Natassa Mare Moumtzidou

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Natassa Mare
Greek singer and songwriter Natassa Mare is a musician with studies and influences from classical and jazz music.
Cooperated with:

- The Greek Ministry of Macedonia Thrace, the Music Department of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Orchestra of the Polytechnical School of the same University in concerts throughout the greater region of Northern Greece.
- She cooperated with the European Parliament of Young People in the framework of the 24th meeting and has been twice member of the Contemporary Orchestra of Variety Music on ET3 National T.V. Channel.
- She cooperated with cultural clubs and Municipalities all over the country, she gave personal concerts and cooperated with music groups in various music related activities
- In January 2001 she participated in the EUROPEAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL in cooperation with GAIA FESTIVAL.
- In 2002 she staged the performance - Greece as a Female Expression - based on the music and songs of great Greek composers and, also, the recitation of excerpts from her personal notes. The performance was praised by the local press in the cities it was presented.
- She has cooperated in 380 concerts along with other artists from all over Greece into some of the most important events:
i) THE GREAT ANTI-WAR CONCERT for the war in Yugoslavia / Theater of Earth
ii) GRAND CONCERT against the war / Ancient Square etc
- She has sung in various theatrical plays:
i) NORMAL PERVERSIONS by Harold Pinter, Bald Theater
ii) L’ AMANT by Harold Pinter, Bald Theater
- She staged the performance PASSION with the PASSION BIG BAND, which she organized by herself and was in full charge of. Overall, 54 performances were given in theaters and concert halls.
- In 2002 she also represented Greece in the “Festival of Artist Women of the two Seas, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea”, a multi-complex happening organized by UNESCO in which 34 countries took part. Along with a 12-member orchestra (which she organized by herself), she presented a musical puzzle dedicated to Greek expression and its unification with the rest of the world through a global code. The Greek participation was considered to be the most important in the music section of the Festival.
- At the same period, she was appointed in charge of the Jazz department of Vocals and Contemporary Song in the NEW CONSERVATORY of Thessaloniki under the auspices of Karolos Trikolidis, and she performed a new series of concerts with the support of very important State bodies:
- i) “5th Mother World Festival 2001
- ii ) A Tribute to the Woman as a Meaning and as a Symbol
- iii) A Tribute to the Greek Expression etc
- with the support of the Ministry of Defense, the sponsorship of the Ministry of Macedonia- Thrace and the Ministry of Culture, with the cooperation of the Regional Government of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Consular Authorities, the Institute of Maternal Studies and ET3 National TV Channel
- In June 2003 her first disc with the title “a” is released and receives great reviews from the most valid Greek music magazines.
- She was also in charge of the direction and production of the video clip for the song titled “je t' appelle” which was taped in the regions of Nice and Monaco- as well as the song titled “Paradise”. Both songs belong to the song group of the “a” cd. She also attended to the videos that accompany and complement her new performance by the same title, where her new disc work is officially presented in cooperation with FAOS ORCHESTRA.
- Member of the Artists with out frontiers, she collaborated with Christine Alavoine and Marc Roger at his project "Sur les chemins d' Oxor", with the attendance of the French Institute, and the Historical Center of Thessaloniki.
- Since 2005 she is collaborating with British guitarist Jason Carter in various projects..

Reviews
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Natassa Mare is a charismatic as well as singular singer songwriter. An artist of high prescriptions, with classical music education, sensitivities, imagination, technique, modesty and all the things required for someone to “say” something special through the art he /she proposes.
Following the example of international artists of her field, such as Ute Lemper's, whom she repetitively reminded us of, she does not hesitate to experiment with and visit various music sites (yes, how we would like her too, just like Lemper, to sing Kurt Weill's songs in the original language they have been written, German or English. Her full understanding of the musicality of the words makes it a must). Having been influenced for many years by different music trends, jazz, ethnic and others, here she is now delivering a personal disc, titled “a”, the extract of her musical quest.
Her personal stigma is always present in the songs she presents. The listener accepts the invitation to a journey during which Natassa Mare is the guide with her attractive, sometimes eerie, sometimes immaterial, sometimes ecstatic voice. The words and the meanings of her verses (watch the course of her breath on the words of the first song “Je t' appelle”), her sky, her sea, the breaths that live beside her, the silent moments of her thoughts, her dreams and her nights, all these lead us to a musical Ithaca, which is exciting and romantic every minute. A musical Ithaca that comes alive through an intoxicating and inviting song.
We hope the songs by wonderful Natassa Mare will soon be heard outside the Greek borders. Her musical horizon is definitely hiding more treasures. We are looking forward to it. [A&N Records 9101].
Konstantinos Karabelas Sgourdas
Member of the Greek Music and Theater Union of Critics / Member of the critical committee of the International Contests Vincenzo Bellini and Sigismond Thalberg
Personally, I perceive the songs by Natassa Mare, a new comer in the cd industry, as absolutely erotic. The more eros does not know any limits being a biosomatic mechanism that works in full gear- the more the erotic song, which is the case, should know. The more cumulatively someone experiences the glory of eros, the more someone is led to its abstractional artistic expression.
Take a look at Kavafis' desire the whole creation in 50 words, Sappho's fragments, Shakespeare's sonnets, Pasolini's or Kanellopoulos' shots… Following such routes Natassa Mare with her wonderful voice traverses extreme erotic situations, which have been highlighted either by herself or by Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, her associate. Even if the music is examined, the same high quality characterizes the production of the themes. With one at least amazing- song, the French “Je t' appelle” and all the others moving in the same timeless dream world, Natacha Mare creates an album of fine aesthetics, which also benefits immensely from the perfect recording / production.
She calls it “a” ... let it be marked with capital “A”...
M.Fondas Trousas
F.T. Editor-in-chief of the Jazz & Jazz magazine
Judging by her curriculum vitae, Natassa Mare has tirelessly participated in the music scene of Thessaloniki with careful moves, a broad spectrum of quests and channels to express herself. In the nine themes of “a”, Natassa Mare attempts to create an album of high aesthetics, with reference to the erotic talk, belonging to easy tempo jazz orchestrations, oriented towards chill out atmospheres.
Ethereal vocals, erotic metaphysical verses with a poetic attitude (three songs were first presented in the performance of the Lover by Harold Pinter at the Bald Theater). All these in the “a”, which gets full marks for its production and final product concerning both sound and expression. It deserves our congratulations, indeed.
M..Michael Polyhronis
Difono magazine
Her musical influences come from the international music scene and spread from the west side of ethnic to jazz and ambient. Natassa Mare, however, manages to give them personal identity. This is the most important element in her first disc, titled “a”, which is the beginning of everything, and, therefore, half of it. So, the disc may not have compositional bursts, but it is dominated by the virtues of a songwriter who has a clear knowledge of the space she wants to move in and a specific personal position.
Through her disc, Natassa Mare expresses her position on orchestration (faith in the eminence of improvisation), on performance (the soft innuendo instead of the outgoing “statement”) but also on the verse (free poetry instead of the structured couplet and refrain). The cd creates the sense of a continuous journey, its songs being the different views of the same global scenery.
The sense of globalization is intensified by the alternation of the languages. Greek coexists with the English and French verses. Indeed, the two non- Greek songs are the most complete concerning the development of their genre.
M. Nikos Moraitis
Echo& Artis magazine
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