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ALKANNA GRAECA • vocal trio

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singing the sounds of the balkans
based in London 💫
@irini.arabatzi | @alexandrachillea | @dunja_botic
—enquiries: [email protected]

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LONDONNN 💫
16 & 17 of April see you at @stonenest_ldn - we'll present our first staged show "MOURN" blending Balkan and Baroque laments with the amazing @figureensemble 🎻🎼

Tickets link in bio - be quick!

"Mor'Deropolitissa" - from Hepirus, Greece

#polyphony #vocalharmony #balkanmusic #traditional #greekmusic taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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MOURN is back @stonenest_ldn this weeeek with @figureensemble !
Book your tickets now for the 8,9 & 10th of October as they're now going very fast !
We have put so much love and work on this performance and we're really excited to be able to bring it back to life this Thursday 💫🤍

As we're getting back n the mood for rehearsals this week, here's some backstage footage from our rehearsals and shows back in April ! taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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Rehearsing for our show MOURN - 8,9 & 10 of October @stonenest_ldn !
This is a lament from Hepiros Greece. We will perform it alongside more Balkan, but also Baroque laments accompanied by the @figureensemble 🤍

Limited tickets left, link in bio 💫

#vocalharmony #polyphony #greekmusic #traditional taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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21 days ago

8,9,10 of October book your tickets for our show MOURN @stonenest_ldn !!
A staged performance blending Balkan and Baroque laments with @figureensemble !

"Lemonanthous se stolisa" a lament from Hepirus Greece.

#polyphony #vocalharmony #traditional #greekfolk taken in London, United Kingdom by @alkanna.graeca

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a month ago

London ! Our show MOURN is back on the 8,9 & 10 of October @stonenest_ldn 💫
A staged performance, featuring baroque and balkan laments with the amazing @figureensemble .

This is "Vini uara uara l'i", a powerful Vlach Lament.

Translation :
The time has come
The mother pleads to 'leave'
yet her children won't let her. taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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8 • 9 • 10 October | MOURN | Stone Nest, Soho

London: come and see this beautiful show bringing together Balkan and Renaissance Italian laments at @stonenest_ldn with the amazing voices of @alkanna.graeca — ticket link in bio

In this clip, kanun player @konstantinosglynos and violinists @jamesrtoll and @naomiburrellmusic improvise a skaros, a rhythmically-free instrumental lament, and a melancholic celebration of nature inspired by the shepherds flute

#londonevents #balkan #traditionalmusic #baroquemusic #renaissancemusic taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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MOURN | 8/9/10 October | Stone Nest, Soho
Ticket link in bio

I decorated you with lemon blossoms for the long
journey
My boy, sweet bird, my only pride

A traditional lament from Epirus ‘Lemonanthous se stolisa’ / ‘Λεμονανθούς σε στόλισα’ taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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a month ago

Throw open your gates, abysses, I have come to weep.

@irini.arabatzi sings Antonio Cesti’s ‘Disserratevi abissi’ from his opera L’Argia, with the ground bass played by Jan Zahourek on double bass, @sergiobucheli on lute, @konstantinosglynos on kanun, and Music Director and Creative Producer @__wax_on_wax_off__ on chamber organ, while violin countermelodies are improvised by @naomiburrellmusic and @jamesrtoll

The clip is from our show MOURN, a staged journey through grief which loves between concert, theatre, and ritual. Traditional laments from Albania, Epirus and Thrace meet works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Gesualdo, placing the living inheritance of Balkan mourning alongside the imagined antiquity of Renaissance Italy. Through these parallel traditions, MOURN asks how we come to terms with death and say farewell to those we love most.

MOURN is being reprised at @stonenest_Idn 8-10 October. Ticket link in bio. taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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My tears, why do you hold back?

@alexandrachillea sings Barbara Strozzi’s ‘Lagrime mie’ with lutenist @sergiobucheli, joined in this final passage by the rest of the ensemble @jamesrtoll and @naomiburrellmusic on violins, @konstantinosglynos on kanun, Jan Zahourek on double bass, and Music Director and Creative Producer @__wax_on_wax_off__ on chamber organ

The clip is from our show MOURN, a staged journey through grief which loves between concert, theatre, and ritual. Traditional laments from Albania, Epirus and Thrace meet works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Gesualdo, placing the living inheritance of Balkan mourning alongside the imagined antiquity of Renaissance Italy. Through these parallel traditions, MOURN asks how we come to terms with death and say farewell to those we love most.

MOURN is being reprised at @stonenest_Idn 8-10
October. Ticket link in bio. taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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2 months ago

Why don’t you sing, my bird,
The way you sang before?
Oh, how can I sing
The way I sang before?
They cut off my wings,
They took away my voice.

@dunja_botic sings Thracian lament Γιατί, πουλί μ’, δεν κελαηδείς / Giati pouli m den kelaidis, with kanun played by @konstantinosglynos and double bass by Jan Zahourek

The clip is from our show MOURN, a staged journey through grief which loves between concert, theatre, and ritual. Traditional laments from Albania, Epirus and Thrace meet works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Gesualdo, placing the living inheritance of Balkan mourning alongside the imagined antiquity of Renaissance Italy. Through these parallel traditions, MOURN asks how we come to terms with death and say farewell to those we love most.

MOURN is being reprised at @stonenest_ldn 8-10 October. Ticket link in bio. taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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2 months ago

Little impro during soundcheck on a song from the mountains of Epirus called "Lemonanthous se Stolisa" 💫

BRISTOL see you this Saturday 25/04 @circomedia !! We'll be running a workshop teaching you some of the balkan polyphonies we sing so you could combine this with the gig :) see you there !

Workshop : 5.30pm
Gig: 8pm

#balkanmusic #vocalharmony #vocaltrio #traditional #greekmusic taken in Bristol by @alkanna.graeca

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6 months ago

MOURN
8-10 October | Stone Nest | 7.30pm
Ticket link in bio

Following its sold-out premiere, FIGURE and Alkanna Graeca bring back MOURN: a staged journey through grief, moving between concert, theatre and ritual. Traditional laments from Albania, Epirus and Thrace meet works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Gesualdo, placing the living inheritance of Balkan mourning alongside the imagined antiquity of Renaissance Italy. Through these parallel traditions, MOURN asks how we come to terms with death and say farewell to those we love most.

Vocalists
@alexandrachillea
@iriniarabatzi
@dunja_botic

Violins
@naomiburrellmusic
@jamesrtoll

Lute
@sergiobucheli

Double Bass
@cosgravecarina

Kanun
@konstantinosglynos

Chamber Organ
@__wax_on_wax_off_

Stage Director
@alexandrachillea

Assistant Director (Movement and Dramaturgy)
@destiny.spiro

Lighting
@edwardjamessaunders

Music Director and Creative Producer @__wax_on_wax_off_

Videography by @musicartamedia
Editing by @hectorgiffordfilm taken in Stone Nest by @alkanna.graeca

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