fRoots presents... KRISTI STASSINOPOULOU & STATHIS KALYVIOTIS

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...launching their new CD GREEKADELIA

Singer Kristi Stassinopoulou has been active on Greece's underground music scene and the international world music circuit for many years. Accompanied by her long time collaborator - composer, arranger, co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Stathis Kalyviotis (guitars, saz, laouto, bass, baglamas, keyboards, groove sampler and percussion) - they have made five albums: Ifantokosmos, Echotropia, The Secrets Of The Rocks (No 1 on the World Music Charts Europe), Taxidoscopio and now Greekadelia.

Their blend of traditional Greek rhythms and sound colours, haunting Byzantine vocal lines, rembetika music, psychedelic rock, ambience and electronica, combined with Kristi's charismatic personality and their colourful band, sparked great responses and led to frequent appearances in festivals, concerts and clubs across Europe, North America and Brazil.

An informal acoustic duo appearance at London's Roundhouse in a big concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of fRoots magazine was so well received that they were inspired to pursue a new duo project, resulting in the album Greekadelia which will be released internationally by World Music Network in June 2012. As a live duo performing the Greekadelia repertoire - Kristi on vocals, acoustic guitar, Indian harmonium, frame drums and small percussion; Stathis on laouto, live looping and groove sampler - they are mesmerising, as we witnessed on their exclusive Green Note debut in late 2010.

Greekadelia features their arrangements of Greek traditional folk songs, as born, sung and danced in Greece's rural areas from the Aegean up to Thracia and Macedonia, from upbeat dances and fire celebrations to the old love songs of Asia Minor and to the harsh demotica songs of the mountainous areas of Epirus and Peloponnesus, in soundscapes ranging from purely acoustic to purely electronic.

Audio & video samples of Greekadelia at :
www.greekadelia.com

PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 8.45pm.

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