Lena Platonos is one of these idiosyncratic artists that address a universal audience (crowds not encircled in specific borders) and echo their truth in every platitude. Of course, retrospectively she was recognized and rewarded with the reissues of her albums by the American label Dark Entries in San Francisco appealing in an audience that looks beyond the horizons of avant garde. Lena Platonos has indeed managed to make a difference in the Greek music scene with her bold, futuristic sound and her tendency to the electronic music and she has succeeded in that, one more time.

Lena Platonos’ love for the American poetess Emily Dickinson is not strange. Not at all. Dickinson, the poetess that died in 1886 at the age of 55, was writing with staccato laconic lines, having a tremendous touch with her inner self, living almost isolated in her room with her sociability more or less, non-existent. A true eccentric artist of her times. Just like Lena Platonos: a unique case of artist that can not fit in conventional genres and styles, ahead of her times, individualistic, authentic in a world that surrounds her, in which she tastes, feels and senses things that very few have the ability to share with her. “Although Dickinson spent the most of her time at home, due to her nervous breakdown, she was in touch with the external and internal reality, tremendously sensitive in the big issues of human existence, of love and of death, issues that penetrate the biggest bulk of her work”. Platonos’ words for Dickinson are the most convincing indication of the fascination she feels about the poetess. Such titles as “I Hide Myself Within My Flower”, “Heart, We Will Forget Him!” and “There Is Another Sky” spread the odour of lyricism and the sad isolation as well as the envision of her soul. Because Hope Is The Τhing With Feathers, indeed.

“Hope Is The Τhing With Feathers” is an album that finds Platonos using English lyrics for the first time in her career. Athina Routsi and Sissy Rada sing her songs and the  vinyl album is out by Amour Records.

Pre-order the vinyl here