Nana Simopoulos Discography of CDs

Nana Simopoulos songs The fact that Nana Simopoulos plays both the sitar and the bouzouki on Daughters of the Sun tells you a lot about the singer/instrumentalist. For centuries, the sitar has been one of the top string instruments in traditional North Indian music, whereas the bouzouki is a Greek instrument -- and if someone is capable of playing both instruments on the same album, you know that she has a truly multicultural outlook. ...

Nana Simopoulos CD discography If one heard Nana Simopoulos' name without knowing what kind of music she plays, it would be logical to assume that she's a traditional Greek artist -- Simopoulos, after all, is obviously a Greek name, and she is, in fact, of Greek descent. But the singer/instrumentalist is far from a Greek purist, and Gaia's Dream owes as much to Indian and Arabic music as it does to Greek music. Like her ...

Nana Simopoulos albums World music is one of those musical terms that is somewhat nebulous yet very useful and convenient. An umbrella term that has been applied to a wide variety of ethnic forms, world music could be anyone from the Chieftains to Ravi Shankar to the late Astor Piazzolla. In some cases, an artist might have different ethnic influences without sticking to any particular genre -- and Nana Simopoulos is that type of ...

Nana Simopoulos music CDs Nana draws her music's melodic color from the map of world cultures. She artfully blends sounds and textures from around the world. Indian sarangi master Ustad Sultan Khan accompanies her on her last two releases, After The Moon and the new Daughters ...

Nana Simopoulos discography Simopoulos was born in Baltimore, MD and studied her Greek ancestry from the root in that country, as well jazz at Duke University, the Naropa Institute, and the Guitar Institute of L.A. She plays deliberate, spare, wistful guitar and bouzouki, sings marvelously, and presents an uplifting, earthy, yet ethereal world-based music that captivates and compels one to explore it further. The nine selections here are comprised of the whole original Wings & Air session, plus three cuts from the previous release Pandora's Blues. Jim Pepper, Nana ...

Nana Simopoulos CD discography Bassist and composer Mary Ann McSweeney's second album as a bandleader is an impressive program of elegant compositions that manage to impress by dint of their complexity without alienating or, worse, boring the listener. McSweeney makes interesting instrumental and compositional choices that sometimes skirt the edge of a cloying mysticism, but she never gets bogged down in sappy new age musical platitudes. For example, the sitar on her composition "Atheada" is nicely integrated both melodically and texturally into the unique and original sound of the ...