Baobab - Albert Saprykin & Antonii Baryshevskyi
93 minutes of electronic live set
Collaboration between SplenDoor to Ukraine (Antonii) & Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (Albert)
The first French edition of The Little Prince (1943) is 93 pages long.
So we play for 93 minutes—turning Saint-Exupéry’s warning inside out.
He says: Pull the baobabs out early, before they take over.
We do the opposite. We let them grow. We feed them.
We cultivate what is strange, excessive, unruly.
Roots that split the ground open.
A kind of becoming that war has forced into many Ukrainians:
the wild self,
the unbearable self,
the necessary self.
Absurd humour.
Hammond growls.
Percussion strikes.
Crooked songs.
Electronic fractures.
A piano that weeps ridiculously.
ba:obab echoes the word “obabich” (обабіч): Ukrainian for “on both sides,” where flanks meet and diverge. Self-identification is possible only through a contact of one’s self with an Other. So that’s what we’re after—
for ourselves, and for anyone who steps into this with us on March 16.
Albert Saprykin - piano, electronics, synths, drums etc
Antonii Baryshevskyi - piano, electronics, synths, drums etc
photo is by Serhii Anishchenko
