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Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico with Lamia Bedioui: Watersong

Read "Watersong" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
May 10, 2025

Watersong is the fifth album on ECM for the extraordinary Greek world-music and free-jazz singer Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico, her splendid Athens-based ensemble: Kostas Vomvolos on qanun and accordion, Harris Lambrakis on nay, Kyriakos Gouventas on violin, Yannis Alexandris on oud, Michalis Siganidis on double bass and Dine Doneff on percussion. The album also features the noteworthy Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui,, with whom they have collaborated on many occasions. Researching the program, Yannatou fell under the ...

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Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs of An Other

Read "Songs of An Other" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 5, 2008

Greek singer Savina Yannatou and her longstanding group, Primavera en Salonico, continue to mine music from a wealth of seemingly disparate cultures, proving that politics and religion may divide, but music unites. Avoiding the liner notes, what's perhaps most surprising about Songs of An Other is how the songs may feel as if they're aligned with one culture when, in fact, they come from another. It's all part of the boundary-breaking aesthetic that has defined Yannatou's group since they first ...