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Savina Yannatou

Savina Yannatou Photo: Johanna Diehl - Wikimedia Commons

Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico celebrate 20 years on the road this year with a European tour starting in Rotterdam in a week’s time. Hear this extraordinarily versatile Athens-born singer and her equally remarkable band of Thessalonian musicians today in Global Sounds as we showcase two recordings, one old and one new: Tessa Nostra, recorded live in Athens in 2001 (ECM 1856) and their latest album Songs of Thessaloniki, released in 2015 (ECM 2398).

Music Details:

TRAD (Bulgarian): Ivan said to Donka, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Greek): Greek Hymn of St Demetrius, from Songs of Thessaloniki
TRAD (Turkish): Çalin Davullari, from Songs of Thessaloniki
TRAD (Sephardic): There were three sisters, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Sephardic): La cantiga delo fuego, from Songs of Thessaloniki
TRAD (Greek/Turk/Sephardic: Kadifé, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Hebridean): A Fairy’s Love Song, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Irish): Salonika, from Songs of Thessaloniki
TRAD (Berber): The song of the mother in law, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Guadelupe): Ah, my God, from Missa Antilla, from Tessa Nostra
TRAD (Pontic Greek): Tin Patrida Mou Ehasa, from Songs of Thessaloniki
TRAD (Greek): Extract, from Greek Hymn of St Demetrius, from Songs of Thessaloniki