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Mariana Sadovska <\/strong>
Voice, Keys, Indian Harmonium, Electronics, Jews Harp
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Christian Thom\u00e9<\/strong>
Drums, Percussion, Zither, Electronics, Voice
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Markus Braun<\/strong>
Sound Design, Bass, Sound Engineer, Light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jazzthetik, Stefan Pieper, 5 Stars<\/strong>
Welche Kraft und emotionale Tiefe artikuliert sich hier: lm gleichberechtigten Duo mit ihrem Partner Christian Thom\u00e9  hat Mariana Sadovska, eine aus der Ukraine stammende und heute in K\u00f6ln lebende S\u00e4ngerin und Multiinstrumentalistin, die Musiktraditionen ihrer Heimat aufgesogen und mit sieben dadurch inspirierten ,,Fr\u00fchlings“-Songs (denn Vesna hei\u00dft Fr\u00fchling) eine eindringliche Musik auf der H\u00f6he der Zeit geschaffen. Die Welt ist im Aufruhr – dies k\u00f6nnte man hier als Grundschwingung intuitiv erfassen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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„Acoustic East-Western Road Movie“<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their new program Mariana Sadovska and Christian Thom\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The two musicians embark on a personal journey of discovery. In their luggage they have two of the oldest instruments of mankind: Mariana Sadovska with voice and Christian Thom\u00e9 with drums. In search of the essence of their mutual border crossings they 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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 Thom\u00e9 both lyrical and musical leitmotifs, unexpected harmonic and rhythmic dialogues, driven across uncertain terrain \u2013 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 \u201cheimat\u201d and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each concert by VESNA ends with hopeful sounds: their east-western road movie follows the certainty that after each dark and cold winter, the spring is coming!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The New York Times,  JON PARELES \u2014 18. January 2016<\/strong>
One thoroughly worldly individualist was Mariana Sadovska, a Ukrainian musician based in Germany. She wrung startling drama from traditionalist songs turned contemporary in a set that spanned folklore, humor, grief and rage. Her voice holds the clarity and bite of Slavic folk styles; her stage presence has the bright-eyed intensity of Bj\u00f6rk or PJ Harvey. Backed by Christian Thom\u00e9 on drums and electronics, Ms. Sadovska moved between acoustic instruments \u2014 harmonium, jaw harp \u2014 and her own keyboards and electronics. 
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The New York Times,  Ben Ratliff  \u2014 <\/strong>
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Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal: it doesn\u2019t matter whether she is singing soul or bel canto or folk. Such was the case with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska.\u2026 The responsibilities, protocol, and tradition of whatever style she is working in just vanish; she replaces them with pure vitality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WDR3 (Western German Broadcasting) <\/strong>
Most expressive: an astonishing m\u00e9lange of archaic elements, vocal arts, hard rock and theatrical-ironic refractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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