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Lia Hide is the prolific lady of Greece’s dark, progressive, alt-pop. Her latest effort, The Missing Fourth Guest, is the fourth album by the Athenian avant-pop artist.
The Missing Fourth Guest borrows its title from Plato’s ‘Timeaus’ dialogue opening line and discusses the emotional struggles of the recent Covid19 pandemic and lockdowns, human mortality, and the modern man’s place in the Universe. The album contains eight tracks, and in addition, a three-fold major work in the form of a sonota.
Hide’s classical music training is evident immediately in songs like the one which we are pleased to premiere its video for today, “Proposal”. The minimalist yet stunning cinematography and direction comes together to create a visual that fits the classy yet very haunting tone of the movie to perfection.
Lia comments “The Proposal is an invitation to a debate, a dispute, a symposium, where the three people involved are searching for their Atlantis, their place in the Cosmos, their fates.”
Her songwriting is simple, pop, structured and lyrical, yet bears progressive music elements, embedding glitch and jazz fragments, cinematic guitars and orchestral layers, electronic sub drones, and industrial noises. The dark post-wave affair is brought to life by Hide’s lyrics, the music and arrangements created by Hide and bandmates Aki’Base (bass), and George Rados (drums). Additional musicians on the record include Stelios Chatzikaleas (trumpet), and Dennis Morfis (guitars.).
An international affair, the album was produced by Hide and recorded at Don’t Hide Me Studios in Athens, Greece, mixed by Ian Shaw of Warmfuzz Productions in Key West, Florida and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering in the Isle of Skye, UK
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