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Savina Yannatou

Watersong w/Primavera en Salonico, Lamia Bedioui

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Release Date: April 11, 2025

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1 The Song of Klidonas  
2 Naana Algenina (Garden Mint) - Ivana  
3 Ai Giorkis (Saint George)  
4 A los ba?os del amor (At the Baths of Love)  
5 Perperouna  
6 Con que la lavare (With What Shall I Wash it)  
7 Sia maledetta l'aqua (Cursed Be the Water)  
8 Mawal (To the Mourning Dove, I Said)  
9 Kalanta of the Theophany  
10 The Immortal Water  
11 Full Fathom Five  
12 An Ron (The Seal)  
13 O onda (O Wave)  
14 Wade in the Water - Allah Musau (God of Moses)  
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Greek singer Savina Yannatou’s fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing, and a curse. A life-sustaining source, the medium of baptism and spiritual rebirth, and a mortal threat in the elemental fury of the storm.  Shakespeare’s play The Tempest with the spirit Ariel’s song, “Full Fathom Five”, provided an inspirational starting point for this project, its imagery conveying the sea’s power to effect startling metamorphosis: “Full fathom five thy father lies/Of his bones are coral made/Those are pearls that were his eyes/Nothing of him that doth fade/But doth suffer a sea change/Into something rich and strange.” The richness and the strangeness are embodied in the playing here, with percussionist Dine Doneff drawing ghostly harmonics from a bowed waterphone, while Savina freely interprets the 17th century melody of English composer and lutenist Robert Johnson.

  • Aquatic hymns on Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico and Lamia Bedioui - Watersong / The Guardian
    Posted At: March 28, 2025
    Greek singer Savina Yannatou’s fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing, and a curse. A life-sustaining source, the medium of baptism and spiritual rebirth, and a mortal threat in the elemental fury of the storm.  Shakespeare’s play The Tempest with the spirit Ariel’s song, “Full Fathom Five”, provided an inspirational starting point f...
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