KomПoussulĂ at Jazzfest Berlin

Several projects performing at this year’s Jazzfest Berlin – including Lumpeks, Black Sea Songs, and pianist Kateryna Ziabliuk – provide thrilling, disparate approaches to the adaptation of folk music in a loosely defined jazz context. Each of these artists from (mainly Eastern) Europe and around the Black Sea has located timeless narratives and melodies within traditions that stretch back centuries, demonstrating the endless malleability of songs that zero in on recurring themes of the human experience within their inventive re-imagination. These narratives and melodies have endured over time because they touch on things we can all relate to. They also gain additional relevance in the context of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Jazzfest Berlin has commissioned the musicians from these projects to share their ideas onstage and develop a joint performance that will allow listeners to trace differences in these various traditions and their specific approaches, but more importantly, we will also hear the commonalities. In addition to the musicians from Lumpeks and Black Sea Songs, Ziabliuk – a Ukrainian native currently living and working in Poland – has also invited the Berlin-based Australian drummer Samuel Hall and Rotterdam-based Ukrainian folk singer Maryana Golovchenko to round out the ensemble....

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Several projects performing at this year’s Jazzfest Berlin – including Lumpeks, Black Sea Songs, and pianist Kateryna Ziabliuk – provide thrilling, disparate approaches to the adaptation of folk music in a loosely defined jazz context. Each of these artists from (mainly Eastern) Europe and around the Black Sea has located timeless narratives and melodies within traditions that stretch back centuries, demonstrating the endless malleability of songs that zero in on recurring themes of the human experience within their inventive re-imagination. These narratives and melodies have endured over time because they touch on things we can all relate to. They also gain additional relevance in the context of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Jazzfest Berlin has commissioned the musicians from these projects to share their ideas onstage and develop a joint performance that will allow listeners to trace differences in these various traditions and their specific approaches, but more importantly, we will also hear the commonalities. In addition to the musicians from Lumpeks and Black Sea Songs, Ziabliuk – a Ukrainian native currently living and working in Poland – has also invited the Berlin-based Australian drummer Samuel Hall and Rotterdam-based Ukrainian folk singer Maryana Golovchenko to round out the ensemble.

LINE-UP
Kateryna Ziabliuk: piano, prepared piano, vocals
Samuel Hall: drums, electronic, percussions
Maryana Golovchenko: vocals
Louis Laurain: trumpet, cornet
Pierre Borel: alto saxophone
Olga Kozieł: vocals, traditional polish percussions
Sébastien Beliah: double bass
Sanem Kalfa: vocals
Joachim Badenhorst: clarinet, live electronics
George Dumitriu: acoustic & electric guitars, viola, effects

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