Greekadelia reviews
Fresh take on Greek folk material by veteran duo (Songlines) 16/09/2012
Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Kristi Stassinopoulou absorbed influences ranging from Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to Middle Eastern radio broadcasts reaching Kalamáta, her father’s hometown. After playing Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, and representing Greece in the 1983 Eurovision competition, she shifted to underground rock. More recently, she has described […]
Read More...freegan kolektiva, Lebanon 07/09/2012
Genre: Demotika / Traditional Greek / World / Revamped folk Region: Athens, Greece Label: Riverboat UK Music, World Music Network Release Date: June 18, 2012 This album evokes feelings of familiarity, belonging and inner soul-searching at once. This is the essence of the music of globetrotters Greekadelia Live Photoand intronauts, Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis. […]
Read More...B!Ritmos, Spain 04/09/2012
Le habíamos perdido un poco la pista a esta pareja de creadores atenienses desde que nos presentaron, hace más de un lustro,Taxidoscopio (Resistencia, 2006), su anterior entrega. Así que nos alegra recibir este nuevo trabajo, una grabación que ha vuelto a situar sus nombres en la primera posición de la lista europea de ritmos étnicos y […]
Read More...Le Magazine Son et Images, Montreal, Canada 01/09/2012
Enfin une bonne nouvelle provenant de la Grèce, pays au patrimoine aussi riche que mythique qui, depuis quelques temps, traverse une période particulièrement difficile économiquement et socialement parlant: Après nous avoir généreusement offert au fil des années des petites merveilles musicales aux titres évocateurs tels: “Ifantocosmos”, “Echotropia”, “The Secrets Of The Rocks” et “Taxidoscopio”, le […]
Read More...ROOTSTIME.BE 01/09/2012
Het is niet al kommer en kwel in het hedendaagse Hellas. Maar het scheelt niet veel. Ook muzikaal heeft het land te kampen gehad met tegenslagen, zoals het veel te vroeg verdwijnen, begin 2011, van singer-songwriter, producer en denktank Nikos Papazoglou, die als geen ander de link legde tussen oud en nieuw. Ook het fatale […]
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It’s Not Easy Being Greek (npr music) 06/08/2012
It’s not an easy time to be Greek. There’s the grinding and seemingly interminable economic crisis, endemic unemployment, riots and violence in the streets, a corroded political landscape (including the stratospheric rise of a neo-Nazi party, as chronicled by Maria Margaronis for The Nation) – and the feeling that the country is sliding into irrelevance. […]
Read More...Financial Times 23/06/2012
3*** stars The Greek duo set traditional demotika songs for harmonium and lauto, then pump them up with samples With a blast of a seashell horn and a mangled announcement from a ferry captain, Stassinopoulou and Kalyviotis set off on a tour of Greece, setting traditional demotika songs for harmonium and lauto (the Greek lute), […]
Read More...Guardian, UK 14/06/2012
4**** stars There has been little good news from Greece in recent months, so it’s great to find a Greek duo doing inventive, contemporary re-workings of traditional songs. Kristi and Stathis are not exactly newcomers – they once played together in a punk band, and have recorded a series of albums including the European bestseller […]
Read More...fRoots 01/06/2012
The all-star fRoots 30th Birthday Concert at the Roundhouse a few years back was a night of celebration and revelation. Even those whose music had previously failed to strike a chord with me delivered short sets that hit the spot. Chief among these were the duo of Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis, who flew in especially from […]
Read More...Independent, UK 24/05/2012
Nice to find something upbeat coming out of Greece, though that’s not the first word this charming CD calls to mind. “Reinvented folk” is how these young musicians like to describe their art, but with its ancient vocal undertones their down-home reinvention goes back to the music’s source. They set urban demotika, sailors’ songs and […]
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