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Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes
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 ...
Continue ReadingSavina Yannatou / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez / Floros Floridis: Kouarteto
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 ...
Continue ReadingSavina Yannatou / Julius Gabriel / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: In The Light Of The Current Myth
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 ...
Continue ReadingBarry Guy Blue Shroud Band: all this this here
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).
Continue ReadingSavina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico: Songs of Thessaloniki
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, ...
Continue ReadingSavina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs Of An Other
by Budd Kopman
The mesmerizing Songs Of An Other is the second ECM studio recording for vocalist Savina Yannatou and the instrumental group Pimavera en Salonico. Their first ECM release, Terra Nostra (2003), was live and not actually recorded, but licensed by ECM, which led to their first studio ECM recording, Sumiglia (2005).Pimavera en Salonico has been together for fifteen years with basically the same members, and creates arrangements of traditional or folk music from lands in a great arc from ...
Continue ReadingSavina Yannatou: Sumiglia
by John Kelman
With her international début, Terra Nostra (ECM, '03), Greek singer Savina Yannatou and her group Primavera en Salonico continued a musical philosophy beginning with a series of Greek releases in '95 with the self-titled Spring in Salonica. Mining traditional music largely from the Mediterranean area, but in some cases stretching as far abroad as Scotland and the Caribbean, Yannatou demonstrates how seemingly diverse ethnic styles are ultimately and inextricably linked. The subject of how musical concepts which began in the ...
Continue ReadingStellar Greek Vocalist Savina Yannatou to tour in the US following release of new CD on ECM
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All About Jazz
On Thursday, March 3rd Yannatou will perform in New York City at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater.
Sumiglia, a new CD by the stellar Greek vocalist Savina Yannatou will be released on ECM on March 1st.
As on her first ECM CD, Terra Nostra, Savina traverses the globe singing in 11 different languages and finding the perfect voice for each song.
“Yannatou’s versatility is little short of astonishing as she adapts her voice –- sweet and childlike in some ...
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