Concert
DE Standart Peter Vantyghem: „With a moving concept album, Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska gives us a taste of how music and poetry can be a weapon against war and oppression. "I sing for all those who can no longer sing..." ...This music doesn't want to please, it wants to survive. It grew out of pain, tension, and necessity. Dancing here is not a party, it's a form of resistance... ..However, "You should live!" is not a document of despair. It is also a tribute to old songs, new poetry, the dynamic musicality of the Ukrainian language, and the healing power of singing."
Vesna means Spring in Ukrainian. Mariana Sadovska, Christian Thomé, Matthias Kurth and Markus Braun created an acoustic east-western road movie: a meeting of cultures in poetry and melodies, which tells of the confrontation of love and death, of despair and hope - always in search of freedom and identity. Musicians expand their respective musical vocabularies to give a new expression of their cultural East-West encounter: almost-forgotten shamanic and today's urban variants of their instruments are packed into the rear seat back of their travel vehicle: jew's harps, indian harmonium, zither, laptop and other electronic devices.
Mariana Sadovska allows the songs of her native Ukraine, which are deeply rooted in her memory, to come in ever new fragments to her. They are burning desire to be sung and played. In the encounter with the western urban world of Christian Thomé both lyrical and musical leitmotifs, unexpected harmonic and rhythmic dialogues, driven across uncertain terrain - an acoustic struggle for truth in surprising images is developped by the both performers. They create a futuristic sound manifest as an expression of a universal desire for "heimat" and future.