‘Andriy Pokaz's music has incredible power. I even had a thought - if we bring our enemies to this concert, they will realise their helplessness before this power, this phenomenal musical philosophy, which is rooted in the fertile Ukrainian land and touches the heavens, where the daring wind of change roams. And even the composition with the peaceful title ‘Rural Dance’ was imagined as a battle hertz.
After Pokaz Trio's performance, I managed to ask Andriy Pokaz a few questions:
- Please tell us about your new album.
- We are releasing the new album on a Norwegian label, and we will have a step-by-step release: in December we will release a single, in January we will release a single, and in February we will release the full album.
- What will it be about?
- The main song will be a song that has already been released as a single. It's called ‘Voices’. Each song is a certain journey. It's always a story, and thanks to the language of music, each listener perceives it differently, through the prism of their own experience.
- What did the war change in you?
- It gave me a lot of meaning in music and a lot of experiences. I have more things to talk about in music.
All Ukrainians are now growing up faster than in peaceful and calm times. We are changing, we are gaining a lot of new experience. And, of course, I try to reflect this in my improvisations, even in those compositions that appeared before the war.
These musicians are talented conductors of our normalcy. They keep us from losing our minds. If earlier they saved us from everyday life, from boredom, from the predictability of the schedule, now they are a real rehabilitation, a regeneration of the wings that the war is trying to burn.’
- Natalia Kriazh - improvisator.com.ua
