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| 22 June 2007 |
Project with Elena Ledda / New ECM production |
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Finally an update to this news section again! Many
months have passed and many concert, too. Highlights have been a
collaboration with Sardinian singer/musicians Elena Ledda and Mauro
Palmas. This was a project presented in the Half Note Jazz Club
in Athens, Greece in March 2006. A CD was recorded and released
by LYRA in Greece.
The tour section has also been updated and you can look for upcoming
concerts there.
A new ECM production is in preparation and will be recorded with
producer Manfred Eicher in September.
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| 1 August 05 |
Marta Carta Annual Prize - Sardinia |
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Maria Carta was the premier interpreter of the music
and art of her country, Sardinia.
The Foundation which is named after her, since a couple of years,
started an annual prize with the aim of awarding the best musicians
in traditional and world music. This year an "international"
section has been created, and the jury voted SAVINA YANNATOU as
best artist.
The prize-giving will take place in Siligo, north Sardinia, Maria
Carta's birthplace, on 1 October.
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| 18 March 05 |
Triumph in the USA! |
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After two entuhusiastically received concerts in
Seville and Madrid in Spain, Savina and 4 musicians of PeS (Kostas
Vomvolos, Michalis Siganidis, Haris Lambrakis and Kostas Theodorou)
went on to the States. Raving reactions from spectators of the concerts
everywhere described their deep appreciation of the singer and group,
as well as of the beauty of the new material and the unique, creative
and skilled way hey approach it. The new CD "Sumiglia",
which came out in the USA on March 1st by ECM Records, was being
sold at the concerts and new orders had to be made in order to cover
the demand. Check the review section in a few days, for a phantastic
special by Don Heckman in the Los Angeles Times and a great and
witty review by Mark Keresman in Jazzreview.com, Chicago.
Following some pictures and a few of the reactions people wrote
us after the concerts. The photos are made at the San Francisco
concert by Dariyoosh Hariri. For view of his album or ordering high
res. pictures, contact us.
 
Well if last night's concert is any indication, then this tour
is going to be a HUGE success!!! The music was absolutely sensational
and Joe's Pub was sold out!!! There was a fantastic buzz in the
audience which I think they all felt on stage and it was just an
electrifying evening.
Sarah Humphries, New York
The concert was excellent! The show was sold-out and everybody
in the audience was raving about the quality of the concert. Savina
was amazing and the musicians excellent.
Gus Economou, Chicago
This was one of the most memorable concerts I ever attended! I
really liked Savina's older material and wasn't to exited about
her new explorations into the more experimental shade of the musical
spectrum. It was pretty intimate setting. The church was full.Standing
a few feet away from the stage and experiencing her incredible voice
reverberating throughout the hall was nothing short of a miracle.
Thank You!
Gil Medovoy-KDVS, San Francisco
The concert was wonderful... I loved it. I am definitely a fan....Again,
great concert.
Francis Xavier-Edwards, Vancouver
As I said below, the concert was fantastic - she's as wonderful
as ever, better than the last time she was in St. Louis. The audience,
usually a tough crowd, absolutely adored her.
Terry Williams, St Louis
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| 21-1-05 |
New CD Release! |
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"Sumiglia", Yannatou's first ECM studio album and her
first creative collaboration with producer Manfred Eicher, takes
the music to another level. "Sumiglia" both celebrates
the differences between the traditions and the common ground they
share. The musicians reveal a deep feeling for the melodies they
explore, treat them with great respect, and when the music seems
to demand it, follow their implications until increasingly free
improvisation becomes an inevitability. "Sumiglia" is
also a vocal, and linguistic, tour-de-force. Savina, possessed of
a voice that always seems a naturally expressive instrument, nevertheless
has the ability to move in and out of roles and characters (and
dialects and idioms) with an actress's or opera singer's facility:
she becomes the protagonists of her songs - the orphaned child of
"Porondos viz partjan", the suffering lover of "Sta
kala lu serenu", the war-weary narrator of "Terra can
nun senti", the Greek bride of "Evga mana mou" "Yannatou
is a chameleon," marvelled writer John Slavin in Australian
magazine, The Age, "playful, sexy and richly endowed with musical
intelligence. An astonishing artist." Drawing on the open-ended
arrangements of Kostas Vomvolos, the band is able to match Yannatou's
mercurial changes of mood. "Sumiglia" also gives the fullest
account yet of the group's instrumental range.
ECM 1903
CD 6024 982 4050 (2)
Release:
USA 1 March
Germany March
UK 21 March
France 11 April
Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia and other European countries end of
March
Release concert: 23 March at Club 22, Athens, Greece
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| 8 -3-04 |
Adelaide, Australia |
 
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A wonderful WOMADelaide Festival in Australia,
with phantastic weather and a great audience once more confirmed
the extraordinary talents of the WOMAD organizers.
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| 15-1-04 |
Brindisi |
In Brindisi Savina and the group played a concert of the Virgin
Maries of the World in the Cathedral. That same morning they
joined a meeting of the Greek community with the mayor in the
town hall. Here you see Savina with old Griko singers of the
group Argalio:
The concert at GLOBALfest in the Public Theater in New York
was a huge succes for Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico.
Our Nort-American agent Itzik Becher says: the reaction to Savina's
performance was fantastic. People raved and were very impressed
and happy with the show. He has started booknig dates in Nort
America for March 2005. |
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| 20-9-2003 |
Aviv Productions |
| Good news: the agency of Savina Yannatou for North America
as of today is Aviv Productions in New York! Check their coordinates
in the contact section. Aviv productions
are planning tours for Savina in north America in the autumn
of 2004 and the spring of 2005. |
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| 10-9-2003 |
Helmut Buergel comments |
| Helmut Buergel, the artistic director of the "Stimmen"
Festival in Loerrach in Southern Germany, writes the following
about Savina's concert there on 12 July: 'it was a wonderful
concert.... This was a real highlight of this years Stimmen.
A wonderful setting, a wonderful sommernight, a highly concentrated
audience and Savina and her band on the top level of her music.
...... It was just a wonderful moment of grace, as everything
came together - even the moon above the stage at the end of
the concert.' |
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| 4-9-2003 |
New interview online! |
We didn't know radio interviews could be an art form, but
this interview on NPR (USA) by David D'Arcy certainly is a work
of art! You can listen to it following these two links, depending
on your player preference:
Real
Player Format
Windows
Media Player format |
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| 28-8-2003 |
Tour updates! |
The tour section has been updated! Check it out here!
Soon you will have the chance to hear MP3 samples from Savina's
latest tour with Primavera en Salonico! Visit soon! |
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| 18-6-2003 |
Moers New Jazz festival |
Moers New Jazz Festival's program director Burkhard
Hennen says about Savina & Primavera en Salonico's performance
on 8 June (with the participation of Tunesian singer Lamia Bedioui):
'For me personally was the concert of Savina one of the big
highlights of the festival, a revelation. Thanks very much for
the great collaboration, everything worked out wonderfully.'
You can also check out a new review by Thomas Steinfeld, in
the reviews section! |
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| 27-5-2003 |
Tour news |
| The current concert tour in Austria and Germany
is underway. The organizer Norbert Ehrlich in Vienna, where
the concert took place in jazz club Szene Wien last Saturday,
says that " tha concert has enthused all of us in Szene
Wien... In my opinion it was one of the most beautiful concerts
in the entire year." Last night in Munich the Studio 2
of the Bavarian Radio and TV was completely full and people
had to stand on the sides. |
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| 27-5-2003 |
Cultural Olympiad participation |
| Savina Yannatou's participation with 5 songs
in "All Around Is Light," an American Ballet Theater
tribute to the Cultural Olympiad conceived and directed by Costa-Gavras
, the Greek filmmaker, and presented on 20 May at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, got the following wonderful mention
in a review by Jennifer Dunning in the New York Times of May
22, 2003: "Savina Yannatou's dark, sweet voice suggested
the glimmer of the first star at dusk." |
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| 3-4-2003 |
Good start |
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At the occasion of the ECM release of her Terra Nostra live
album in the US Savina gave two performances: one at Joe's Pub
in New York on 16 April and one at the Kennedy Center's Millenium
Stage on 17 April. She was accompanied by Dimitris Mikelis,
oud; Apostolos Sideris, double bass and Mathias Kunzli, percussion.
A wonderful review was published in the Washington Post (see
review section). It was a very good start for the collaboration
with ECM and a useful preparation for the tour with Primavera
en Salonico to follow during winter. |
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| 4-19-2003 |
A"voice to die for"
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This is an unsolicited comment from a Global Village
listener (PBS-FM: 106.7 - Sundays 3-5 pm) in Melbourne Australia,
which we received through the music journalist Roger Holdsworth
and which refers to her show at the Melbourne Festival end of
October 2002:
"Thanks for that and thanks for
your interview on "Global V" on Sunday with the Greek
singer, Savina? I wasn't going to go to see her as I thought
she might be too much like Nana M or another rather boring singer
who was out here a few years ago but after hearing your interview
and her singing I was able to get a ticket at the Concert Hall
and she truly had a "voice to die for" - caught a
glimpse of you in the aisle at interval but didn't see you outside
to thank you. Gorgeous concert and superb musicians." |
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| 4-2-2003 |
ECM release of Terra Nostra |
| ECM records have released the latest live CD Terra
Nostra world wide. In the German speaking countries it was released
on 27 January, in the UK on 4 February, in France on 27 February
and in the USA on 15 March, while other countries follow. A
cover very different from the Greek release was designed according
to the style of the ECM products and everywhere the promotion
machinery is working full. The first reviews are being received
and will soon be published in the review section of this website.
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| 4-2-2003 |
Stricly Mundial Performance
on Mondomix |
An excerpt of Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico's
performance can be seen on Mondomix. A very intriguing audio
interview with Francois Besignor of last October in Paris can
also be heard on the same site:
http://www.mondomix.com/sm2003/index.htm
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| 4-2-2003 |
Hadjidakis songs sung
by Savina Yannatou |
| I am Off to Tell the Clouds is the name of a new
release by Lyra in Greece (December 2002) of songs by the very
much loved Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis, sund by Savina Yannatou
and orchestrated by Dimitra Trypani. A unique and beautiful
match of the tender and melodious Hadjidakis songs with the
almost fairy-like and often playful interpretation of Savina.
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