Incantations is a meeting point of various women artists creating an empowering and immersive journey made of mysterious chants, hypnotizing sounds, moving bodies and visual performances. The night will grow as a polyphonic ritual among which performances will occur in the contemplative space of the PLYFA theater of Athens.
The Vougioukli Sisters:
Technique or expressiveness: a fiercely debated subject amongst music lovers that ceases to exist in the divine presence of both. This much sought-after endowment is a way of life for siblings Eleni and Souzana Vougioukli.
Born and raised in the multi-cultural environs of Xanthi, northeastern Greece, the sisters have in less than a decade taken the local music scene by storm. Their musical art form brings harmony and custom. Performing in over 20 languages, the two girls turn to tradition for inspiration and training, absorbing the musical “wisdom” of the past while adding their own artistic signature and finally producing a distinctive creative outcome. Whether it be Portugal’s lamenting fados, Irish ballads and drinking songs, the forceful American blues or the passionate songs of southern Italy’s Grecia Salentina, the Vougioukli sisters manage thanks to their extensive classical studies to deliver a practiced performance.
But it is neither their impressive vocal skill nor correctness that sets them apart. As many of us will agree, technically gifted artists abound. The pair’s arousing vocal acrobatics linger into those deeper nooks and crannies of the soul, leading to the gratification and accompanying elation that only music can achieve. And this, my friends, is what artists from all walks of art strive to achieve. This is too what we the audience, starved of good sound, seek to find. Both are professional musicians by studies… and choice. Souzana is a mathematics degree holder and speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. While Eleni, specialising in Slavic and Balkan studies and economics, speaks Arabic and Turkish.
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Exotica Lunatica:
Exotica Lunaticais a French-Greek musical duo formed after the explosive and obvious encounter of two very singular artistic personalities. This project is an invitation to travel, to discover several horizons coexisting in harmony and enriched by their diversity. Born in 2022, the duo has released their debut album « Enter The Moon » last June, and has been touring in France, Italy and Greece since then.
Eleanna Konstanta is a Greek singer, guitarist, director and performer and Daphné Hejebri is a French composer, multi-instrumentalist, director and performer. With a strong technical musical background and emerging from various roots, this duo produces an ethnic and deeply polyphonic music with real sounds, incorporating classical elements and merging them with diverse modern materials. Exploring various themes such as the relationships humans have with the living, with the elements, with the matter, with the senses, with the transcendence, as well as more committed socio-political themes, this duo conveys us through a mystical, metaphysical, erotic and cosmic soundscape.
The creative fusion between the two women artists was evident, like a sharing of heritage, an opening to new horizons and a deep desire for connection through a mixture of singular artistic universes. The specificity of what Exotica Lunatica offers lies in the hybrid character of a music that claims to break away from genre. Its existence is also accompanied by a desire to create strong collaborative, performative, musical and visual objects that only strengthens its identity. Born with the idea of surrealism, symbolism and a touch of mysticism, this duo develops a language that brings together a variety of images through which sensory connections can be established.
