Eimai

Eimai
Studio album by Anna Vissi
Released December 14, 1990
Recorded 1990
Genre Pop, laika
Label CBS Greece
Producer Nikos Karvelas
Anna Vissi chronology

Fotia
(1989)
Eimai
(1990)
Emeis
(1992)
Singles from Eimai
  1. "Fos"
    Released: December 1990
  2. "Ena Sou Leo"
    Released: February 1991
  3. "Ime"
    Released: April 1991
  4. "Adika"
    Released: July 1991
  5. "Ipervoles"
    Released: September 1991
Cover of the 1990 LP and CD pressings.

Eimai is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released in Greece and Cyprus in 1990 by CBS Greece.

Background

The song "Perimeno Tilefonima Sou" is dedicated to the musical The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The album's proposed title was Ipervoles (Exaggerations), but at the last minute the title of the first track was chosen instead.

The music video for the album's first single, "Fos", is noted as being one of the first ever large-scale music video production in Greece. Vissi is portrayed as Esmeralda.

The music video for the second single, "Ena Sou Leo", was based on Greek Hollywood actress Melina Merkouri's famous scene from the film Stella, where at the end Vissi is also killed by her boyfriend. After it was produced, Vissi and Nikos Karvelas decided that it was scandalously raw for the Greek market, so they filmed it again with Vissi singing in the rain. Despite being a simple video, it was widely acclaimed by fans.

In 1997, a remastered version of the original album was released on CD.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Nikos Karvelas.

  1. "Ime"
  2. "Adika"
  3. "Fos"
  4. "Perimeno Tilefonima Sou"
  5. "Ipopsies"
  6. "Ena Sou Leo"
  7. "I Zoi Sinehizete"
  8. "Ipervoles"
  9. "Ksehnas"
  10. "Mono Ena Thavma"

Singles

Credits and personnel

Personnel
  • Nikos Karvelas - music, lyrics
  • Tony Kontaxakis - electric guitar (Core Amps)
  • Anna Vissi - vocals
  • Kostas Thomaïdis - mandolin

Production
  • Nikos Karvelas/Sony Music - production management
  • Nikos Karvelas - arrangements, instrument playing
  • Manolis Vlachos - computer programming, recording engineering, remixing at Studio IN
Design
  • Dinos Diamantopoulos - photos
  • Achilleas Charitos - styling, make up
  • Akis D. Gounaris - cover design
  • AKMI - films
  • Orfanos-Skaltsas - printing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[1]

References

  1. Eimai (LP, MC, CD). Anna Vissi. Sony Music. 1990.