BORDERLAND/ Mariana Sadovska

“Most expressive: an astonishing mélange of archaic elements, vocal arts, hard rock and theatrical-ironic refractions“ (WDR, Western German Broadcasting)

For fifteen years the Ukrainian singer, actress and composer Mariana Sadovska has been travelling through remote villages of western and central Ukraine collecting songs, legends, rimes from the women living there – popular material that only outlived the soviet era by oral tradition and which, nowadays, is mostly unknown even among Ukrainians.

Together with her band BORDERLAND (p/b/dr), Mariana works on this old popular material, transforming it into singular contemporary sound. Between folk music and avantgarde harmonies, she succeeds to revive the archaic pagan midsummer night invocations, old-fashioned wedding songs, melancholic emigrant chants... and to touch her public by telling stories about life, adventure, sorrow and love.
Mariana Sadovska, vocals, indian harmonium.

Jarry Singla, (prepared) piano
Sebastian Gramss, bass
Peter Kahlenborn, drums

Supported by Goethe-Institute New York, a branch of the Federal Republic of Germany's global cultural institute, established to promote the study of German and German culture abroad, encourage international cultural exchange, and provide information on Germany's culture, society, and politics.