{"id":6705,"date":"2025-12-15T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aggelikitoubanaki.com\/?p=6705\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:38:48","slug":"6705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aggelikitoubanaki.com\/en\/6705\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview on gazzetta.gr: Angeliki Toumpanaki\u2019s \u201cCircles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alexandros Stergiopoulos, December 14, 2025<\/p>\n

Angeliki Toumpanaki at \u201cStavros tou Notou Club\u201d (December 15 & 29): Crafting \u201cCircles\u201d That Connect\u2026<\/span><\/strong>
\nMusical circles, vocal circles, social circles, timeless circles\u2014<\/span>
\nthe circles of our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

A poetic introduction to Angeliki Toumpanaki:<\/span>
\nThe rolling stone gathers no moss; with the sun at her back, she becomes a sunstone\u2014unstoppable, radiating light. This means her journey bears no preconceived notions of perfection or imperfection. Everything human recognizes the fluid element within\u2014and offers a little of the moisture of its own eyes. And when a drop\u2014a tear, a bead of sweat\u2014falls upon the sunlit surface, the cloud is released, meeting the upright, cloud-like knives that slice it into countless, eternal fragments. Celestial collisions begin, and rainbows scatter gold and feelings brimming with understanding. The rain from above meets the rain from below\u2014and the circle births yet more circles, endlessly\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

And words \u201cdescend\u201d the white meadow only to rise again onto the roof of Angeliki\u2019s voice. Within the great circle of life, her circles differ and yet are identical\u2014at the very same moment! When you hear and inwardly see what Angeliki speaks, you grasp what lies between the sky\u2019s \u201cLong live!\u201d and the earth\u2019s \u201cAmen\u201d: music. As an indefatigable artisan of her art, wielding her voice as both tool and heart, she invites us to the project <\/span>Circles<\/span><\/em> on December 15 and 29 at <\/span>Stavros tou Notou Club<\/span><\/em>. Let us go\u2014to witness, to listen\u2014how the light-trees of our soul grow taller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Musical circles, vocal circles, social circles, timeless circles.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Angeliki deeply loves what she does\u2014and never ceases to study, investigate, explore, and share it. It is both beautiful and enriching to listen to her; her creative gaze \u201copens\u201d the mind and illuminates thought. In this endeavor, she desires\u2014and is able\u2014to do the following: to craft circles\u2014musical, vocal, social\u2014that weave together sounds and memories, tradition and contemporary motifs, our voices into beloved songs. Because what truly matters and endures in this life? Love that ripened into devotion\u2014and thoughts that conversed with chance and blossomed into songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

She herself, speaking of <\/span>Circles<\/span><\/em>, says:<\/span>
\n\u201cTwenty years filled with music, people, travels, collaborations, and upheavals\u2014twenty years built upon voice, body, research, collective ensembles, and an unrelenting need to transform sound into an inherently shared experience.<\/span>
\nIn this new encounter, I open a fresh circle\u2014one that ties together all the previous ones. A circle linking my roots with what I seek today\u2014between all I\u2019ve lived, all I continue to learn, and all I long to create.<\/span>
\nIt is a musical journey that belongs to no fixed genre, but rather to an inner necessity: to explore, to deconstruct my own motifs. I remain faithful to what makes me happy\u2014collective creation, spontaneous connection with the audience, free expression through music\u2014beyond tribes and genders, beyond borders and social conventions.<\/span>
\nAnd every circle we form remains open: it holds voices, stories, memories, moments\u2014and beloved faces.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alexandros Stergiopoulos, December 14, 2025 Angeliki Toumpanaki at \u201cStavros tou Notou Club\u201d (December 15 & 29): Crafting \u201cCircles\u201d That Connect\u2026 Musical circles, vocal circles, social circles, timeless circles\u2014 the circles of our lives. 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