Savvato (Greek: Σάββατο; English: Saturday) is the eighth studio album of the Greek singer Giorgos Mazonakis. It was released on 3 December 2003 by Heaven Music and became gold very soon, but after two months certified platinum, selling over 50,000 units. The album was written entirely by Phoebus who also produced it, and was his second collaboration with Phoebus after the 2 singles on Kita Me + Beat in 2002.
Track listing
Singles The following singles were officially released to radio stations and gained a lot of airplay:
"To Gucci Forema" "Savvato" "Foveri" "Efiges" "Tesseris"
Credits Credits adapted from liner notes.
Personnel
Christina Argyri – backing vocals (2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11) Hakan Bingolou – oud (3) | säz (3, 10) Yiannis Bithikotsis – bouzouki, cura (2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13) | baglama (2, 5, 9, 13) Giorgos Chatzopoulos – guitars (2, 5, 11) Akis Diximos – backing vocals (7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) Nektarios Georgiadis – backing vocals (3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11) Antonis Gounaris – guitars (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) | cümbüş (7, 10) | backing vocals (3) Anna Ioannidou – backing vocals (2, 5) Paola Komini – backing vocals (2, 5) Tryfon Koutsourelis – orchestration, programming (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) | keyboards (all tracks) Phedon Lionoudakis – accordion (2, 5, 9, 12, 13) Alex Panayi – backing vocals (3, 4, 7, 8) Phoebus – orchestration (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11) | programming, keyboards (1, 4, 6, 8) | backing vocals (3, 14) Giorgos Roilos – percussion (3, 8) Vaggelis Siapatis – backing vocals (3, 14) Giorgos Stabolis – backing vocals (3, 14) Thanasis Vasilopoulos – clarinet (3) Nikos Zervas – strings, flute (8) Martha Zioga – backing vocals (2, 4, 7, 8, 11)
Production
Al Giga – styling Alex – grooming Jonathan Glynn-Smith – photographer Giorgos Lyberopoulos – engineer's assistant Yiannis Nikolopoulos – engineer's assistant Akis Pashalakis – engineer's assistant Phoebus – executive producer Panayiotis Petronikolos – engineer, mix Panos Pitsilidis – art direction Vaggelis Siapatis – engineer, editing Giorgos Stabolis – production manager
Charts Savvato made its debut at number 2 on the 'Greece Top 50 Singles' charts and remained for 46 weeks.https://web.archive.org/web/20041127042054/http://www.ifpi.gr/chart05.htm
After two months, it was certified platinum by IFPI. ChartProviderPeak positionCertificationGreek Singles ChartIFPI2Platinum
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