Tamara Lukasheva: "Seasons" with Dyvyna

Tamara Lukasheva - Gesang Ensemble "Dyvyna" - Gesang

(english: see below)

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Das Folkloreensemble Dyvyna wurde Ende 1998 an der Nationalen Universität Donezk gegründet und bestand dort bis zum Beginn der russischen Besatzung im Jahr 2014. Das Repertoire des Ensembles umfasst ukrainische Volkslieder verschiedener Genres, von denen die meisten im Rahmen von Folklore-Expeditionen in der Region Donezk aufgezeichnet wurden. Heute ist das Ensemble geteilt und lebt in Kyjiw und Köln.

Zusammen mit der in Köln lebenden Musikerin Tamara Lukasheva (Jazzpreis der Stadt Köln 2018, WDR Jazzpreis 2021) präsentiert das Ensemble ein neues Programm, das aus einer Kombination von Stücken ihres im letzten Jahr veröffentlichten Albums Seasons und A-cappella-Stücken des Ensembles besteht. Die subjektive Wahrnehmung der Jahreszeiten, die Tamaras Kompositionen zugrunde liegt, trifft auf eine uralte Tradition, die durch mehrere Generationen hindurch kristallisiert wurde. Das Individuelle tanzt neben dem Kollektiven.

https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/media/ohr-zur-welt-ukrainische-polyphonie/

https://tamaralukasheva.de

Klingt so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOhiysLJlY

Tamara Lukasheva - Vocals “Dyvyna” Ensemble - Vocals

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The folklore ensemble Dyvyna was founded in late 1998 at Donetsk National University and remained active there until the start of the Russian occupation in 2014. The ensemble’s repertoire includes Ukrainian folk songs of various genres, most of which were recorded during folklore expeditions in the Donetsk region. Today, the ensemble is split between Kyiv and Cologne.

Together with Cologne-based musician Tamara Lukasheva (City of Cologne Jazz Prize 2018, WDR Jazz Prize 2021), the ensemble presents a new program consisting of a combination of tracks from her album Seasons, released last year, and the ensemble’s a cappella pieces. The subjective perception of the seasons, which underlies Tamara’s compositions, meets an ancient tradition that has crystallized over several generations. The individual dances alongside the collective.

https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/media/ohr-zur-welt-ukrainische-polyphonie/

https://tamaralukasheva.de

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Venue:

LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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