Karta by eleni poulou

Thanks to Musikfonds I was able to complete Karta!
This album started in my mind in 1993 when Horn player star Harald Sack Ziegler gave me his Tascam 4 Track Tape Recorder.
I started working on blending Pontic Greek dance songs with breakbeats.
Now I was finally able to connect musicians and producers who could turn my vision into reality.
The most important thing for me was to connect different cultural and musical circles and to unite different musicians who otherwise would not play together to achieve a fusion of styles and disciplines, while emphasizing the similarities of traditional Greek and Pontic music and Western electronic club music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Thank you to the musicians who played with me - Hilary Jeffery & Dimitra Kousteridou, to Sascha Kösch (DJ Bleed) who made the Tiks go beats, and to Pavlos Tsavdaridis who played the Lyra so we could play with his sound, to Kanarini music school Berlin run by Aspa Anogiati and our Baglama teacher John Chief Stergiou who introduced me to Pavlos Tsavdaris and to Musikfonds who made this happen.

Eleni Poulou, musician,
radio creator, poet, currently in Berlin.

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