“Singing is a difficult sport. He should be able to aim straight at the heart for three minutes,” said Lina Nikolakopoulou excitedly after the end of the play “My Breath and Air” last Saturday. The lyricist took the stage with her colleague Paraskeva Karasulos and the three young singers who carry the entire program on their shoulders: Thodoris Nicolau, Apostolos Kitsos and Panagiotis Lambouras to receive a warm applause from the audience. And rightly so, because these two hours in the hospitable space of the Athens cafe-theater, exuding the conspiratorial warmth of old boutiques, heal the soul. Not only does the small scale form an embrace around the performers, but also the originality of the idea. Two of the greatest songwriters of recent decades are joining forces, emphasizing verse, the word, as the cornerstone of songs that have written their own history in our lives.

The truth is that the most daring are the three young singers. Against the backdrop of reality television shows, the insatiable publicity mania at any cost, the omnipotent shapes of the big night runs, the three young men are like sailors who, with the wind of their sensitivity, manage to navigate through unfavorable times. With great talent, but also with great difficulty, they are worthy of interpretation, which has the stamp of the great voices of Vikis Mossoliou, Alcysta Protopsaltis, Dimitra Galani, Manolis Mitsias, Dimitris Mitropanos and the musical compositions of Spanos, Nikos Antipas, Xarchakos. , Bregovic, Hadginassios, Mikroutsikos. They are not afraid to take the baton from the older generation and give their flavor to the melodies that we all sang. If you consider that all three were actually born in the 1980s and 1990s, it turns out that they grew up and formed on these very lyrics, which they now sing themselves.

Paraskevas Karasulos always emphasizes that “Together” is an integral part of this performance in times of loneliness, as well as in times when the music industry has changed and imposed its own conditions on the production and popularity of music. This is a return to quality, to good “raw materials” as a basis, which the author of the text suggests to the composer and the singer to put pressure on the song to be born together. The performance reminds us that behind every verse there is a need, a story, an emotion, the experience of Lina Nikolacopoulos or Paraskeva Karasulos, something that concerns their very life, that from the personal has become collective and has touched our strings. The show at the Athens Café-Theater in Kodrigtonos is an unexpected partnership that has been approved by the public by word of mouth and has thus been extended until March 31st. Mikri Arkto’s performance was orchestrated by the composer Christ Theodorou.