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Primavera En Salonico
Between them the members of Primavera en Salonico have enormous musical experience, in genres from traditional music to modern composition via jazz and improvisation. Violinist Kyriakos Gouventas, for instance, has played with many of the great folk singers of Greece and is a member of Thessaloniki’s Ensemble of Traditional Music, and the well-known Tombourlika, a rembetika group that also includes Yannis Alexandris. Alexandris is highly respected as both an instrumentalist and a builder of traditional instruments, including bouzoukis, baglamas, lutes, tambouras etc. Bassist Michaelis Siganidis has been active in the Greek jazz/improvised scene, working with Sakis Papadimitriou and others; he also has a reputation as a poet and songwriter. Ney player Haris Lambrakis, at 28 the band’s youngest member, plays with both traditional and contemporary ensembles. Percussionist Kostas Theodorou is a multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a bassist. He has worked with Bulgarian kaval player Theodossij Spassov, combines Greek rhythms with those of the neighbouring lands, and describes himself as an “avant-garde folk musician.”
Marshalling all these talents is Primavera’s musical director, Kostos Vomvolos. Responsible for most of the arrangements and adaptations, Vomvolos is well-known in Greece as a writer of theatre music and is also an arresting instrumentalist, on both the accordion and the qanun (or psaltery) which he plays in an inventive, idiosyncratic manner.
Marshalling all these talents is Primavera’s musical director, Kostos Vomvolos. Responsible for most of the arrangements and adaptations, Vomvolos is well-known in Greece as a writer of theatre music and is also an arresting instrumentalist, on both the accordion and the qanun (or psaltery) which he plays in an inventive, idiosyncratic manner.
