#Paralia

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Inside the Para Lia Soundscape: The Story Behind "Mind Song" The music talent of Para Lia shines through in their ability to create music that’s personal yet strikes a universal chord with listeners. The band displays this talent through their recent release "Mind Song". The song perfectly unites 70s rock raw power with psychedelic indie intricate textures to produce an irresistible musical experience that welcomes listeners instantly into its enchanting sonic world. Para Lia blends musical elements from 90s indie rock with 60s garage sounds and the progressive music that emerged during the early 70s to form their musical foundation. The band Para Lia presents their mature musical direction on Mind Song through their expanded six-member membership. Under live recording conditions the track maintains an authentic feeling while maintaining the sense of both spontaneity and careful production work. The powerful musical production of Mind Song hides a meaningful message that guides listeners to embrace their true selves by defying social expectations. An exclusive interview will examine the creation of Mind Song and the artistic development of the band before revealing Para Lia's musical plans for 2025. Listen to Mind Song below https://open.spotify.com/album/3lGPOcD5zQgfhkn0cLD8ZK?si=PZ89WUkMRiW7TQzaK1kOJA Follow Para Lia on Facebook Twitter Spotify Soundcloud Bandcamp Youtube Instagram Tiktok   What inspired the introspective theme behind "Mind Song", and Can you tell us about the creative journey that led to its development, I mean how does your collaborative process work when creating new music? Can you walk us through how this particular track came together? Mind Song with it’s stomping rhythm is inspired by the groove and the feel of early 70s music like Slade classics and stuff like this. René, the songwriter of the band had one day this melody playing in his head, the hook line of the song. And he started the songwriting, worked out the arrangement and then recorded a demo tape for the band. Finally the band worked out final version of the song and it was nice – for the single release - to record the single tracks and to work with lakeside studio in Berlin, where Dirk Burke did the mixing and mastering of the track. Your sound has been evolving throughout your career. How do you feel "Mind Song" represents your artistic growth? It is the first recording in our current lie up as band of 6 and it has the Para Lia sound, which has, as we often hear, something distinctive. But at the same time you can listen here to the energy of the whole band – and the recording was done under live conditions, so it is a very authentic piece of music, showing how tha band sounds. https://youtu.be/tv3JG1n-5Cc What were some of the technical or emotional challenges you faced while recording "Mind Song"? We did it all in a very short time – and it was a surprising good flow, like a mirror of the band playing live gigs. So it was a pleasure to see how it goes. Are there any specific musical influences that shaped the sound of this single? As in all the Para Lia stuff you find influences of 90s indierock as well as influences of 60s garage and psychedelic and early 70s prog rock. The thing with Mind Song is the same as in other Para Lia songs – to melt influences and the Para Lia music Cosmos to a very own sound. The title "Mind Song" suggests a deep psychological element. What message do you hope listeners take away from this track? Music journalist Dave Franklin got it very well as he wrote some days ago in New York based Big takeover Magazine: „The message is both simple and poignant, timeless and timely – don’t be pulled into the dark complexities of the ego, don’t be swayed by what seems to be too good to be true (because it always is), and don’t worry about the superficial, don’t play societies power games… keep your mind song pure and let it sing about the things that make you happy. Life is short; live it on your terms and be who you want.“

How has your approach to songwriting changed since you first started making music? Getting better as a musician day by day, year by year. Learning a lot about arranging songs, playing a lot of instruments to record the demo version as a base fort he band to work it out. Increasing this helps a lot. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1cLZhbb6pWX67RV0eaWyXY Can you tell us about the production choices you made to capture the emotional essence of this song? We used low equipment – but we put a lot of energy, emotion and feel in it. Mybe you can hear it. What role does your local music scene play in shaping your artistic vision? Being part of the local music scene in our region is a very nice thing. To have a fan base here is a huge support. Looking ahead, how does "Mind Song" fit into your broader musical journey? Does it hint at new directions you'd like to explore? Mind Song is the first of a couple of singles, which will see the light of day in 2025. So our plan is to play some nice live gigs this year and also work out and to record some more new stuff. The Para Lia cosmos leads the direction – but the band always is good for including surprising sounds and moments.

[mediasombra]

No sé si es mi obsesión con congelar los instantes para que tengan ventaja sobre el tiempo, o cuál sea realmente la razón, pero cada vez que haces un gesto simple, parece que el reloj se detiene un poco.

Para mí, el universo está hecho de actos sencillos; por ejemplo, el día que me dijiste que me querías. Antes, ya lo había hecho yo, pero cuando tú lo dijiste, cuando dejaste de guardarlo, se apagaron todos los fuegos, desapareció el oxígeno, pero yo no dejé de respirar. Del mismo modo, el descubrimiento de todos los secretos: de quién eras tú, de quién soy yo y de cómo seguir confiando, porque en cada acto mágico hay un porcentaje de realidad.

Seguramente, el día en que naciste le dijeron a tu mamá que serías la clave de reinicio para toda la vida, y yo apenas me vine a enterar.

[sencilla-mentelibros]

[travelella]

Paralia, Greece

Vitalie Sitnic

[filmap]

Attenberg Athina Rachel Tsangari. 2010

Factory Agios Nikolaos power station, Distomo 321 00, Greece See in map

See in imdb

[lumpoflilies]

Sunday, 10.09PM 𓆜 LYS_PARALIA

A little while, after the engulfing eyes and suprises dusk—to Tabitha, the tide of the night should peacefully slide with warmth. As a person who embraces solitude, nothing excites her more than an alone time within the ocean breeze.

Her grumbling gut, then, calls for a comforting grill. Choices are not so many—but, tofu dogs wouldn't hurt, right? Not even going back for another swim, will pain her. 🥓🥢

[coffeenewstom]

Samiotisches Kaffeetagebuch II: Paralia Meli und Taverna Netia

Bei meinem ersten Besuch auf Patmos vor über 30 Jahren hatte ich einen Insulaner namens Joannis kennengelernt. Der war Griller in einer Taverne – unserer damaligen Stamm-Taverne – direkt am Hafen. Eine der Erinnerungen, die ich an Patmos habe, war, wie wir in der Taverne sitzend die Ankunft der Fischerbote beobachten konnten. Deren leckere Fracht frischer Fisch und Oktopoden. Einige Jungs aus dem…

[athwaperistera]

[alritaklegacy]

Zumasha: So, I hope you're comfortable saying whatever it is you were feeling straight to my face.

Paralia: We don't like you. Now, shut up and help us.

Zumasha: [shrugs] Fair enough.

[polyxrwmhpsyxh]

kwlo zesth kai egw diavazw gia eksetastikh anti na eimai se mia paralia me alatismena mallia kai mojito sto xeri

e trava gamhsou

[spiritfairer9925]

click for a better view! Paralia!! My baby! (I'm trying to build up my dragon portfolio for the forms :3) Pay them a visit if you like!

[mediasombra]

Siempre te he dicho que llevo cicatrices profundas que no piden ayuda, y creo, por cuánto hemos hablado, que a ti te pasa igual. Suelo pensar que no necesitamos una mano que nos levante, sino tan solo el silencio: un espacio en el que la voz respire y deje de hacer eco en el pecho. Eso es en lo que quiero que se conviertan estas cartas.

[sgiandubh]

I salute the brave Greek singer Despina Vandi 👏- who refused to go on stage in Turkey, because of hanging a photo of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Dear Despina Vandi Anon,

As promised, here is your audio. It should count as Sunday's delivery for the vast majority of this fandom's time zones, so expect another one the week that just started, on a different topic - Anons never cease to amaze me:

I very much doubt our readers know who Despina is, so I'll make a proper introduction:

Yeah, she'd like to think of herself as Greece's Taylor Swift, but the honest truth is her decent voice serves the cause of bubble-gummy Balkan turbo pop. The kind of forgettable BS you hear on a beach, somewhere around Paralia Katerini, Anon. My favorite in Greece, Kambos Beach, on Patmos, will give you Janis Joplin instead, and I love those guys to bits for that.

But anyhow, the topic is serious, even if the event itself might sound as just another starlet's whim. What happened was immediately instrumentalized by the press on both sides of the Great Post-Ottoman Divide, simply because we are dealing here with fundamental identity tropes - handle with care, always.

In a nutshell, on July 17th, Despina Vandi was scheduled to appear in concert in the (otherwise positively sleepy) town of Çeşme, on the South-western coast of Turkey. The problem with Çeşme is double: a) it is near Izmir, formerly known as Smyrna, before the early-ish days of the Turkish Republic, in 1930, and the epicenter of the troubled transition from the sultan's powerless despotism to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's aggressively secular autocracy. And to add insult to injury, b) it is a municipality run by the left-wing CHP, the main opponent to Erdoğan's overbearing political project. The New Sultan's dream clashes mightily with the Founding Father's ambition of an emancipated, literate Turkey. So much so in fact, that one might see a mild rebellion gesture in the fact that the organizers thought fit to decorate the stage with a Turkish flag and Mustafa Kemal's portrait - something you see pretty much everywhere in today's Turkey, from libraries to pastry shops, to be honest. What followed is emotionally logical: Vandi abruptly canceled her appearance, because she felt that her performance was politically manipulated and the mayor of Çeşme angrily invited her to get out of his town ASAP, because he felt that nobody puts Baby Atatürk in a corner.

Vandi's reaction is entirely faithful to the Byzantine centuries-long tradition of defiance and spite towards the Turks. The Mayor's reaction is an irked reply to the uncomfortable situation of losing face because and in front of a woman singer, who showed utter disrespect for the Father Figure in the room. But beyond the heated, almost farcical argument we are perhaps talking about what Jay-Z called an 'Empire state of mind'. 'Never the twain shall meet', to respond to the golden-fanged rapper with some Kipling. At least since the evening of that fateful day of May 30th 1453, when Constantinople finally capitulated in fear, fire and collective trauma to the Ottomans.

Steven Runciman sums up best that feeling of cosmic impending doom:

"The month of May was drawing to a close; and in the gardens and the hedgerows the roses were now in bloom. But the moon was waning, and the men and women of Byzantium, the ancient city whose symbol had been the moon, prepared themselves to meet the crisis that all knew to be upon them." (The Fall of Constantinople)

The Greek mind never quite came to terms with that feeling of being under siege. The Ottoman (and post-Ottoman) mind never quite came to terms with the imposter syndrome that ensues a cursed victory. Its genuine administrative genius that ensured for hundreds of years an almost complete domination of the Levantine world failed to adapt itself to the industrial and bourgeois revolutions of the Nineteenth century. Despite that very costly Berlin-Bagdad railway, the train of modernization was never caught at a moment that could ensure the political survival of its Empire.

But an Empire is never completely dead and done with. As Philip K. Dick famously wrote in VALIS, one of his most strange novels, 'The Empire never ends'. He was, of course, talking about the Roman Empire and how he bizarrely felt about its timeline overlapping with the Watergate Scandal. Yet, despite the clearly psychotic inspiration of that book, I think he was onto something. An Empire never ends, to the extent that its faint echoes still inform even the most apparently trivial news of our own reality.

But this, I suspect you might know better than me, Anon, judging from the tone of your comment. In that case, γεια σας και σας ευχαριστούμε πάρα πολύ για την υπομονή σας.

[violetsandshrikes]

If you're in Aotearoa NZ or intend to travel here, it can be extremely helpful if you're familiar with a few high risk invasive species we're monitoring, especially if you're travelling the country.

One campaign right now is targeted at a Sea Spurge species (Euphorbia paralias).

Sea spurge infestations have caused major environmental problems at many Australian beaches by displacing native plants and changing natural patterns of sand movement - they are carried here by ocean movements, and have been reported in the Waikato region.

Sightings can be reported to Biosecurity NZ - there are pest and disease hotlines. For getting familiar yourself with this plant, you can see it here.

It can be very hard to educate the public about risks, and doubly so when an invasive species is not an animal. Keeping yourself aware can be extremely helpful to continue to protect our ecosystems!