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music ........................... Mariana Sadovska Björk meets Pete Seeger Mariana Sadovska, now known as the ‘Ukrainian Björk’, was on holiday, hiking in the Carpathian Mountains. She wasn’t a musician back then, and hadn’t planned to become one. But in the mountains, by chance, she heard a woman singing. “It was this traditional, authentic voice; raw, not polished, not trained in a school, just like how women sing in the Carpathian Mountains. I fell so much in love. From that moment, I didn’t understand why, but I really wanted to get in touch with such music. “I was already travelling a lot in the villages, and I never could give a clear answer for why I was doing it; I just felt that I wanted to get to know this culture.” Growing up in western Ukraine in the 70s and 80s, Sadovska had spoken Ukrainian, “but I knew that in the east, it was different. To speak Ukrainian was not cool; it was like a village language. If you wanted a prestigious job, you’d better speak Russian. All this authentic culture was exchanged for a very strange creation, Soviet folklore. They were trying to replace it, and in some places they managed to do it. I grew up with the feeling that they managed to do it everywhere.” Also, “young people were moving to the cities… this traditional passage [of songs], from grandmother to mother, from mother to daughter, was broken. It was very much seen as something uncool.” After discovering that her own mother hadn’t really learned the songs of the previous generation, Sadovska recorded her grandmother and grandmother’s sister singing them, just for her own interest, with no thought of becoming a singer or folk-song collector. She’d studied classical piano, but decided against it as a career, and went to work for a theatre group which had a philosophical interest in “the theatrical element in life, and especially in rituals, and traditional life… Anywhere where we were going to perform, we were trying to get in touch with their traditional culture.” So it seemed like a natural progression when, after her encounter in the Carpathians, Sadovska spent 15 years travelling around rural areas of Ukraine, collecting traditional songs. Her subjects were keen to pass them on, as if they “couldn’t die before they gave their songs to somebody”. She found love songs, and sad songs, but also ritual songs: to bring the spring, to prevent rain during harvest time, or to bless a newly married couple. “To discover that this culture did survive the Soviet era and has nothing to do with the Soviet era - this culture reaches to a very ancient time, before Christianity - it’s like suddenly finding gold in the earth. That’s how I felt. And I felt it was my task to share it with the world outside Ukraine. I always wanted to be a kind of messenger of my culture.” Steve Ramsey Sadovska will perform traditional Ukrainian songs in a modern style, dueting with a ‘German percussionist and electronica specialist’, Wed 22nd April, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, 7.30pm, £12/£10 ....47....
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