Olesya Zdorovetska
Olesya Zdorovetska is a performer and composer from Ukraine, whose deep love of musical expression transcends genre and style.
ULTRAMARINE
Improvisation music, jazz, Ukrainian tradіtional songs, visualization of old songs, archaic singing, Irmos, performance, drama. Uliana Horbachevska – vocal, Mark Tokar – double bass, Oleksiy Khoroshko – visualization
Undivided
“… wonderful creative music! Very deep! Great work!” – Larry Blood, Public Radio KUSP-FM, November 2010, USA. “… impressive global quartet … musically superlative.” – Ken Waxman, thewholenote.com, January 2011, Canada. “This album is absolutely beautiful”
Varpai
This unique trio utilizes extended vocal and instrumental technique, archaic sound objects, and ritual percussion within free metric structures.
Ken Vandermark
For the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and working to expand the possibilities of improvised and composed music in North America and Europe.
Yuriy Yaremchuk
The interplay of space and time in the human mind creates an endless number of thought forms, which reflect human existence.
Klaus Kugel
“Most ensembles can only wish for a percussionist with such high skill and perceptive musicianship as Klaus Kugel” – Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
Roberta Piket
A musical pioneer in more ways than one, Roberta was the first and only woman leader with a release on the Criss Cross label (the 1997 Unbroken Line).
OP DER SCHMELZ
This remarkable quartet combines improvised chamber music, jazz, and contemporary composition in a compelling and spontaneous exploration of new musical architectures that allows them to communicate intimately with each other and the audience. Their commitment to only the most honest of artistic expressions with nothing held back leaves the listener transfixed and perhaps transformed.
MO is a sonic dialogue between Olesya Zdorovetska and Mark Tokar which explores improvisation as a catalyst for embodied cognition.
‘МО’ – як недоМОвленість і МОва, це як МОлитва, але і розМОва водночас, це те, що МОжна, а не мусиш.
У цьому проекті розмовляє навіть контрабас, який знає людську мову.
Марк Токар та Олеся Здоровецька грають разом сучасну імпровізаційну музику з 2011 року і відтоді триває їхня музична розмова, свідками якої ви маєте можливість стати.