«Here is a new combination. Jason Carter is a classical-flamenco-world guitarist, who collaborates with artists from across the globe. Natassa Mare is a Greek singer. Together, they are unlike anything I have yet heard.»
«How to describe a collection so unique, and without any obvious reference points? Mare gives us a more upbeat and sensual version of the resonant vocals in Gorecki’s  Third Symphony (“Going Home”) seasoned (on “Marks Piece”) by occasional bursts of Kate Bush.»
«Rarities usually prove to be either oddballs or treasure. This disc is definitely one of the latter.»

Derek Walker
The Phantom Tollbooth
USA

«For art work we have naked bodies in various states of embrace telling graphically what is happening aurally on this singular album where flamenco/classical guitarist Jason Carter teams up with Greek neoclassical singer Natassa Mare for a meeting of musical minds.»
«The skin-on-skin feel of the booklet seems to let us know that bodies were made for embracing, they fit together so well. It's a mirror image of the aromatic nylon strung music and lingering voice of two people who fit so well together musically, it's joy and peace to listen to»..
«If you ever wondered what the Sirens sounded like when they sang to Ulysses then Natassa's haunting voice may be somewhere near it. Sometimes when the word "classical" is mentioned many popular music lovers switch off, but it would be wrong to write this off as a strict measure by measure classical performance.»
«There are overtones of jazz, world, flamenco, sitar, Greek and even the simplicity of children's nursery rhymes with hints of a number of other styles besides.»

Paul Poulton
Cross Rhythmes

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

« a » Natassa Mare Moumtzidou

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].

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