DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

New single by

Miltos Pavlou

Miltos Pavlou and Protasis Music present Miltos Pavlou’s new single Do not go gentle into that good night.

One of the best-known poems in English-language literature becomes a song. Dylan Thomas’s stirring elegy on resistance to death and decay is set to music as an anthem to fortitude and to stubborn defiance of mortality. It speaks of the ambiguous and fleeting human condition, and of taking stock of life and its struggles in the face of losing loved ones. It was written in a difficult time of unbearable deaths, of personal as well as collective losses.

With music by Miltos Pavlou set to the poem by Dylan Thomas, he himself performs “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, with arrangement and music performance by Odysseas Tziritas, with whom he also shares the production.

Credits
Music – vocals: Miltos Pavlou
Lyrics: Dylan Thomas, poem “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Production: Miltos Pavlou – Odysseas Tziritas
Arrangement – music performance: Odysseas Tziritas
Mix – Mastering: Stavros Georgiopoulos @ Diskex Studio
Vocal recordings: Studio Altāria, Vienna
Cover art: Miltos Pavlou

Lyrics
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

BIO
Miltos Pavlou

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

* Miltos Pavlou’s artistic activity is not for profit, and any income from it is intended for donations to organisations that support human rights and socially excluded groups in Greece and around the world.

Miltos Pavlou on social media

Website: http://www.miltospavlou.art/
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Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/MiltosPavlou

Release links
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qqahqKbi2Vg