Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Poll - Anphrope [Ανθρωπε] (1972)

This group had some commercial success in Greece with their melodic hippie folk-rock full of acoustic guitars, bongos and vocal harmonies. Their first album Anphrope (recorded as a quintet with an unidentified female vocalist) was the best of the two with some tasty fuzz guitars, bouzouki and sitar. While this came out in a sleeve made out of sacking, their second included 12 pages of comics with Poll-members starring as super heroes.
Dag Erik Asbjørnsen in "Scented Gardens Of The Mind"

Although I'm not very impressed by early '70s music from Greece I must say that this is a very pleasent album full of nice melodies and a psychedelic vibe all over the place. The album was re-issued on CD in 1994 (Polydor 523 638-2).

Tracklist:
- Poll Means Love
- Φοβοι Μου
- Ψαχνω Να Βρω Το Φιλο Μου
- Στην Πηγη Μια Κοπελα
- 2.000 Λογοι
- Παρασκευας Για Ανθρωπους
- Και Μιλωντας Για Ανθρωπους
- Ο Γερος
- Χρωματα
- Piccadilly Circus
- Γιατι Εχει Μακρια Μαλλια
- Σημερα Κι Αυριο
- Πεστε Μου Τι Θελω/Ροll Σημαινει Αγαπη/Ποιος Θα Δειξει
- Ηγενια Μας [bonus]
- Ελα Ηλιε Μου [bonus]
- Ανθρωπε Αγαπα [bonus]

Personnel:
Nasia Sandi (vcls)
Kostas Touras (gtr, vcls, keyb’ds, kazoo, perc)
Robert Williams (gtr, piano, vcls)
Stavros Logarides (bs, vcls, gtr, piano, kazoo, perc)
Kostas Papajoan (drms, perc)

Band origin:
Athens (Greece)

Discographie:
Albums:
1. Ανθρωπε (Polydor 2421011) 1972
2. Poll (Polydor 2421025) 1972

45's:
1. Άνθρωπε Αγάπα/Ελα Ηλιε Μου (Polydor 2061075) 1971

Get it here (Artwork included)

Listen to Ηγενια Μας
at

18 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 8, 2008 at 1:09 PM

    Hello Buffalo.
    The only music I know from Greece is Socrates and a few folk albums,so good to discover other groups.Yesterday olympic flame was in Paris most of time in a bus with 3000 policemen around;strange picture of freedom in France.Tomorrow flame is in SAN FRANCISCO land of all the great music we love.
    Have you some problems with Rapidshare?.For me it's the quickest mode of download and easy to download 5,10 or more albums in the same time with premium.

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  2. AnonymousApril 8, 2008 at 3:46 PM

    salut jean bernard,

    désolé d'utiliser cemoyen pour te parler mais je ne savais pas comment te contacter. Cela fait plusieur fois que je lis des commentaires de toi. Est-ce que tu as par hasard l'album wink des shaggs et si oui peux-tu le partager avec moi? merci d'avance pour ta réponse

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  3. AnonymousApril 8, 2008 at 7:52 PM

    Gracias por tu estupendo trabajo, no me canso de visitar tu blog, uno de los mejores.
    Salud

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  4. AnonymousApril 9, 2008 at 8:10 AM

    Desole ami anonyme je n'ai pas ce cd radioactive de 2007.Il est disponible sur amazone.
    Jean Bernard

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  5. Buffalo BillycanApril 9, 2008 at 9:08 AM

    Hi jeanbernard,
    the problem with rapidshare is that sharebee just don't do an upload anymore. The same problem I've got with massmirror. Further I've seen other bloggers get their files deleted at rapidshare.

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  6. aldoApril 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM

    i'm listening to this right now, very interesting, i'm sure i'llget back to it often.
    by the way, thanks for your comment in my blog about ILLES.
    I'm glad to see you DO know the band and totally agree with you.
    as soon as i can i'll put more up (tried lately...my slow/bad connection would not permit it!)

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  7. AnonymousApril 9, 2008 at 5:53 PM

    Hello Buffalo.
    I don't remember if I asked you in my old comments a track of BALL"fight for my country"recorded in 1971.The tapestry of delight write the title is on a cd compilation called"jagged time lapse vol2";so if you find one time think at me.Thanks.

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  8. Buffalo BillycanApril 9, 2008 at 10:46 PM

    Hi jeanbernard,
    I will post the jagged time lapse compilations soon.

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  9. AnonymousApril 9, 2008 at 11:26 PM

    Hello Buffalo
    very please to read you have the cds.

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  10. aldoApril 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM

    With so much stuff around the web these days I imagine a lot of people just going past this one...it's in Greek after all...
    I'M SO GLAD I STOPPED BY.
    I LOVE THIS RECORD!
    I've been playing it few times over the last few days:
    thanks a lot!

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  11. Buffalo BillycanApril 13, 2008 at 11:14 PM

    Yes, aldo
    I think this album grows with every listen.

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  12. AnonymousApril 14, 2008 at 9:26 PM

    Thanks for your wonderful job, amazing comps!

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  13. AnonymousJuly 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    ABOUT THE GREEK SCENE, YOU WON'T FIND MUCH, BUT IT IS WORTH TRYING !!
    TRY THE APHRODITES' CHILD, NOSTRADAMOS, THE 1ST LP BY POLL WITH THE COMIC BOOK THAT IS INCLUDED, PELOMA BOKIU (ΠΕΛΟΜΑ ΜΠΟΚΙΟΥ) ETC.
    ΤΗΑΝKS ANYWAY !!!!!!!!

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  14. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM

    MEGALE S'EYXARISTO PARA POLY!!!!!!
    ARGYRIS, GREECE.

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  15. killing floorFebruary 25, 2010 at 5:47 PM

    This is the second album of ''Poll''
    Do you want any links about Greek
    groups.?
    Thanks a lot. Great blog.!

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  16. killing floorMarch 7, 2010 at 1:17 AM

    http://rapidshare.com/files/359954342/Peloma_Bokiou_-_Peloma_Bokiou__1972_.rar

    This is another great album of greek
    rock scene from early '70s

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  17. AnonymousMarch 7, 2010 at 1:03 PM

    Thanks a lot for another great post!
    You' ve got an amazing blog!
    GR

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  18. AnonymousSeptember 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    Thank you from my inner places of my heart!!!

    Billy-Greece!

    Try Kostas Tournas-Astroneira (LP)
    from his personal discography in the 70s!

    Really sweet space/folk rock!

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