''Re!'' is the name of a

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album by singer

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released in

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and

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on December 24, 1994. It was recorded in

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at Whitfield Street Recording Studios and released by Sony Music Greece.''Re!''

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(1994). Athens, Greece: Sony Music Entertainment Greece. It is the most acoustic album Vissi has released up to date. It was repackaged in 1995 to include the songs " Amin", "Eleni" and a remix of "

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". Music and lyrics are by

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and Evi Droutsa.

Release

''Re!'' was originally released on December 24, 1994, featuring ten songs. In early to mid 1995, the album was re-released to include the songs " Amin" and "Eleni" and a remix of "

", reaching sales to

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status, with more than 40,000 units sold. The lyrics of the bonus tracks, though, were not included in the album's liner notes and overall no significant change was made in the original artwork. In 1999, a

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artist

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covered the single "Eleni" with the Turkish lyrics as "Sevdim" (I loved), which met moderate success, while radio stations also picked up the original version by Anna Vissi.

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then decided upon the release of ''Re!'' in

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. The album reached 2× Platinum in Turkey. The singles "Eimai Poli Kala", "Re!", "Amin" and "Eleni" were released on accompanying promotional videos during 1994 and 1995, all of which aired in local

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. "Eimai Poli Kala", directed by Nikos Soulis, was especially acclaimed at the time for the use of CGI graphics, applied on real-life locations around the city of

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, a relatively unknown technology for the Greek market. In 2001, "Eimai Poli Kala" and "Eleni" were selected for digital release on Vissi's '' The Video Collection''. In 2019, the album was selected for inclusion in the Panik Gold box set ''The Legendary Recordings 1982-2019''. The release came after Panik's acquisition rights of Vissi's back catalogue from her previous record company Sony Music Greece. This box set was printed on a limited edition of 500 copies containing CD releases of all of her albums from 1982 to 2019 plus unreleased material.

Track listing

;Original 1994 LP, MC and CD release # "Re!" (Hey you!) # "30 Kai Vale" (Thirty something) # "

" (I'm very well) # "Paragrafos 62" (Paragraph 62) # "To Allo Mou Ego" (My other self) # "I Varka" (The boat) # "Melanholies" (Melancholies) # "Diadilosi" (The protest) # "Efta Zoes" (Seven lives) # "Palio Periodiko" (Old magazine) #"Amin" (Amen) #"Eleni" (Helen) #"Ime Poli Kala (Dance Mix)" (I'm very well (Dance Mix)) ;1995 Re-release (Only on LP, MC and CD) # "Re!" (Hey you!) # "30 Kai Vale" (Thirty something) # "

" (I'm very well) # "Paragrafos 62" (Paragraph 62) # "To Allo Mou Ego" (My other self) # "I Varka" (The boat) # "Melanholies" (Melancholies) # "Diadilosi" (The protest) # "Efta Zoes" (Seven lives) # "Periodiko" (Magazine) # " Amin" (Amen) # "Eleni" (Helen) # "Ime Poli Kala (Dance Mix)" (I'm very well (Dance Mix)) ;Turkish Release # "Eleni" # "Amin" # "Re!" # "30 Kai Vale" # "

" # "Paragrafos 62" # "To Allo Mou Ego" # "I Varka" # "Melanholies" # "Diadilosi" # "Efta Zoes" # "Periodiko"

Singles

The following songs were released as singles from the album and were accompanied by

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s. # "Re!" # "

" # " Amin # "Eleni"

Credits and personnel

;Personnel *Agapitos - bouzouki on track “Eleni” *Nikos Chatzopoulos - violin *Evi Droutsa - lyrics *

- music, lyrics, keyboards, guitar on the track “I Varka” *Alexis Mpoulgourtzis - percussions (darbhuka, bendir, tambhit, bongus, conga, triangle, cymbals) *Sakis Pilatos - bass on track “Eleni” *Panagiotis Stergiou - acoustic guitars, üti, bouzouki, tzouras, baglamas, acoustic bass *

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- guitars on track “Paragrafos 62” *

- vocals ;Production *

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- production management, arrangements, instrumentation *Martyn ‘Max’ Heyes - recording engineering at Whitfield Street Recording Studios (London) *U.B.A. - preproduction at Studio Hampstead * Jason Westbrook - assistant recording engineer ;Design *Brian Aris - photos *Michael Charalambous - hair styling from Neville & Daniel Knightsbridge *Yiannis Doxas - cover design *Sheryll Phelps Gardener - make up artist Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

References

{{Authority control Anna Vissi albums 1994 albums Greek-language albums Sony Music Greece albums Albums produced by Nikos Karvelas