Franco-Greek day in the Phocaean city. Head down the boulevard d’Athenes after leaving the station, then head to the Old Port of Massilia to climb up to the Citadel. Overlooking the Mediterranean and the mistral, the grounds of Fort Saint-Jean are the ideal place to listen to singer Dafné Kritharas, who has reached a milestone with her third album, Prayer & Sin. “Prayer and sin”, an inversion of atonement and sin. The wild woman, both majestic and fierce, created the typography on the cover herself, with scrawled writing, like letters carved with a penknife into the bark of a tree.
The concert closed with great enthusiasm, on October 19, the second edition of the Metropolitan Book Fair, dedicated to Greece and opened by the filmmaker Costa-Gavras, another artist with dual citizenship. These two countries are indeed the highlight of Dafné Kritharas’ singing tour, because Hellenic is now being replaced by French. So Two angels, two friends (adapted from To Tango this is Nefelisby Greek singer Haris Alexiou, with music by Canadian Loreena McKennitt) orAlfonsina (after Argentinian Ariel Ramirez and Félix Luna), two sweet treats on dry guitar that wouldn’t be a match for Françoise Hardy.
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