Savina Yannatou

Having constructed her reputation being a singer of Baroque, Renaissance, and early music, Savina Yannatou provides increasingly veered toward avant-garde jazz and improvisational music. Accompanied by her music group, Primavera en Salonico, which she shaped in 1993, Yannatou proceeds to show her mastery of Mediterranean music. Her repertoire contains tracks from Sardinia, Corsica, Israel, Turkey, Italy, Cyprus, Albania, Spain, Africa, SOUTH USA, the Caribbean, and her homeland in Greece. Having set up her popularity in traditional music, Yannatou begun to broaden her horizons in 1993 when she shaped Primavera en Salonico. The group — which targets a variety of Western european traditional, Byzantine, traditional Greek, and Near Eastern music — creates a global music sound with a combined mix of Western musical instruments (acoustic guitar, violin, and dual bass) and Eastern devices, including toumbeleki, bendir, tambourine, daoul, kanonaki, nay, and tamboura. A 12 months after coming collectively, Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico documented an recording of Sephardic folk tunes from the Balkan area. The recording was accompanied by two extra group recordings — Mediterranea: Tunes from the Mediterranean and Virgin Maries from the Globe. Recording like a soloist, Yannatou also released Springtime in Salonica in 1994, Traditional Lullabies (Nanourismata) in 1998, and Rosa das Rosas in 2000. Yannatou designated the turn from the hundred years by beginning an extended romantic relationship with Manfred Eicher’s ECM label furthermore to her agreement using the Lyra imprint. Her ECM debut, Terra Nostra, made an appearance in 2000. More than the next 12 months . 5, she made an appearance on recordings from the Plucked String Orchestra of Patras and Nikos Kypourgos, aswell as Nikos Mamangakis’ rating for the film Lilly’s Tale. In 2002, she released the tribute documenting Savina Yannatou Sings Manos Hadjidakis on Lyra. This is followed by an interval of looks on other performers’ recordings, including Michalis Gregoriou’s Μπλέ (2003) and Nikos Kypourgos’ Backyard Theatre (2004). In 2005, she sang on Vojislav Ivanović’s Levantina and came back to documenting for ECM like a vocalist on Anders Jormin’s Electra and her personal recording Sumiglia, with Primavera en Salonico. Also in 2005, Yannatou made an appearance in The Bacchae, the to begin five plays where she would take part aimed by Sotiris Hatzakis. In 2006, Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico collaborated with Sardinian vocalist Elena Ledda and composer/multi-instrumentalist Mauro Palmas around the recording Tutti Baci for Lyra. She also extended her musical romantic relationship with Mamangakis; it led to her learning to be a formal person in his ensemble. Commencing in 2006, she documented thoroughly with him, showing up on eight of his albums through 2011. The entire year 2007 saw the discharge of her very own Musique des Chambres on Lyra; it had been followed by Tracks of an Various other on ECM in 2008. More than the next 2 yrs, Yannatou made an appearance on recordings by Orchestra οf the Colors, Stella Gadedi, Felizol, Michalis Siganidis, and Soma, released by a number of labels. This year 2010 she documented the duet providing Attikos with United kingdom bassist Barry Man for Maya Recordings. After a protracted period spent touring with Primavera en Salonico and on sabbatical, Yannatou as well as the music group returned to documenting. Tracks of Thessaloniki made an appearance from ECM in-may of 2015.