NIKOS MAMAGKAKIS - 11 LAIKA TOU GIANNI RITSOU (11 LAIKA SONGS FROM GIANNIS RITSOS)

The "11 Laika (pop) Songs by Yannis Ritsos" were released by LYRA in November 1972, with singers Yannis Poulopoulos and Maria Douraki.

It has been one of the few times that Nikos Mamagakis has written a "cycle of songs" in his great career in music.

The era when the album was released was rather "strange" as the dictatorship regime banned every free voice and, of course, even the slightest hint against it.

Ritsos on his own side approaches the subject of love and love in his own unique way. But he does not forget to make references (even indirectly) to the political situation, which forced the junta censorship to ban the release of two songs for the album.

The performers of the album were Yannis Poulopoulos - with the "perfume" of his successful collaboration with Mimis Plessas in the past few years, and Maria Douraki, a very good voice, but he suddenly broke off its course around the beginning of the decade, 80.