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Greek, Ladino & Minor Asia Music
Born in 1992 to a Greek father and a French mother, Dafne Kritharas draws her inspiration from the crossroads of East and West. Lulled by the Rebetika - these Greek songs from smokehouses and prisons - and Nissiotika (Greek islands music), singing very quickly imposed itself on her as a second breath.
A follower of style crossovers (jazz/rock/electro trad fusion) and the transmission of songs by oral tradition, she travels the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey to its extreme Southeast to soak up songs in various languages, threads of musical road trips where she meets, exchanges, and learns with many musicians encountered along the way. She released her first album in June 2018, composed of Greek and Sephardic songs from Minor Asia. These songs of the Aegean Sea, very mixed, are linked to the experience of exile and uprooting. She works mainly with pianist/composer Camille El Bacha and guitarist/songwriter Paul Barreyre.
Her 2nd album, which will be released with a concert at the Théâtre de la Ville on June 23, 2020, will feature many guest musicians: Rusan Filiztek (saz), Naghib Shanbehzadeh (Iranian percussion), Milàn Tabàk (drums), Matthias Courbaud (double bass), and Saddam Novruzbayov (zurna).
Born in 1992 to a Greek father and a French mother, Dafne Kritharas draws her inspiration from the crossroads of East and West. Lulled by the Rebetika - these Greek songs from smokehouses and prisons - and Nissiotika (Greek islands music), singing very quickly imposed itself on her as a second breath.
A follower of style crossovers (jazz/rock/electro trad fusion) and the transmission of songs by oral tradition, she travels the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey to its extreme Southeast to soak up songs in various languages, threads of musical road trips where she meets, exchanges, and learns with many musicians encountered along the way. She released her first album in June 2018, composed of Greek and Sephardic songs from Minor Asia. These songs of the Aegean Sea, very mixed, are linked to the experience of exile and uprooting. She works mainly with pianist/composer Camille El Bacha and guitarist/songwriter Paul Barreyre.
Her 2nd album, which will be released with a concert at the Théâtre de la Ville on June 23, 2020, will feature many guest musicians: Rusan Filiztek (saz), Naghib Shanbehzadeh (Iranian percussion), Milàn Tabàk (drums), Matthias Courbaud (double bass), and Saddam Novruzbayov (zurna).
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