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Genre
Greek folk (laïko) and Mediterranean pop. The album sits midway between Greece and Spain, with a light folk sound entirely accessible to the uninitiated.It blends traditional Greek musical sensibility with flamenco-influenced Spanish production, building an atmospheric bridge between the two Mediterranean traditions across fourteen tracks, with French and Spanish-language song titles alongside the Greek.
Release
Released in 2008 by Universal Music Group. An international edition titled "Mírame" was released in 2009, in which the title track was performed as a duet with Buika - the Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean heritage. The Spanish edition is described as "Y los ojos y el corazón" in translation.
Production
Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Javier Limón, the Madrid-based guitarist and producer celebrated for his work with Camarón de la Isla, Tomatito, and Diego El Cigala. Limón's signature approach - rooted in flamenco aesthetics but open to Mediterranean and world music dialogues - shapes the album's sonic identity throughout.
Reception
The album was certified Gold in Greece. The Spanish music press praised its natural convergence of Greek and Spanish influences, with the duet with Buika on the title track singled out as a particularly successful meeting of two distinctive Mediterranean voices. The international edition opened Arvanitaki's music to audiences across Southern Europe and the Spanish-speaking world.
Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Eleftheria Arvanitaki is a prominent Greek singer specialising in folk, rebetiko, and laïko music, born on October 17, 1957, in Piraeus, Greece, with family roots tracing to the islands of Ikaria and Paxoi.he began her career by joining the ensemble Opisthodromiki Kompania in 1980, a group dedicated to reinterpreting rembetika songs, and made her recording debut as a guest vocalist on Vangelis Germanos's 1981 album. Her solo debut followed in 1984, and her subsequent albums - Kontrabanto (1986), Ta Kormia kai ta Machairia (1994), and Tragoudia gia tous Mines (1996) - all went platinum in Greece. She performed at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics in 2004. She has become a key figure in reviving and modernising traditional Greek musical genres, collaborating with composers including Ara Dinkjian and Nikos Xydakis. Her most celebrated song, "Dynata," was composed by Dinkjian with lyrics by Lina Nikolakopoulou and became an international hit.
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