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Rock & roll, with a background chorus of agonised vocals as an aggravated voice narrates the appearance and My favourite songs on the album are "The Beast" and "All the Seats Were Occupied". The track as conveying "the pain of birth and the joy of sexual intercourse". "∞" ("Infinity"), the most controversial song on the album, consists of Greek actress Irene Papas chanting "I was, IĪm, I'm to come" over a sparse percussion track, gradually building into an orgasmic frenzy.
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The concept of "6 6 6" was created by Vangelis and film director Costas Ferris, who served 666, third and last release by Aphrodite Child, is an album, or rather I should say "mind The truth is that the introduction to everything with this album was a great decision. Recommended to me by my brother when I started to delve much more into unknown prog environments and The most "hybrid" album I've ever listened to, and at the same time one of my favourites. Founded in 1967 in Paris, France, by Greek musicians - Disbanded in 1972Īfter APHRODITE'S CHILD disbanded, the members took different paths, like Roussos who became a well known orchestral pop singer and VANGELIS who is still a respected Progressive/New Age artist, but none of their later works will have the importance of "666", an Icon of Progressive Rock and one of the first conceptual albums in history. The paradox is that this masterpiece which combines 100% Symphonic structure, British Psychedelia, Greek Orthodox Religious music with a touch of pop was only released in 1972 (after the band had already split) due to several prejudices caused the controversial concept ("The Book of Revelations"), the confession made by the band that "666" was conceived under the influence of Sahlep (some people believed this word was referred to some kind of pagan divinity when in fact it's a common non alcoholic beverage from Turkey) and the track "Infinity" sung by the great actress Irene Papas which is really a five minutes orgasm. But it's not until 1970, when they start to record the brilliant and adventurous "666" that they get a place in progressive Rock history, even when the relation inside the band was at the lowest point mostly because VANGELIS wanted to do more serious music than Lucas Sideras and Roussos. Their first two releases "End of the World" (which includes two hit singles, "Rain and Tears" and "I Want To Live", the last one reached N° 1 in most Europe) and "It's Five O'Clock", showed a commercial oriented band with a very peculiar sound. Soon after the birth of the band, Silver Kouloris has to leave the group because he was called for his Military Service and only joins again for the recording of their last album 666, during these years Demis Roussos has to play guitar and bass. The short story of APHRODITE'S CHILD starts in 1967, when the Greek/Egyptian bassist and vocalist named Artemios Ventouris Roussos (Demis Roussos) and the powerful drummer Lucas Sideras were supposed to meet the multi instrumentalist Evengelio Odyssey Papathanassiou ( VANGELIS) who had left his first group FORMINXS, but the first two were not admitted to the United Kingdom because they had no working permits and custom officers discovered photos and tapes in their luggage so they assumed the musicians intended to stay (Which was true).Ī few months later the three musicians join in Paris with Anargyros Koulouris (Silver Koulouris) a very competent guitar player and they decide to form a new band which was supposed to mix traditional Greek music with Western Pop and Psychedelia, but they ended doing much more than was expected.ĭue to their financial situation they had to sign a terrible contract with a record company. Founded in 1967 in Paris, France, by Greek musicians - Disbanded in 1972