Manos Phi · Debut Single
Dangerously Awake
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The song
We all pretend. To ourselves, to each other, to the people we love. We arrange our faces. We perform our lives. And somewhere along the way, the pretending becomes so total that the only place left for anything honest is the dreams we have when we sleep.
Dangerously Awake is about the moment you wake up from one of those dreams. The liminal space between asleep and awake, where for a few seconds you can still feel what was real — and you fight, with everything, to stay there.
In the end, it's good that we can't stay. Truth belongs in the awake world too. We don't have to hide.
FOLLOW THE JOURNEY
What a show!
The bridge of Dangerously Awake, lifted by the Edinburgh Gay Men's Chorus and an absolutely incredible audience at the Cirque Royal in Brussels for the Treachery of Images concert at Various Voices 2026!
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Months of work in a few beautiful minutes.
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CREDITS
WRITTEN BY
Manos Phi
PRODUCED BY
Nikos Vogiatzakis - Mad Hat Music, Manos Phi
MIXED BY
Nikos Vogiatzakis - Mad Hat Music
MASTERED BY
Panos Bothos
LEAD VOCAL & PIANO
Manos Phi
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Mad Hat Music, Banana Row Studio
CELLO
Sophia Efkleidou
DRUMS
Vasilis Giaslakiotis
VOCAL COACHING
Dr Kathleen Cronie
RECORDED AT
Mad Hat Music, Banana Row Studio
CHOIR
Choir arrangements by: Manos Phi, James Wilkinson
Choir conductor: James Wilkinson
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Mabon Elis
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Mark O'Connor
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Nicholas Clark
TENOR 1
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Andrew Main
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Charlie Watherston
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Joe Scotchman
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Roderick Campbell
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Steven Murphy
TENOR 2
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David Traynor
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Hugh Robertson
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Matthew Tse
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Michael Elliott
BARITONE
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David McConchie
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John Ovens
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Simon Wallis
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Thomas Close
BASS
Waken or Aether
Dangerously Awake lives in the worlds between worlds. Between the Waken and the Aether. What is real can be relative and what we live can be untrue.
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Watch a video developed by Manos Phi (with use of AI) bringing to life the distracting saturation of Waken and the calm, subtle flow of the Aether world.
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