THE ART OF DÉMIS ROUSSOS AND APHRODITE'S CHILD

This compilation was given to me as a gift from a friend who recently came back from a long travel through europe. It has no real surprises. It includes the five hit singles recorded by Demis Roussos former band Aphrodite´s Child and seven of his own solo career. As expected it includes no tracks from AC´s revolutionary (and mostly unlistenable) 666 album. While I must point out that I like those songs very much, specially Roussos unique voice, I found the CD to be quite weak, since it has only the obvious hits and nothing new. It gives no perspective of how important Aphrodite´s Child was as band and has not enough songs to do justice to Roussos as a solo performer (where is Velvet Mornings? just to mention one).

If you happen to find only this album on the store and you just want to hear AC´s pop hits and some of Roussos most famous stuff then this CD may suit you. Otherwise there are better compilations of both AC and Roussous.

Rating: two stars, because of the fine tunes included.