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The music ensemble LOXANDRA was founded in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is named after the heroine of a famous Greek novel known, apart from other things, for her cooking mastery.
The ensemble, exactly as the great cook “Loxandra” did, collects many different “musical ingredients”, mix them with mastery and creates an original blend of music.Initially, LOXANDRA’s musical roots sprang primarily from the urban musical tradition of the Greek people (Romiee) of Istanbul and Smyrna, the extremely diverse Greek folk and traditional music, the contemporary Greek urban music, and has since then blended with stylistic references to the classical Ottoman music, the oriental sound of the Arabic East, the Sephardic music and the music of the Balkans.