Singer, lyricist and fiction writer Kristi Stassinopoulou, a native Athenian, has generated a wide appeal in the international world music circuit. Accompanied by her long time collaborator composer, arranger, co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Stathis Kalyviotis, they have made 5 albums: Greekadelia (no 1 in the World Music Charts Europe, August 2012), Taxidoscopio, The Secrets of the Rocks (no 1 in the World Music Charts Europe), Echotropia (no 6 in the WMCE) and Ifantokosmos. The interesting blend of traditional greek rhythms and sound colours, haunting Byzantine vocal lines, rembetika music, psychedelic rock, ambience and electronica, combined with Kristi's vivid scenic appearance and personality and her colourful band, sparked great response and led to frequent appearances in music festivals and clubs mostly in Europe, N. America and BrazilReviews, interviews and presentations of Kristi's work have appeared in print media and e-magazines around the globe: fRoots,UK / Time Out, UK / Sign Out!, USA / Global Rhythm, USA / Billboard, USA / New York Herald Tribune, USA / Jazz Times, USA / La Presse, Canada / Global Village, Canada / El Pais, Spain / Batonga!, Spain / Folc, Spain / World1 Music, Spain / Folker!, Germany / Mareeve, Israel / Kathimerini, Greece / Ta Nea, Greece / Eleftherotypia, Greece, to name a few
DISCOGRAPHY:"Greekadelia", new arrangements of Greek folk songs, produces by Kr. Stassinopoulou and St. Kalyviotis, no 1 of the World Music Charts Europe in August 2012, released by Riverboat Records/World Music Network, June 2012. "Taxidoscopio" written and produced by St. Kalyviotis and Kr. Stassinopoulou / "traveller's tales from the Greekadelic Queen", fRoots magazine / Released by: Resistencia Records, Spain 2006 / Heaven and Earth, Germany 2007 / King Records, Japan 2007 / Protasis Records, Greece 2007 // "The Secrets of the Rocks" written and produced by Kalyviotis and Stassinopoulou / No 1 in the World Music Charts Europe, Jan 2003 / Released by: Hitch Hyke Records, Greece 2002 / Wrasse Records, GB 2003 / Tinder Records, USA 2003 / Resistencia Records, Spain 2003 // "Echotropia" written and produced by St. Kalyviotis and Kr. Stassinopoulou / No 6 in the World Music Charts Europe, May 2000 / Released by: Musurgia Graeca, Greece, 1999 / Resistencia Records, Spain 2000 / Tinder Records, USA 2000 // "Ifantokosmos" written and produced by St. Kalyviotis and Kr. Stassinopoulou / Released by:Thesis S.A., Greece1997 // "By The Lake With The Poppies" written by Panayiotis Kalantzopoulos, Evanthia Reboutsika, Afroditi Raila, Kr. Stassinopoulou. Produced and released by Lyra, Greece 1993 // "Kristi Stassinopoulou" written by Kr. Stassinopoulou, Kleon Antoniou, Takis Barberis, Stayros Papastayrou / Produced and released by Afi Falirea, Greece 1986 PUBLISHEDBOOKS: "Seven Times In Amorgos" Kastaniotis editions 1993 / Seven short mystery stories set on the cycladic island of Amorgos // "The Fiery Sword" Livanis editions 1995 / A novel of magic, set in Athens in the early 90s. FESTIVALS EUROPE: Europe in Union, Union Chapel, London, U.K. / Barbican Theater, Greece in Britain, London, U.K. / Womex 2002, Essen, Germany / Radio Bremen, Women in (e)motion, Bremen, Germany / Kemnade Inernational, Bochum, Germany / Muschelsalat, Hagen, Germany / Sommer Festival Der Kulturen, Stuttgart, Germany / Stadtpark Festival, Mannheim, Germany / Odyssee-Kulturen der Welt (guests of the Schal Sick Brass Band) cities : Muhlheim / Recklinghausen / Bochum, Germany / Kultursommer Festival, Hamm, NRW, Germany / Kultursommer Festival, Herford, NRW, Germany / Kultursommer Festival, Detmold, NRW, Germany Micro!Festival, Dortmund, Germany / United Islands Festival 2004, Prague, Czech Republic / Ethnoabient 2004, Split, Croatia / Ethnoabient 2007, Split, Croatia / Nowe brzmienia znad Renu Festival, Warshau, Poland (guests of the Schal Sick Brass Band) / Fira Manresa, Catalonia, Spain (First live presentation of taxidoscopio) / Forum 2004, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain / Alamar Festival, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain / Arreus 2004, Reus, Catalonia, Spain / Festival Interceltico de Oreyo, Cantabria, Spain / Castanieda Festival, Cantabria, Spain / Folk y Raices, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain / FIMPT, Barcelona, Spain / Festival Paupeterres, Leida, Spain / Fiestas de la Garriga, Barcelona, Spain / Festival Croma, Spain / Mercat de Vic, Vic, Catalunia, Spain / Festival les Escales, Nantes, France / Festival Sete Sois Sete Luas, Oeiras, Lisbon / Festival Sete Sois Sete Luas, Portugal Ponte de Sol, Portugal / Festival Sete Sois Sete Luas, Castro Verde, Portugal. FESTIVALS NORTH AMERICA: Central Park , Summer Stage, New York, USA / Kennedy Center, Millenium Stage,Washington D.C. USA / 21st Montreal International Jazz Festival, Quebec, Canada / Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg, Canada / Sunfest , London, Ontario, Canada.… FESTIVALS SOUTH AMERICA: Mostra de Artes Mediterraneo SESC, Sao Paoulo, Brazil / Mostra de Artes Mediterraneo SESC, Roteiro Verde 2005, Brazil / tour in 15 cities : Piracicaba, Botucatu, Sta. Barbara D' Oeste, Rio Claro, Limeira, Matao, Rincao, Ibitinca, Araraquara, Jau, Americana, Jundiai, Itapira, Campinas, Atibaia. FESTIVALS ASIA: 1st International Avantgarde Folk Music Festival / Yerevan / Armenia Genesis Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel / Women Sing the World, Tel Aviv , Israel . KRISTI and STATHIS continue their musical voyage, writing new songs, experimenting on environmental sounds and giving live performances in Greece and abroad. Since 2010, they have formed GREEKADELIA DUO: Kristi Stassinopoulou in singing, story telling, on Indian harmonium, acoustic guitar, frame drums, and small percussions and Stathis Kalyviotis on laouto, live looping, electric guitar and groove sampler. Together they create a soundscape ranging from purely acoustic to purely electronic, visiting all the in-betweens, with arrangements of Greek traditional songs and many more creations from their albums.
