Altāria  
New Album by Miltos Pavlou

Miltos Pavlou and Protasis Music present the new album Altāria, a collection of thirteen deeply personal songs. Eleven tracks feature original Greek lyrics by Miltos Pavlou, one features his original English lyrics, and one is a musical setting of a poem by Caesar Emmanuel.

Altāria marks a shift to a new sound — more rock-oriented, at times electronic and dynamic, yet simultaneously classical, with occasional theatrical textures and a ritualistic weight. The themes revolve around the many forms of love, children and the parental bond, the persecuted and the paradoxes of the world, loss and mourning that lead to redemption and clarity through the search for and preservation of what truly matters.

What does Altāria / Altaeria mean?

“Besides being the name of my small studio and underground refuge in Vienna, it is a coded word — at once a journey and a destination — that condenses and connects life experiences. It symbolises memories, creations, destructions and rebirths, the decisive moments in our lives and their after-effects.

In this way, the songs on the album become ‘offerings’ — dedications and creations that we symbolically and mentally preserve and keep at our personal ‘altars’ (altāria), our makeshift shrines, our inner sanctums, within the ‘temples’ and precious inner spaces each of us builds. Small palaces, asylums or refuges that we construct and strive for throughout our lives in order to achieve transcendence, reconciliation, and to give life some meaning.

Every track on the album is an offering to the mind and soul in those rare moments when they seem to rise — in consciousness, in loss, in redemption and acceptance, and ultimately in upliftment through the eternal (and ultimately vain) effort to exorcise our own mortality.

These songs were written at different times over the past decades and, especially, in the most recent critical years. As a result, each one is autonomous, carrying its own special weight and developing with a distinct musical form and independent style. In their almost processional sequence on the album, moving through a path between individual and collective concerns, the songs explore aspects of the human condition. They speak of confusion and clarity, of eros and passion, of parental love, of inequalities and the dystopias of our times and of human society, of memory and oblivion.”

—Miltos Pavlou

Miltos Pavlou Social Networks:  
Website: http://www.miltospavlou.art/  
Facebook: / miltospavlou  
Instagram: / @miltospavlou  
TikTok: / miltos_pavlou  

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/MiltosPavlou

Credits:  
Music & Lyrics: Miltos Pavlou  
Vocals: Miltos Pavlou and Amalia Pavlou (on *Altāria* and *Παιδιά του Κόσμου* / Children of the World)  
Production: Miltos Pavlou – Sergios Voudris – Odysseas Tziritas  
Arrangements: Sergios Voudris – Odysseas Tziritas  
Musical Performance: Sergios Voudris – Odysseas Tziritas – Miltos Pavlou  
Mix & Mastering: Stavros Georgiopoulos @ Diskex Studio  
Voice Recordings: Studio Altāria, Vienna  
Artwork & Photography: Miltos Pavlou

* Miltos Pavlou’s artistic activity is non-profit. Any possible income generated is donated to organisations supporting human rights and socially excluded groups in Greece and around the world.

BIO  
Miltos Pavlou was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is a researcher and writer on human rights, with studies in Sociology (Italy) and Law (Thessaloniki). He currently serves at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Alongside his main professional career, he composes and creates songs in Greek, English and Italian about love, journey, places, people, and everything that is worth preserving and gives meaning to life.

Listen to Altāria:  
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4crLiNT  
iTunes / Apple Music: https://apple.co/4u0z58H  
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/album/963185741  
YouTube: https://bit.ly/ΜίλτοςΠαύλου-Altāria

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Contact:
Protasis Music / Protasis Music Publishing  
Tel: +30 210 3608040  
Mobile: +30 6977402024  
Email: [email protected]  
www.protasismusic.gr