{"id":704,"date":"2026-01-21T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:34:24","slug":"matala-the-story-of-neferiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"MATALA \u2013 THE STORY OF NEFERIANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;705&#8243; img_size=&#8221;FULL&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;img_link_large&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Sometime in early 2017, The Rocking\u2019 Dead met with writer Manolis Daloukas who at the time was writing his new book and was preparing an art &amp; music side project that would be linked to it.\u00a0Both sides were very keen to cooperate and so\u2026 after reading a draft version of the book, the song \u201c<strong>Wild Horses Neigh<\/strong>\u201d was written, the music and lyrics of which were inspired from \u201c<strong>Matala \u2013 The story of Neferiana<\/strong>\u201c!<\/p>\n<p>The acoustic \/ stripped down version of \u201cWild Horses Neigh\u201d was exclusively recorded for Manolis and his book. The recording took place in mid September 2017 at studio\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diagogikosmiastudio\/\">\u201c\u0394\u03b9\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03b3\u03ae \u039a\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with sound engineer Manolis Koutsakis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the book<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatala\u201d is a love story based on true events set in the 70\u2019s and the flower children era, in Crete. It tells the story of Alexia, a young girl that runs away from home and becomes a hippie! The book is available in bookstores as of June 15th 2018!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.gr\/product\/matala\/prod9120097pp\/\">Get the book Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the Author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manolis Daloukas is an esteemed journalist and an analyst of the Greek youth culture. He is a Surveying Engineer, graduate of the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a reporter since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of many books, his most notable work being the book entitled \u201cElliniko \u03a1\u03bf\u03ba\u201d meaning \u201cGreek Rock\u201d that recounts the history of rock music in Greece during the period 1945 to 1990.<\/p>\n<p>His personal Blog:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomgreece.blogspot.com\/\">\u0399\u03a3\u03a4\u039f\u03a1\u0399\u0391 \u03a4\u0397\u03a3 \u0395\u039b\u039b\u0397\u039d\u0399\u039a\u0397\u03a3 \u039d\u0395\u039f\u039b\u0391\u0399\u0391\u03a3<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CG4zsYr6rf4&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;705&#8243; img_size=&#8221;FULL&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;img_link_large&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Sometime in early 2017, The Rocking\u2019 Dead met with writer Manolis Daloukas who at the time was writing his new book and was preparing an art &amp; music side project that would be linked to it.\u00a0Both sides were very keen to cooperate and so\u2026 after reading a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockindead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}