LYRICS: IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS  So you've been told

CD album: Be a master of your fate! (2000 Homo Ecumenicus Publishing)

Genre: A fusion of jazz, rock, and classical
Arrangement: Classical guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboard, bass, drums, vocals
Lyrical subject: The role of religions, ideologies and value systems in environmental destruction.

 

So you've been told

 

So you’ve been told: ‘Increase in numbers, fill the earth’.

And so you did.

You filled it, subdued it, flooded with waste.

 

So you’ve been told: ''Rule over the creatures that move on the ground''

Now, are you satisfied?

You ruled it, you swept it, you are almost left alone.

 

Now full of complains, you still don't blame your mind;

you better think again or pay the price.

 

Beware your precious friends, the Cheap and the Rubbish

waiting there patiently your grave to establish.

 

  

 

All songs in this album were composed, arranged, and performed by Ioannidis Nikolaos 

 

N. Ioannidis  is a composer, lyricist, guitar soloist and multi-instrumentalist performer (BA Music & Media Studies, MA Digital Media Studies, currently doctoral candidate in Musicology at the University of Sussex)

 

Visit also: the Ioannidis Mp3 page where you can listen to samples and download your favorite songs fast and safely at the price of  $ 1.00 per song. You can  also buy or download the composer's CDs, and even create a custom collection of songs to be burned on a CD, at his shopping page using the Homo Ecumenicus online  payment service or other payment methods (PayPal, Cheque, Money Order, Bank transfer)

 

LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY IOANNIDIS

A list of all IOANNIDIS' works (musical works, lyrics, essays, translations of classical texts) is available at his WORKS page.

 

ESSAYS on music and media

 

MP3 files of his musical works  (samples and some full songs) are available for downloading at the Ioannidis Mp3 page

 

Works  of interest to classicists and composers 

The Music of Ancient Greeks    an approach to the original singing of the Homeric epics and the lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C.

MUSIC and RELIGION (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant)

Oedipus Rex English opera. Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king".

 

Works  of interest to poets and lyricists Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems translated into English by Ioannidis  (The original Greek texts are also available on the same page) 

 

LYRICS   (to songs from the albums Mass insanity , BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE! ,  AREN'T YOU FED UP? ) dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the erosion of the nation state, globalization, terrorism, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society.

 

Works  of interest to music performers

Instrumental performance:12-string Guitar Works (12 string classical guitar), Mass insanity (electric guitar, fretless guitar), The Music of Ancient Greeks   (ancient Greek instruments -ancient kithara, aulos, ethnic percussion).

Vocal performance: MUSIC and RELIGION (including some tracks with performance of ancient Greek instruments)

Visit also the page: ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS with information about ancient stringed instruments and replicas of some of them

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