YANNATOU / PRIMAVERA EN SALONICA, SAVINA

Savina Yannatou made her ECM debut with the live album "Terra Nostra". Released early in 2003, it alerted the world's press to the work of this exceptional Greek singer and her maverick band of free-thinking musicians, Primavera en Salonico. They play the traditional musics of the world in a spirited and liberated manner, and with a wide perspective that is far from "traditional". Now "Sumiglia", Yannatou's first ECM studio album and her first creative collaboration with producer Manfred Eicher, takes the music to another level.

Pooling songs from Greece, Corsica, Italy, Sicily, Galicia, Palestine, Albania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Moldavia and the Ukraine, "Sumiglia" both celebrates the differences between the traditions and the common ground they share. The musicians reveal a deep feeling for the melodies they explore, treat them with great respect, and when the music seems to demand it, follow their implications until increasingly free improvisation becomes an inevitability. "Sumiglia" is also a vocal, and linguistic, tour-de-force.

Estimated despatch 21-30 days after ordering.