Maisternia Pisni. Pisni vitru. Solo disc by Natalka Polovynka. (premium release). (Songs of the Wind)

Natalka Polovynka – singer, actress, pedagogue. Art director of Maisternia pisni. By means of theatre and music N.P. creates unique artistic territory of the song development as a category of life, spiritual category. N.P. represents traditional singing in all its genres: ancient sacred songs of Ukraine, traditional Ukrainian song, cants, psalms, Ukrainian classical romance – at the same time N.P. is performer of contemporary academic music and contemporary improvisational music. (information from the official site of the Maisternia Pisni)
It is far not easy to speak about this disc using words – just because at first sight everything is extremely simple here. Only one voice, singing, confession, prayer – and enormous, universal silence, which this voice fills... Fills not even with itself, but – with what lives behind the voice, words, melodies. Lives not in displays, but in some all-embracing and delicate dimension of harmony – while displays are only bridges, transparent filaments sawed through our rough visible world and connecting it with the light that exists beyond light. That is why one feels reluctant to say: "a collection of songs". This is a mono dialogue, the mystery of birth, growth, dying and regeneration – of a person, the soul, the spirit, the world. It is impossible to listen to it without concentration – there must be some internal work done. The silence inside you must correlate with the silence in which this voice sounds – and then it will become your voice, and then this mystery will take place in reality, not in conditioned nooks of the intellect. In the end, these are Songs of the Wind – and that means songs of freedom...