Klambatsea
Athens, Attica, Greece | INDIE
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" Bizzare enchantement ,not what might be excpecting but thoughtfully and dramatic" - Leister Bailey "Spirit of the Fringe"
"I like to provoke people" says Marika Klambatsea who performed at Edinburghs Fringe Festival
Marika Klambatsea channels both Maria Callas and Janis Joplin in her opera "Calamity Jane Letters to her Daughter" ( 1877-1902)
"I like to get inside people with my music" "Talk about my pain and this shows in my voice and in my Theatre"
"I love to sing arias through Parody" Indeed The Edinburgh featured opera..."Calamity Jane Letters to her Daughter" is based on the purported letters of the hard-drinking- gun singing American Woman who claimed to have a love child with Wild Bill Hickok
The work fuses agitated arpeggios and arias with Janis Joplin wails and a story of loneliness and lawlesiness.
She accompanies her singing with a jittery piano and flashes of her own autobiography - by Ioanna Kakkisis - Kathimerini English Edition in Herald tribune
Discography
2 cd with the title "Calamity Jane Letters to her Daughter" "La Saradua
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Marika Klambatsea is an avant garde award winning Composer,Pianist and vocalist , hailing from Greece ,incorporating jazz,contemporary classical and operatic elements.
Her theatrical live performances were in Festivals of Prague ,Edinburgh,,performances in Paris , Athens, and in live performances in Uk supported by the Arts Council
2003 was awarded with the Greek National Award for Calamity Jane Letters to her Daughter
She performed at Megas Alexandros .in collaboration with the Well known Director Spiros Vraxoritis
Her live performances have become famous for her expert piano as well as her operatic voice wich has a three and a half octave range
and for political takes on everything from classic arias to Billie Holiday and Free Improvisation
Her songs become weapons of many uses.... a relentless hail of crystal-clear melodic fragments (Georges Konstas Director)
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