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MELODIC CHRISTMAS-A CHRISTMAS ALBUM FROM ANDREAS!
Melodic Christmas, the first instrumental Christmas album by Andreas is
released today, 10 December 2007. The album is available exclusively as a
digital download at www.melodicwinds.com/songs until 10 January 2008. It is
not going to be released in CD form, it is only available as a digital
donwload.

The 12 album songs include 8 well-known Christmas songs, 2 classical songs
and 2 traditional Greek Christmas Carols. Each song costs $0.99 and you get
a high quality 192 Kbps mp3 prepeared by Andreas. You can listen to the
whole song at high quality-if you have a DSL connection-or low quality if
you have a dial-up connection.

1. Halleluiah
2. Silent Night
3. Moraitika Carols
4. Angels from the Realms of Glory
5. White Christmas
6. We Three Kings
7. Angel's World
8. Fum Fum Fum
9. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
10. Jingle Bells
11. Deck The Halls with Boughs of Holly
12. Kefalonitika Carols

Merry Christmas to all with these wonderful songs arranged and perfromed by Andreas!
SUMMER DREAMS CD-THE NEW ANDREAS ALBUM: COMING ON 14 JANUARY 2008!
Summer Dreams, the new Andreas album is going to be released on 14 January 2008! The new album has 12 brand new instrumental pieces.

Andreas is currently checking the final mixing and mastering for all songs and prepares with his collaborators the choir recording for one song (Prayer under the Stars) and the album sleeve.

To see the front cover and see photos from the recording sessions please visit the special Andreas Online section at:

http://www.andreasonline.com/summerdreams.html

SUMMER DREAMS TRACKLIST AND COLLABORATORS
1. Summer Dreams
2. The Full Moon of August
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
3. Under the Sun
Guitar: Miltos Hatzikalfas
Electric Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
4. Sea of Flags
5. Watching the Sunset with You
Clarinet: Barbara Venetikidou
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
6. Beach Bar
7. Samos
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
Guitar: Theoharis Seremetidis
8. Night Sky
Clarinet: Barbara Venetikidou
Guitar: Theoharis Seremetidis
9. Seaside Kiss
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
10. Prayer Under The Stars
SS Cyrill and Methodios choir directed by Maria Meligopoulou
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
11. Signs of Love
Guitar: Theoharis Seremetidis
12. Souvenirs of Summer
Piano: Panagiotis Pavlidis
THE NEW EDITION OF MELODIC WINDS: COMING ON 20 MAY 2008!
Andreas is happy to announce that he is currently re-recording his debut album Melodic Winds, with 20 May 2008 being the release date!

The new edition will feature all the original pieces with tasteful changes to the arrangements and no changes on the melodies. However, almost all of the sounds will be brand new and clearly superior to the originals (with only a few of the original sounds preserved), while the sound quality of the recordings will be much better than the original.

For more on the progress of the recording and the original release of Melodic Winds please go to the special Andreas Online section at:

http://www.andreasonline.com/melodicwinds.html
ANDREAS WRITES MUSIC FOR THE ATHENS PLANETARIUM
Andreas is currently writing the music for an October 2008 show of the Digital Planetarium of the Eugenides Foundation in Athens, Greece: http://www.eugenfound.edu.gr/

The 40-minute show is called "Wonders of the Universe" and will draw an audience of 200,000 in the period October 2008-October 2010.
ANDREAS FINALIST IN 3 MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITIONS WITH SIFNOS
Andreas has won the title "Best Greek Composition" in the prestigious "Musicaid International Music Awards 2006" with "Sifnos" and "Heart Full of Love" from "When The Sea Remembers" CD! Go to http://www.musicaid.org/awards.htm to see the list of winners.

Andreas is also one of the 5 finalists of the prestigious 2006 Independent Music Awards in the "New Age" category:

http://www.musiciansatlas.com/pages/ima_finalists_song.asp

and one of the 20 finalists of the prestigious 2005 Unisong International Songwriting Contest in the "Instrumental" category:

http://www.unisong.com/Winners.aspx

Both finalist positions were earned with the song "Sifnos" from his latest album "When The Sea Remembers".
SIGNS OF LOVE IN THE "AMERICAN HEROES" CD
Andreas is one of the 20 artists of the CD "American Heroes". The song "Signs of Love" from Andreas forthcoming release "Summer Dreams" was chosen.

Go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/3pointrecords
in order to listen to the song and buy the CD.

Alternatively, you can go to Napster and buy just "Signs of Love":
http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12387813
ANDREAS IN THE "UNSIGNED" MUSIC MAGAZINE
A rave review about Andreas and the album "When The Sea Remembers" appeared in the November 2006 issue of the major indie music magazine "Unsigned"! Go to:

http://www.unsignedmusicmag.com/reviews.html

and then click on the link "Read full review"
ANDREAS IN THE SONGSALIVE CD SAMPLER 8
The song "Heart Full of Love" from Andreas latest album "When The Sea Remembers" was selected for the Songsalive! CD Sampler 8

http://www.songsalive.org/cdsampler8.html

which is exhibited to various music conferences in USA and Australia. With the same song Andreas was a semi-finalist of the 2005 UK Songwriting Competition.
SONICBIDS AND TAXI FORWARDINGS
Many of Andreas songs were selected among lots of contestants and forwarded by TAXI and Sonicbids-both the leading websites for independent musicians-to music, film and TV music libraries for future use.

"On The Beach" was included in the 2005 Musselman Triathlon Festival Compilation CD and in the 2006 Timberman Triathlon Compilation CD that were given to 1000 and 2200 athletes and volunteers respectively.

Also, "Heart Full of Love" has been selected for BandRadio Live while "The Moment of Victory", "Shooting Stars", "On The Beach", "Song for the Children" and "Full Moon Reflections" have been selected by Acoustic Fuel Radio.