When do words have value? When do words regain their meaning? When people speak from their soul, what do they say? The discourse in the pages of this book concerns the love for life, the need to become innocent and light-hearted again like children, the eternal desire for freedom, the true meaning of existence, the truth and pain of everyday people, the blinding light of a country sinking into darkness and rising again like a phoenix from its ashes, the lost honor of embrace and tenderness, the nostalgia that pertains not to the past but to the future.
Giannis Zouganelis in this collection of texts speaks about all this and even more. He takes the words and, from simple sounds, transforms them into small universal truths, filling them with meaning that only the senses and emotions can give. He makes his personal fears and innermost hopes the concern, care, and upliftment of us all.
The music of the CD that accompanies the book – both humanly otherworldly and almost Dionysian earthly – lovingly caresses the wounds of the words and makes reading a personal journey back to ourselves, to the melodies and rhythms that (re)generate us even when we forget them.