Musical crossroads between Greece and India

Born in Paris, this project is a musical crossroad between artists of different origins : a surprising mixture of mediterranean and asian sounds.

«...Now Xanthoula Dakovanou comes back, with different company this time, Ensemble Anassa, in a personal journey that runs through the musics of the world, through her project «The Lady and the Boat». These are compositions of the talented greek musician, inspired from the greek tradition, in a musical journey that meets India, Afghanistan and Japan. A wonderful amalgame of compositions and improvisations, that investigate common rythms and modes...»

Athens Press Agency, December 2011

«...born in Athens, craddled by the songs of the Epirus’ mountains sang by her grandmother, later passioned by the music of the middle-ages and of the whole mediterranean...clear voice that remains close to the sweetness of ancestral vehement...»

Eliane Azoulay for TELERAMA, Paris, May 2010

«...jumping barefoot beetweet Occident and Orient, dawdling the traditions, but daring to rearrange at convinience the ancestral songs...»

Vibrations, Paris, June 2010