Lena Platonos

[5] There followed three personal records which determined her mark on Greek electronic music and constituted a point of reference for future attempts: Sun Masks (1984), Gallop (1985), and Lepidoptera (1986).

Her verses, usually surrealistic in their expression, are nevertheless direct and touch on themes of daily routine and personal relationships, especially love and alienation, and are distinguished by their tenderness and at other times childlike innocence.

In 1990 Platonos cooperated with Dionysis Savvopoulos in live appearances and on the record Retrospection '63-'89 and in 1991 with Dimitra Galani on Myths of Europe, arranging songs of John Lennon, Kurt Weill among others.

At the same time the collection Lena Platonos’ Blender came out with arrangements of her songs by well-known artists on the Greek electronic scene (Coti K, Constantinos Veta, Michalis Delta, ΙΟΝ, etc.

On 28 July 2008 at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus there was a retrospective concert for her work, where, apart from herself, Elli Paspalas, Martha Phridzilas, Constantinos Veta, and Yiannis Palamidas and Vassilikos (from Raining Pleasure) participated.

[11] In October 2014 Lena Platonos set to music selected poems by George Chronas on the record Sacred Pain, with the participation of Pantelis Theocharidis and Melina Kanas.

Songs like ‘Bloody Shadows from Afar’, ‘Witches’, and ‘Ruby Liqueur’ were heard from sets of Boiler Room and Beats in Space as far as Paris catwalks as soundtracks for fashion shows of the renowned house of Dior.

[14] The same year, Lena Platonos in her concert at the Onassis STEGI presented for the first time a cycle of songs in English with the title Hope is the thing with feathers.

The song cycle was based on poetry by Emily Dickinson, and included the participation of Sissi Rada and Athina Routsi as singers, and Karyophyllia Karambeti as narrator, while the orchestration was by Lena Platonos and Sterios Tsirliagos.