![]() ![]() “The fine way in which they interweave Byzantine folk music, rembetiko, Balkan grooves, folk-rock, ambient sounds and high-energy rock is really a class of its own” says culture office worker Meike Richter, who – like many in the audience – liked the music particularly. “The Greek and Turkish music use similar instruments, after all the Aegean is a single cultural sphere in terms of music” says Ellinghaus. “Kristi Stassinopoulou is one of the great innovators of Greek music and sings to huge audiences in her home country.”Īttracted by the first notes of Kristi’s music, visitors gradually left the places where they had fled from the rain to listen to the band’s somehow exotic yet familiar songs combining various colour tones of Greek music with elements of psychedelic rock and electro-groove. “They play contemporary Greek music combining elements of rock and pop as well as of traditional music” is how Birgit Ellinghaus of the agency “Alba Kultur Köln”, who accompany the band on their three concerts in the region, describes the musicians. However, neither of those proved a source of disappointment: the rain produced a rare double-rainbow right over the stage, and the Greek music delivered was of exceptional quality. ![]() On Wednesday night, the faithful “Kunstdünger” audience experienced a particular musical experience together with a natural spectacle: as the Greek singer Kristi Stassinopoulou and her band began to play, rain set in. ENGLISH / DEUTSCH WESTFALISCHE NACHRICHTEN Greek ethno-sounds under a rainbow: Kristi Stassinopoulou and her band play at the “Kunstdünger” festival ![]()
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