Elegio
By Photis Ionatos

​Photis Ionatos recreates parcels of his story for 45 years. A story that goes through the Greece of the poets, a personal exile and a timeless transmission. In this twelfth album, the author and composer sublimes the ordinary life through a long breath on a slow rhythm, yet intense. The expression is sometimes static, the interpretation delivered without melodrama. Photis Ionatos speaks in French to facilitate the understanding and sings in Greek to attain higher levels. He captures the words of S. Tsambiras, Y. Ritsos, Homère, O. Elytis and other immortals. In La ville de K. Kavafis, he sings : “I will travel by another land, I will travel by another sea, I will surely find a better city than this”. And he succeeded, and the voyage continues with this masterpiece.

– Yves Bernard (« Le Devoir » Québec Canada)