666 is Aphrodite's Child most known and appreciated album — rightfully — but I feel like people are sleeping on their debut album "End Of The World", which is a gem of psychedelic music.

The record was published in 1968 and it's a mix of folklore and innovation. As Vangelis once mentioned in an interview at the time, the band was profoundly influenced by Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the intent was to recreate psychedelic sounds which also included themes of greek folklore as well. You may notice how the guitar is barely present throughout the album — it was due to the absence of the band's guitarist Silver Koulouris, who was forced to join the military services right before leaving Greece.

The album addresses different topics — most of them were still considered taboos as the time — such as depression, mental illness and pollution. I'm not going to analyse every single song, but I'd like to talk about the album's highlights imo :)

End Of The World has often been described as "the acceptance of the end". The lyrics are about a man who asks his lover to join him to the end of the world, which is inevitable. However, he is aware that he'll go by himself eventually, dying alone. The heart of the song to me is in Vangelis' dramatic piano solo at the end of the chorus, which almost seems to announce the incoming catastrophe.

The Grass Is No Green has to be one of the first songs to be so outspoken about the problem of pollution. It has numerous psychedelic elements, starting from the mysterious intro, going right through the confusing effects used on Demis Roussos' voice in the middle of the song, which starts accelerating its tempo until it reaches its climax at the end.

You Always Stand In My Way is the heaviest song on the album, speaking of both music and lyrics. Despite the lack of guitar here, Vangelis' synths and Demis' rough singing take the song on another level, making it exceptionally heavy at the time! I mean I wasn't expecting THAT when I first heard this song.

And my personal favourite, Day Of The Fool, is the most peculiar song. It deals with mental illness and tells the story of a 30 year old man named Benji, who's often treated like a child and ostracized by his peers. On his birthday though, he thinks that people will be nice to him for once, which of course did not happen. The man also mentions his friend Candy, who according to him "knows what's up with his mind" and "sees what he sees, she makes him happy" (not sure if the friend he describes is an actual friend or an imaginary one, though).

if u mean like. a specific filter that i use on all my art no i do not however !!!!! i always slap a bunch of overlay layers over my art at the end just to adjust the colours, especially to match the lighting of the background more since i always fix the bg last orz

one of the overlay layers is usually pink/orange just to make the colours a little warmer, and another will have a gradient (lighter colour in the top/centre of the canvas, darker on the bottom/around the edges) .. idk i just play around with overlays and other layer modes until i’m satisfied :))

aaaaand here’s some examples of with (left) and without (right) the overlays so u can see the changes