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Hilarious Disasters

Hilarious Disasters is a band formed in 2023 by Ukrainian pianist, improviser, composer, and journalist Kateryna Ziabliuk. The seemingly contradictory directions present on the band's music intertwine through free improvisation, like in a large sandbox, where the band has ample space for daring and witty experiments. This allows Hilarious Disasters to be a flexible group, open to change, which reinterprets its compositions over and over again during lively live performances, searching for new, fresh forms for them. The program was largely inspired by the leader's travels between Italy, Ukraine, and Poland over the past few years

Hilarious Disasters: Unnatural Root

by Ian Patterson
April 22, 2026

You can take the gal out of Ukraine, but you cannot take Ukraine out of the gal. Kateryna Ziabliuk may pursue her music in Poland these days,  but with Unnatural Root, the debut album of her group Hilarious Disasters, Ziabliuk draws deeply from her Ukrainian traditions. The Kyiv-born pianist, composer and journalist--she co-founded the jazz portal ...

Unnatural Root

By Hilarious Disasters

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Nichka Petrivochka; Corto Maltese I: tutti parlano dei furboni milanesi; Interludio: me ne andrò così; Corto Maltese II: Błahostki na Józefa; Interludio: una ballata del mare salato; Corto Maltese III: Lottery for an Ignorant; Try Zhury; Interludiia Na Proshchannia; Nido (Lorca); Le Fragole; Coda - Kryvy Tanec; Happy People.