Borderland: Mariana Sadovska & Band

Born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1972, Mariana Sadovska lives in Cologne, Germany, and works throughout Europe and the USA performing, directing workshops, participating in theatre projects, and composing incidental music. No stranger to Albuquerque, she has performed here several times as part of Tricklock Company’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival. She began her work in 1991 with Les Kurbas Theater in the Ukraine later joining Theater Gardzienice in Poland, where she worked for 10 years and began her exploration of indigenous music and cultures in the Ukraine, Ireland, Egypt, Cuba and Brazil. In 2001, she moved to NYC where she worked with La Mama Experimental Theater’s, Yara Arts Group and collaborated with such renowned artists as Michael Alpert, Anthony Coleman, Frank London, and Victoria Hanna. Her first solo CD, Songs I Learned in Ukraine was released in 2002. In 2004 she returned to the U.S. and recorded her second CD, Borderland which featured Anthony Coleman, Doug Wieselman, Roberto Juan Rodriguez and Frank London. In working with the musicians of her Cologne-based Borderland band, she found a medium for her furious interpretations of traditional songs from the Ukraine transforming them into a singular contemporary sound which revives archaic pagan midsummer night invocations, old-fashioned wedding songs, and melancholic emigrant chants and tells stories about life, adventure, sorrow and love. Borderland features Mariana Sadovska, vocals and harmonium; Jarry Singla, (prepared) piano; Sebastian Gramss, bass; and Peter Kahlenborn, drums.

$22/$17 Members & Students. Available in advance, by phone or in person, at the Outpost Performance Space (268-0044)