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Kateryna Ziabliuk: 23 Ways To Forget Oneself

By Ian Patterson
March 5, 2025
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The cryptically titled "23 Ways To Forget Oneself" will, if given the attention it deserves, spirit the listener away from their daily concerns—perhaps even forgetting themselves along the way—for just under nine minutes. Kateryna Ziabliuk works her keys like a sculptor, chiseling surely but steadily, gradually revealing a form—her increasingly fluid lines tinged with Ukrainian folk melodies, and briefly tipping a wink to Thelonious Monk. There is something of Keith Jarrett in Ziabliuk's improvisation, the way her left hand maintains a mantra-like rhythmic course while her right gathers momentum, jabbing, tumbling and soaring, slowly petering out and resolving softly. From the album Live at the Enjoy Jazz Festival (Self Produced, 2021)

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