan
Cello: Alexis Bove

recorded at Thomas Dippel Studio
mixing by Chris Zantioti
Mastering by I.M

artwork by Alexis Bove & Vassilina

EP "A few words.." released @2021

Selim-Nem um Talvez/ Hermeto Pascoal- arr. Euripides Dionysiadis

composition by Alegre Corrêa, arrangement by Alkistis Lampropoulou

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Piano: Yiorgos Bereris
Double Bass: Ignatio Santoro
Drums: Ektoras Remsak

recorded at Thomas Dippel Studio 
mixing by Chris Zantioti 
Mastering by I.M 

artwork by Alexis Bove & Vassilina 

EP "A few words.." released @2021

Pequeño Cigano

Recorded at Waalse kerk in The Hague (Église Réformée Wallonne de La Haye)

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalambous

Composition:  Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes

Samba em Prelúdio lyrics & translation

Eu sem você não tenho porquê
Porque sem você não sei nem chorar
Sou chama sem luz, jardim sem luar
Luar sem amor, amor sem se dar
 
Eu sem você sou só desamor
Um barco sem mar, um campo sem flor
Tristeza que vai, tristeza que vem
Sem você, meu amor, eu não sou ninguém
 
Ah, que saudade
Que vontade de ver renascer nossa vida
Volta, querido
Os meus braços precisam dos teus
Teus braços precisam dos meus
 
Estou tão sozinha
Tenho os olhos cansados de olhar para o além
Vem ver a vida
Sem você, meu amor, eu não sou ninguém
Sem você, meu amor, eu não sou ninguém.


Samba em Prelúdio (English translation)

Me without you, there's no reason
Because without you i can't even cry
I'm flame without light, garden without moonlight
Moonlight without love, love that's not given
 
And i'm without you only lovelessness
Boat without sea, field without flower
Sadness that goes, sadness that comes
Without you, my love, I'm nobody
 
Ah, how i miss you
How i wish to see reborn our Life
Come back, darling
My arms need yours
Your arms need mine
 
I'm so lonely
I have eyes tireds of looking nowhere*
Come see life
Without you, my love, i'm nobody
Without you, my love, i'm nobody.

Samba Em Prelúdio - 'Duospheric'

Composition: Chico Buarque/Cristina Buarque

Arrangement/Guitars/Backing vocals: Paulo Bouwman
Percussion: Rafael Durao
Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Vocals: Sophia Nakou

Recording: Paulo Bouwman
Mixing: Dimitris Bellos
Mastering: Danilo Tavares

Sem fantasia (Chico Buarque)- arr. P.Bouwman

Vocals :Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Asterios Papastamatakis
Bass :Yiorgos Limakis
Drums : Giorgos Kosteletos

Lullaby Of Birdland- Jazz Quartet

Alkistis Labropoulou Jazz Hug Quartet 

recorded by Thijs van Bemmel & Ellen Janssens, Mixed by Thijs van Bemmel

picture  by Stamatis Xanthoulis

softly as in the morning, sunrise is a song with music by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II from the 1928 operetta The New Moon. 

Vocals : Alkistis Labropoulou
Guitar : Jack Kinsella
Double Bass : Nikos Kalogiannis
Drums : Marios Spyrou

Softly, As In The Morning Sunrise

Alkistis Labropoulou "Jazz Hug Quintet"

recorded by Thijs van Bemmel & Ellen Janssens, Mixed by Thijs van Bemmel

picture by Stamatis Xanthoulis

"Dat Dere" is a jazz song written by Bobby Timmons and first recorded in 1960. Lyrics were written by Oscar Brown, Jr. for a 1960 recording.

Vocals : Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Raul Santana
Guitar : Jack Kinsella
Double Bass : Nikos Kalogiannis
Drums : Marios Spyrou

"Dat Dere" / Bobby Timmons-Alkistis Labropoulou Quintet

Den haag 2018/The Netherlands
mix & master by Thijs van Bemmel

Vocals:Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Lorenzo Ditta
Double bass : Raphael Royer
Drums : Guillermo Viana Martin
Saxophone : Alba Gil Aceytuno
Trumpet : Jan Toth
Trombone : Leonidas Zoupalis

Light as a Feather is the second studio album by jazz fusion band Return to Forever led by pianist Chick Corea.
The first song, "You're Everything", was written by Corea. He has said that it's among his favorite of the vocal songs he has written.

Arrangement : Victor Oller Segura

Alkistis Labropoulou - You're Everything (Chick Corea)

Original Composition by Alkistis Labropoulou
Den Haag 2018/The Netherlands

mix & master by Thijs van Bemmel

Vocals : Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Lorenzo Ditta
Double bass : Raphael Royer
Drums : Guillermo Viana Martin

Alkistis Labropoulou- The Connection

Den Haag 2018/The Netherlands
mix & master by Thijs van bemmel

Vocals:Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Lorenzo Ditta
Double bass : Raphael Royer
Drums : Guillermo Viana Martin
Saxophone : Alba Gil Aceytuno
Trumpet : Jan Toth
Trombone : Leonidas Zoupalis

"Nardis" is a composition by American jazz musician Miles Davis. It was written in 1958, during Davis's modal period, to be played by Cannonball Adderley for the album Portrait of Cannonball. The piece has come to be associated with pianist Bill Evans, who recorded it repeatedly.

Lyrics by Alkistis Labropoulou
arr: Alkistis Labropoulou

It seems to be the magic life
but what is life?is mystery

I see the fire in your eyes
That evening made us history

I cry
even though I try
sweet madness of the mind

It seems to be the magic love
But what is love? Is mystery

Alkistis Labropoulou-Nardis(Miles Davis)

Den Haag 2018, The Netherlands
mix & master by Thijs van Bemmel

Vocals:Alkistis Labropoulou
Piano : Lorenzo Ditta
Double bass : Raphael Royer
Drums : Guillermo Viana Martin

Playground is a jazz album by Michel Petrucciani, which features his generally acoustic-based approach being transformed by the addition of synthesizers and electric bass guitar in the ensemble, as well as a more funk-rhythm driven approach to the music.

Alkistis Lampropoulou-Miles Davis Licks(Michel Petrucciani)

Vocals: Alkistis Lampropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalampous


"Misirlou", Greek: Μισιρλού,Turkish: Mısırlı ,'Egyptian'  Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr 'Egypt', is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region, with origins in the Ottoman Empire. The original author of the song is not known, but Arabic, Greek and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko/tsifteteli composition influenced by Middle Eastern music.

Misirlou/'Duospheric'

Vocals: Alkistis Labropoulou
Guitar: Nikos Charalampous

"Alfonsina y el mar" is a zamba composed by the Argentine pianist Ariel Ramírez and the writer Félix Luna, published for the first time on the Mercedes Sosa album Mujeres argentinas, from 1969. The song is a tribute to the poet of the same nationality Alfonsina Storni, who committed suicide in 1938 in Mar del Plata, jumping into the water from a jetty, although, according to the song, she slowly entered the sea.

Alfonsina y el mar(Ariel Ramirez)-'Duospheric'

alkistis labropoulou voc / asterios papastamatakis piano

Black coffee

Hello and welcome to Alkistis soundcloud !

Alkistis is a versatile musician who loves to explore different musical genres. Her experimentation and involvement in learning different music genres of the world together with her love for jazz improvisation identified her by using her voice as an instrument with a non-word approach as well as arranging folk music of the world in multiple languages such as Spanish, Portuguese and her native language Greek.  Odd meters, eastern melodies, latin vibes, non-word singing and jazz improvisations is what you can expect from her music.

On her channel you will find a selection of recordings some of which are a bit old. Keeping a musical diary  since her first steps in singing and keep improving with goal to enjoy the great gift of music. Feel free to explore it. 

For more infos  about me visit my website    https://www.alkistislampropoulou.com/

thank you !!
Alkistis Lampropoulou - Jazz & world music vocalist/educator/musicologist

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