Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico ft. Lamia Bedioui

“Alive with risk, breath, and intuition — Yannatou traverses languages and lineages with rare fluidity.” — World Music Central

Poetic songs with Mediterranean power

With Watersong, Greek singer Savina Yannatou explores the many forms of water: from rain to sea, from tears to storms, from Ariel's song in The Tempest to the songs of the desert and coast. Water as a source of life and a primal force — a symbol of birth, loss, longing and purification. 

With her band Primavera and Salonico and Tunisian vocal artist Lamia Bedioui, she explores songs in Arabic, Greek, Italian, Spanish, English and Corsican. Ancient melodies from Egypt and North Macedonia flow together with Renaissance music and folk songs from the Mediterranean, alongside a new interpretation of the African-American spiritual “Wade in the Water”.

The sound of oud, qanun, violin, accordion, percussion, waterphone, mbira and double bass forms a fabric in which tradition, improvisation and contemporary sensibility merge.

For fans of Dhafer Youssef, Anouar Brahem, A Filetta, Maria Farantouri, ECM 

Watersong
Savina Yannatou (vocals), Lamia Bedioui (vocals), Kostas Vomvolos (qanun, accordion), Harris Lambrakis (nay), Kyriakos Gouventas (violin), Yannis Alexandris (oud, guitar), Dine Doneff (double bass, percussion)