{"id":303,"date":"2017-03-04T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T09:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:10:07","slug":"incense-of-music-no-11-spell-fotinaki-filippou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2017\/03\/04\/incense-of-music-no-11-spell-fotinaki-filippou\/","title":{"rendered":"Incense of Music 11 – SPELL: Fotinaki, Filippou"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Incense of Music 11<\/p>\n

Spell<\/p>\n

An olfactory concert \u2013 Monday, 13 March 2017, 8 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Katerina Fotinaki<\/a><\/strong>: vocals, guitar<\/p>\n

Evi Filippou<\/a><\/strong>: percussion<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

Incense: Greek Cypress<\/a>, Wormwood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Palais im Roten Salon, Volksb\u00fchne Berlin \u2013 Volksb\u00fchne link<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Katerina Fotinaki<\/a>'s performance \"Spell\" is a kind of exorcistic travel guide between ancient witchcraft and modern neurosis. The celebrated Greek singer-songwriter offers musical-poetic remedies against despair and evil magic. She is accompanied musically by Greek percussionist Evi Filippou<\/a>. Greek cypress<\/a> (Cupressus sempervirens) and wormwood<\/a> (Artemisia absinthium) will be burned simultaneously with the concert.<\/p>\n\n

Compositions by: Katerina Fotinaki, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Leonard Cohen, Violent Femmes, Guillaume de Machaut, Henry Purcell, Georges Aperghis, Manos Hadjidakis, and Mikis Theodorakis. Alongside Orphic hymns and ancient Greek magic spells, Katerina recites texts by Sappho, T. S. Eliot, W. Blake, A. Tennyson, O. Elytis, K. Palamas, and D. Solomos.<\/p>\n\n

For guests who are particularly sensitive to smoke, this event is not recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Poster by Miltos Pantelias<\/p>\n\n

Artists<\/h2>\n\n
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Katerina Fotinaki<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 vocals, guitar<\/p>\n

Katerina Fotinaki (Greek: \u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bd\u03b1 \u03a6\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7), born in Athens, is a Greek guitarist, singer, and songwriter. She studied classical literature at the University of Athens and vocal technique at the Institute of Vocal Arts under baritone Spyros Sakkas. She was artistic director of several projects in Greece and received numerous awards at composition competitions. In 2006, invited by composer Ang\u00e9lique Ionatos, she moved to Paris, where the two created three different stage programmes together as well as a joint CD\/DVD of their duets. Katerina held a scholarship from the Cit\u00e9 des Arts for several years. In December 2011, she won first prize in a national songwriter competition organized by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation in Athens for her song \"To Oniro\" (\"The Dream\"), based on a poem by Dionysios Solomos, launching her solo discography with the album \"Tzitzikia\" (\"Cicadas,\" Accords Crois\u00e9s\/Harmonia Mundi), for which she set to music the lyrics of contemporary Greek poets such as Odysseas Elytis alongside her own texts. The album was enthusiastically received by the French press (an \"fff\" rating from T\u00e9l\u00e9rama, named 4th best CD of the year by Le Monde in 2014). Alongside Greek music and poetry, Katerina Fotinaki studied contemporary music with composer Bernard Cavanna at the Gennevilliers Conservatory. Since 2014 she has taught at the National Theatre of Northern Greece. The French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles wrote of her poetics that she favours the ancient sources that do not separate song and poetry from myth and theatre over the mere beauty of folklore.<\/p>\n

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