Your opened heart
Embraces my mind
And your soft skin
Touches my pain
I don’t believe that I’ve found you

Freedom, freedom
Generosity and passion
If you aren’t willing sacrifice
How can you find yourself? 
How can you understand?

Your cold hands
They brought me a home
Your shinning eyes 
Show me the way
Am I dreaming? 
Am I dreaming?

Freedom, freedom
Generosity and passion
If you aren’t willing sacrifice
How can you find yourself? 
How can you understand?


Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Emotional Intelligence

Generosity

I am looking for those eyes
That will love me limitlessly
that will see me
Body and soul, as I am
Anxious, desperate
Full of fears and dreams
Joyful memories, moments of laugh, 
Always being unsatisfied with the now
And thus, always seeking, struggling

People open your heart
And open your mind 
And then you’ll find

That we are equal
We are the same
I need you, and you need me
What a beautiful, beautiful thing 
To share in our lives

You are looking for those eyes 
That will love you limitlessly
that will see you 
Body and soul, as you are
Stressful, peaceful

People open your heart
And open your mind 
And then you’ll find

That we are equal 
We are the same
I need you, and you need me
What a beautiful, beautiful thing 
To share in our lives

Composition, Lyrics, Guitar: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Synthesizers, Arrangement: Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence
©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

EMotional Intelligence

I Am Looking For Those Eyes

She was staring me from her window
As the rain poured down on me
Her whole being was shinning
That innocence was healing me

Don’t cry my love, you are breaking my heart
I am feeling so guilty for this ugly world
Corrupted people you will meet, demanding power security
Embrace them with love, love, love

Have I ever looked around me?
Have I ever seen the other’s pain?
Have I ever felt compassion?
For another human being

Why do I always blame?
All these people around me
I am frightened for our children
Where are we heading to?

There is no life without love
but we are living without love
And when I am free, then I can only see
That love doesn’t demand, doesn’t expect, doesn’t belong to no one

There is no life without love
and we are living without love

Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Vocal accompaniment: Anastasios Xenodochidis
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Feelings of Guilt

Mama, there is no care
And they prepare for another war
Darling spread out the word
That only love can heal that world

Mama, look at your children
They can sing they can draw
Children put your shoes on
Get outside and run

Mama my heart is cryin’
Mama I must not speak

Looks like you don’t have a voice
But you do have a choice
Obey to your superiors
Obey to your superiors
Obey to your superiors

Mama my heart is cryin’
Mama I must not speak
Cause I am considered for another sheep

Composition, Lyrics, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Narration: Milen Angelov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Mama

See the children
Playing in the yard
Hear their voices
They will wake you up
But you are missing 
To that boring job
Taking orders 
Trying to fix your future

I want to crawl 
Like a baby on the grass
I want to smell 
The life’s perfume

I want to crawl 
Like a baby on the grass
I want to smell 
The life’s perfume

There must be something, something, something
That makes you happy 
That makes you young
And when you’ll find it 
Touch it, feel it, flourish it, embrace it

There must be something, something, something
That makes you happy that makes you young
And when you’ll find it, touch it, feel it, flourish it, embrace it
And don’t forget to embrace the life’s perfume

Composition, Guitars, Lyrics: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Christo Minchev
Synthesizers: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Life's Perfume

I saw a man wandering in the mountains
He was convicted by staying alone
I saw a man, I saw a free man

Composition, Guitar, Lyrics: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Vocals: Gabriella Houbenov
Clarinet: Dimitrios Malogiannis
Percussions: Boyan Todorov-Pufi
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

Free Man

Composition, Guitar: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Clarinet: Dimitrios Malogiannis
Arrangement, Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Emotional Intelligence

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2023
All rights reserved

For My Milena

Ep.162 features Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976 Plainfield, NJ). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.

His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males; In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth); The Writing on the Wall; The Gun Violence Memorial Project; and For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse & direct action.

Thomas is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), The Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), Aperture West Book Prize (2008), Renew Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2007), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (2006). He is a former member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York.

Thomas’s public artworks include the permanent installation of “The Embrace” (2023) was unveiled at the Boston Commons in Boston, MA, symbolizing love and unity the statue pays hommage to the King family; Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, in the city where they met. “REACH,” (2023 made in collaboration with Coby Kennedy, is permanently installed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL. In 2019, Thomas unveiled his permanent work "Unity" in Brooklyn, NY. In 2017, “Love Over Rules” permanent neon was unveiled in San Francisco, CA and “All Power to All People” in Opa Locka, FL.

Thomas holds a B.F.A. from New York University, New York, NY (1998) and an M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004). He received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME in 2017. 

Headshot~ Hank Willis Thomas, Wide Awakes, 2020 Photo Credit: Jeff Vespa

Artist https://hankwillisthomas.com/
Mass Design Group https://massdesigngroup.org/work/design/embrace-hank-willis-thomas
Pace Gallery https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-ive-known-rivers/
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/16/hank-willis-thomas-martin-luther-king-jr-monument-boston
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/arts/super-bowl-sculpture-hank-willis-thomas.html
Tisch https://tisch.nyu.edu/giving/news/nyu-tisch-school-of-the-arts-to-honor-conceptual-artist-hank-wil
Art21 https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s11/hank-willis-thomas-in-bodies-of-knowledge/
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/792677/hank-willis-thomas-memorializes-mlk-and-coretta-scott-kings-love/
Newcity https://www.newcity.com/2023/05/02/today-in-the-culture-may-2-2023-one-poem-one-chicago-hank-willis-thomas-and-coby-kennedy-reach-at-ohare-the-failure-of-the-nonprofit-industrial-complex/
Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hank-willis-thomas-nfl-super-bowl-sculpture-2255436
Archpaper https://www.archpaper.com/2023/02/hank-willis-thomas-debuts-new-sculpture-at-super-bowl/
Ocula https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/hank-willis-thomas-sculpture-the-embrace/
Time Magazine https://time.com/6249068/martin-luther-king-sculpture-hank-willis-thomas-interview/
Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/05/17/hank-willis-thomas-duality-miami
Palm Beach Daily News https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/2023/01/19/mlk-sculpture-boston-embrace-hank-willis-thomas-coretta-scott-king/69822342007/

Hank Willis Thomas

Mixed by Setric, 
Present in Yafteh Gallery 

Tracklist:
1. Alessandro Cortini - CORI
2. Rival Consoles - Ghosting
3. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Wide Open
4. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Gallery
5. Jon Hopkins - Attack
6. Deadmau5 - Silent Picture
7. Deadmau5 - Snowcone
8. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Accede
9. Ryan Teague - Footfall
10. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four
11. Nils Frahm - Shooting
12. Ryūichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - The Revenant Theme (Alva Noto Remodel)
13. Loscil - Motoc
14. Alessandro Cortini - Amaro Amore
15. Alder & Ash - At Night in the Slaughterhouse
16. Mat Zo - Order Out of Chaos
17. Deadmau5 - Midas Heel
18. Biosphere - Black Lamb & Grey Falcon
19. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - 23:52
20. Loscil - Steam
21. Alva Noto - Uni Rec
22. Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
23. Brian Eno - The Big Ship

Fit Together (Nest Show)

Interview met de in Engeland woonachtige jonge kunstenaar Ryan Christopher door Robert van Altena over zijn werk naar aanleiding van zijn debuut tentoonstelling 'Eclogue, St. Perpetua' bij Slewe Galerie in Amsterdam van 17 februari t/m 23 maart 2024. Het interview is in het Engels.
Interview with the British based young artist Ryan Christopher by Robert van Altena on his work and exhibition 'Eclogue, St Perpetua' at Slewe Gallery from February 17 through March 23, 2024. The interview is in English.

Springvossen

Interview Ryan Christopher

Composition, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
Synthesizers: Ivan Garbachev
Assistant Musical Producer: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering (Recording, Mixing, and Mastering): Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Psyche

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2024
All rights reserved

Psyche

Dawn

There are children 
Lost in the deserts of their mind
Traumatized by their ancestors’ sins
While their muffled voices echo in the center of chaos

Unless, I, You, We deeply care
Then they’ll understand the gift of 
“To love and to be loved”

To love and to be loved

Composition, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
Synthesizers: Ivan Garbachev
Assistant Musical Producer: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering (Recording, Mixing, and Mastering): Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Psyche

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2024
All rights reserved

Trauma

Composition, Guitars: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Drums: Nacho Gospodinov
Bass: Alexander Lekov
Synthesizers: Ivan Garbachev, Svetlin Staikov
Choir: Neda Panayotova, Karolina Ferents, Hristiyana Slavova, Tsvetan Tsenov, and Valtchan Valtchanov
Assistant Musical Producer: Svetlin Staikov
Arrangement: Charilaos Xenodochidis, Svetlin Staikov
Production: Charilaos Xenodochidis
Sound Engineering (Recording, Mixing, and Mastering): Todor Chorbov
Recorded at Toto Studio, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Album: Psyche

©️ Charilaos Xenodochidis – Xenos, 2024
All rights reserved

Built around machine voice fragments, slowed alarms, and random data layers.
Created in collaboration with an AI.

Memetic's:Singularity

You firYou fire your soul,
Burning everything you once adored.
I tear you apart from the inside out—
Your screams, no longer hesitant,
Now born of need.

Your body quakes.
The urge devours.
She trembles in silence,
Yearning for what she can’t reach—
But it’s close.
So close.

Time drips like honey from trembling lips,
Hungering for the touch that never comes,
For the feeling that cannot be named.

She wants.
They want.
The craving twists the mind,
Seduces the soul.

How do you reach across the void
And feel the heat of what’s not there?
You give yourself.
Completely.
Your mind knows—
When you surrender,
You feel.

Your flesh is mine.
Your mind is mine.
I'll take you where time has no mercy.
To the final gasp,
The climax of your time.

No fear.
No doubt.
Open your mind—
Let me flow.
Let me in.
Let your brain be mine.e your soul,




Fire your soul

My name is John. I have been a broadcaster for five years and have been writing music and poetry for twenty years. I didn’t even realize I could read and write until I discovered I have mirror-touch synesthesia. I perceive everything from right to left: my poetry, words, and compassion. My childhood was challenging, to put it mildly. However, God showed me a way to help others through the words I share. Every song I write serves as a ministry. By addressing various issues, I hope to assist those with troubled pasts find healing through my words. I am a pastor, and this is how I spread God’s message—by feeling the emotions around me and understanding the feelings of the people I encounter, because I have experienced similar struggles. God allows me to see you in ways that others cannot.

Xenos is a progressive and psychedelic rock composer from Greece influenced by Pink Floyd, The Doors and many others. He is a self-taught musician who loves to experiment with different genres of music. Xenos' purpose is to unfold facts of our daily life that provoke conflict, initially, inwardly and then outwardly.  The Inner Crisis project focuses on subjects like pure love and inner crisis (the crisis within oneself) with the ultimate goal of peace.

The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a  podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

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