Travma

Travma
Studio album by Anna Vissi
Released April 16, 1997
Label Sony Music Greece/Columbia
Producer Nikos Karvelas
Anna Vissi chronology
Klima Tropiko
(1996)		 Travma
(1997)		 Antidoto
(1998)

Travma is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released in Greece and Cyprus on April 14, 1997. In Greece it became Gold within 12 days and 3x Platinum within 6 months, becaming one of the most commercially successful albums of the Greek 1990s.[1][2] The album also includes a duet with fellow Greek pop star Sakis Rouvas.

Australian Edition

Trauma was released in Australia with English-language artwork and packaging in mid-1997, to help promote the Australian leg of the Trauma tour and her recent English-language single debut for "Forgive Me This".[3] The album was released in a special tour edition featuring a bonus disc with five songs from previous albums. Vissi promoted the album and tour by participating in a high-profile media campaign including press, radio, national television interviews, and in-store signings.[3]

Music

Music and lyrics are by Nikos Karvelas and Natalia Germanou (4, 5, 10).

Track listing

  1. "Travma" (Trauma)
  2. "Eki" (There)
  3. "Ntrepome" (I'm ashamed)
  4. "Siga!" (Slowly!)
  5. "Na' Se Kala" (Be well)
  6. "To Katalaves?" (Got it?)
  7. "Me Niazi" (I do care)
  8. "Mavra Gialia" (Black sunglasses)
  9. "Eprepe" (I should have)
  10. "Apolito Keno" (Absolute emptiness)
  11. "To Megalitero Soukse" (The biggest hit)
  12. "Thanatos Ine I Agapi" (Death is love)
  13. "Me Halai" (It spoils me)
  14. "Se Thelo, Me Thelis" (Duet with Sakis Rouvas) (I want you, you want me)
  15. "Se Thimame" (I remember you)

Singles

  1. "Travma"
  2. "Mavra Gialia"
  3. "Na' Se Kala"

Australian Release

Disc 1

  1. "Travma"
  2. "Eki"
  3. "Ntrepome"
  4. "Siga"
  5. "Na' Se Kala"
  6. "To Katalaves?"
  7. "Me Niazi"
  8. "Mavra Gialia"
  9. "Eprepe"
  10. "Apolito Keno"
  11. "To Megalitero Soukse"
  12. "Thanatos Ine I Agapi"
  13. "Me Halai"
  14. "Se Thelo, Me Thelis" (Duet with Sakis Rouvas)
  15. "Se Thimame"

Disc 2 [Bonus]

  1. "Sentonia" (from the album Klima Tropiko)
  2. "Trelenome" (from the album Klima Tropiko)
  3. "Amin" (from the album Re!)
  4. "Dodeka" (from the album Kati Simveni)
  5. "Lambo" (from the album Lambo)

Credits and personnel

Personnel
  • Christina Anagnostopoulou - backing vocals
  • Joey Balin - guitar, keyboards on tracks 8, 12
  • Nikos Chatzopoulos - violin
  • Achileas Diamantis - guitar on track 12
  • Vassilis Eleftheropoulos - backing vocals
  • Natalia Germanou - lyrics, backing vocals
  • Spyros Glenis - percussions
  • Nikos Karvelas - music, lyrics, acoustic guitar, backing
  • Charalambos Kemanetzidis - keyboards
  • Dimitris Koliakoudakis - classic guitar
  • Konstantinos - backing vocals
  • Takis Kouvatseas - drums
  • Yiannis Lionakis - guitars, bouzouki, lute, tzouras, baglamas, üti
  • Kostas Miliotakis - keyboards
  • Andreas Mouzakis - percussion on track 12
  • Vassilis Nikolopoulos - keyboard, programming on track 12
  • Christos Olympios - tzouras
  • Alexandros Paraskevopoulos - bass on tracks 8, 12
  • Sakis Rouvas - vocals
  • Panagiotis Stergiou - tzouras, baglamas, üti on tracks 10, 15
  • Giorgos Tsolakos - keyboards
  • Nikos Vardis - bass
  • Thanasis Vasilopoulos - clarinet
  • Anna Vissi - vocals, backing vocals
Production
  • Nikos Karvelas - production management, arrangements, instrumentation, instrument playing
  • Joey Balin - production management, arrangements, instrumentation, programming on tracks 8, 12
  • Charalambos Kemanetzidis - arrangements, instrumentation on tracks 7, 9, 10
  • Tasos Bakasietas - recording engineering on tracks 8, 12
  • Ronald Prent - recording engineering on tracks 8, 12
  • Giorgos Ragkos - recording engineering, mixing at Kiriazis Studios
  • Yiannis Ioannidis - digital mastering at Digital Press Hellas
  • Petros Siakavelas - digital mastering at D.P.H.
Design
  • Tasos Vrettos - photos
  • Yiannis Angelakis - make up
  • Stephanos Vasilakis - hair styling
  • Anna Vissi - styling
  • Antonis Glykos - artwork
  • Apostolos Michalis - photoshop
  • Efi Karampesini - photoshop
  • Michalis Orfanos - cover printing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[4]

Charts

Chart Providers Peak
Position		 Certification
Greek Albums Chart IFPI 1 3x Platinum
Cypriot Albums Chart All Records Top 20 1 3x Platinum
Official Australian Album Charts ARIA Album Charts 73 -

References

  1. ↑ ΑΝΝΑ ΒΙΣΣΗ - ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ (in Greek). Sony Music Greece. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ Staff. "Anna Vissi". Maple Jam Music Group. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Inc., Nielsen Business Media,; Develegas, Cosmas (1997-09-06). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 69–. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Travma (LP, MC, CD). Anna Vissi. Sony Music. 1997.
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