Livan
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Think American pop stars have had to overcome adversity? Theyve got nothing on the UK artist known throughout Europe and in the UK as LIVAN (pronounced Lie'van). The energetic electro-rocker is the grandson of the last popularly-elected prime minister of Greece before the coup that delivered the countrys government into the hands of a right-wing military junta. LIVANs early life was one of exile, resistance, and ostracism: not from his schoolmates or from his parents, but from his entire nation. These experiences inform all of the music he writes the dark edge on the Happy Returns full-length comes not from the artists imaginings, but from his own misfortunes. LIVAN has survived his own personal turmoil, and matured into a sharp, witty songwriter with plenty to say.
As articulate as he is, and clever as he can be, he never forgets hes a rocker first. LIVAN has developed a provocative sound reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails and the tougher side of Bowie but as this fiercely-independent auteur is indebted to nobody but himself, consider those comparisons as points of reference only. Happy Returns, his latest single, is a tale of psychic destabilization and loss of control, and LIVAN performs it with rare energy, commitment, and abandon that makes the content utterly believable. And even as he sings of his own deteriorating mental state, his astute political consciousness seeps into the lyric (the sardonic King Of The World, another standout cut on Happy Returns, is a much more explicit elaboration of the singers trenchant worldview).
Biography
Profile Views: 484
Think American pop stars have had to overcome adversity? Theyve got nothing on the UK artist known throughout Europe and in the UK as LIVAN (pronounced Lie'van). The energetic electro-rocker is the grandson of the last popularly-elected prime minister of Greece before the coup that delivered the countrys government into the hands of a right-wing military junta. LIVANs early life was one of exile, resistance, and ostracism: not from his schoolmates or from his parents, but from his entire nation. These experiences inform all of the music he writes the dark edge on the Happy Returns full-length comes not from the artists imaginings, but from his own misfortunes. LIVAN has survived his own personal turmoil, and matured into a sharp, witty songwriter with plenty to say.
As articulate as he is, and clever as he can be, he never forgets hes a rocker first. LIVAN has developed a provocative sound reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails and the tougher side of Bowie but as this fiercely-independent auteur is indebted to nobody but himself, consider those comparisons as points of reference only. Happy Returns, his latest single, is a tale of psychic destabilization and loss of control, and LIVAN performs it with rare energy, commitment, and abandon that makes the content utterly believable. And even as he sings of his own deteriorating mental state, his astute political consciousness seeps into the lyric (the sardonic King Of The World, another standout cut on Happy Returns, is a much more explicit elaboration of the singers trenchant worldview).
As articulate as he is, and clever as he can be, he never forgets hes a rocker first. LIVAN has developed a provocative sound reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails and the tougher side of Bowie but as this fiercely-independent auteur is indebted to nobody but himself, consider those comparisons as points of reference only. Happy Returns, his latest single, is a tale of psychic destabilization and loss of control, and LIVAN performs it with rare energy, commitment, and abandon that makes the content utterly believable. And even as he sings of his own deteriorating mental state, his astute political consciousness seeps into the lyric (the sardonic King Of The World, another standout cut on Happy Returns, is a much more explicit elaboration of the singers trenchant worldview).
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