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Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

Read "Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing" reviewed by Ian Patterson


You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into the city's fluid jazz/improvised music scenes, working with Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty and Cello Ireland. Her debut album Person I Knew (Self-Produced, 2019) ...

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Aleka

Label: EM Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Breeze; River Man; Samah; Song.

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Aleka Potinga: Aleka

Read "Aleka" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Aleka is the eponymous debut EP--and stage-name--of Alexandra-Ioana Potinga, a Romanian jazz vocalist and cellist based in Dublin. Aleka performs in several bands, as vocalist in Tommy Halferty's Camus Jazz and as cellist/backing vocalist with Ruba Shamshoum. This outing features her working band at time of recording (bassist Barry Donohue has since replaced Kevin Higgins) on ...


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