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Interview

Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes

Read "Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Savina Yannatou flies through vast reaches of space and time as she works, like the swallows and warblers who traverse the Sahara, stopping in jny: Greece on their annual pilgrimage to breeding grounds in the North, thousands of miles away. She is an artist “beyond category," to borrow Duke Ellington's phrase, whose programs and performances combine Mediterranean songs with sources as disparate as Early Music and free jazz. The sounds she creates are her own, kaleidoscopic yet distinctive. Over the ...

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Album Review

Savina Yannatou / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez / Floros Floridis: Kouarteto

Read "Kouarteto" reviewed by John Sharpe


Four seasoned improvisers unite to telling effect on Kouartéto. Their pedigrees go back a long way. Greek vocalist Savina Yannatou, English bassist Barry Guy and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez have been colleagues in Guy's Blue Shroud Band for the past 14 years, though Attikos (Maya, 2010) documenting bassist and singer in tandem at Amsterdam's esteemed Bimhuis predates that. Clarinetist Floros Floridis' association with the singer stretches back further still, not surprising as he has been at the forefront of the ...

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Album Review

Savina Yannatou / Julius Gabriel / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: In The Light Of The Current Myth

Read "In The Light Of The Current Myth" reviewed by John Sharpe


Although this is the first release by the quintet of saxophonist Julius Gabriel, pianist Agustí Fernández, drummer Ramon López, bassist Barry Guy and vocalist Savina Yannatou, all five have been members of Guy's Blue Shroud Band since its inception in 2014. As such they are well versed in each other's capabilities and predilections, having taken part in countless improv sessions together in a variety of combinations. Consequently there is an ease and trust that permeates the fast mutating kaleidoscope of ...

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Album Review

Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: all this this here

Read "all this this here" reviewed by John Sharpe


Bassist and composer Barry Guy combines a number of his passions on All This This Here in a stunning act of synthesis. For the third major work for his Blue Shroud Band, following its eponymous debut (Intakt, 2016) and Odes And Meditations For Cecil Taylor (Not Two, 2018), Guy sets to music Nobel winning playwright Samuel Beckett's last poem What Is The Word (in two versions, both the original French and the English translation, which bookend the program).

Album Review

Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico: Songs of Thessaloniki

Read "Songs of Thessaloniki" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Cinquantasei anni, ateniese, Savina Yannatou è dall'inizio degli anni Ottanta una presenza di indiscusso spessore nell'universo vocale ellenico, ormai da un ventennio in stretto sodalizio con l'ensemble strumentale Primavera en Salonico, nel caso specifico di questo album un sestetto, con cui la cantante illustra e attraversa le varie radici ed entità etno-musicali di cui la città--appunto--di Salonicco (l'antica Tessalonica) fa storicamente incetta: ovviamente greca, ma anche ebreo-sefardita, turca, bulgara, armena, slava nelle sue varie declinazioni, persino irlandese (in un brano, ...

Album Review

Günter Baby Sommer - Savina Yannatou - Floros Floridis - Evgenios Voulgaris - Spilios Kastanis: Songs for Kommeno

Read "Songs for Kommeno" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Günter “Baby" Sommer rimase impietrito alla scoperta della strage avvenuta nel villaggio greco di Kommeno, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Invitato nel 2008 a un festival di percussioni nel villaggio dell'Epiro, aveva letto durante la notte un libro che ricostruiva quei momenti atroci, in cui i militari della Wehrmacht avevano trucidato 317 persone senza pietà: donne, uomini, bambini, anche neonati. Il primo impulso disperato di fronte a tale peso fu quello di tornare in Germania il giorno successivo, senza suonare ...

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Album Review

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs of an Other

Read "Songs of an Other" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Savina Yannatou fa viaggiare la sua voce nel tempo e nello spazio. L'ascolti in Armenia sulle tracce di un amore finito ("Sareri hovin mernem"). Ma anche tra la Macedonia e la Bulgaria nella confessione ad una madre ("Za lioubih maimo tri momi") o nella sua Grecia dei racconti mitologici ("O Yannis kai o drago") o ancora nell'Italia rurale del Sud ("Addio amore"). Songs of an Other è stato registrato ad Atene nell'ottobre del 2007 ed è il terzo CD per ...


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