26.04 [Lysty Nenadislani] Letters Unsent

Have you ever felt homesick? What is home? Where is it? Or perhaps a better question is: who is it… or even when?

[Lysty Nenadislani] Letters Unsent is an upcoming album by Maria Kebuladze (aka KEBU), a Ukrainian singer and producer from Kyiv. Before releasing this intimate work into the world, the artist invites listeners to experience it live, together. The album is woven from poetry written over the past four years — embracing imperfections and deeply inspired by trip-hop and hauntology. It is layered with granulated soundscapes, fragments of memory, and reflections on life “before and after.”

It is a story of words lost in translation, of messages and emotions dissolving within shifting realities — a collection of diverse experiences bound together by one of humanity’s most devastating creations: war. The performance is accompanied by visuals crafted by Ukrainian artist Hanna Zviagintseva and VJ Mariia Yakovenko, featuring Maksym Kalinichenko’s translations of Maria’s lyrics from Ukrainian into English.

Opening act from Ukrainian sound artist Odarka Zyrko, born in Minsk and raised in Kyiv. Her album A Year in Sounds and Whispers reflects on life, love, and quiet moments, like sunny winter mornings, Berlin’s nature becoming familiar, and the tenderness of memory. It also moves through more unsettling terrains: distorted homesickness, the witnessing of police violence, the spread of war and genocide, social blindness, loss, displacement, and the quiet urgency to act. As a close friend once described it: “a work that is simultaneously hopeless and hopeful.”

While the subject matter is deeply painful, the artists aim to create a space of care — a place where listeners can reflect on instability and loss while sharing small moments of comfort. Tea will be served by the creators of one of Kyiv’s most beloved tea spaces, alongside drinks from the welcoming Hotel Continental — a place that has long nurtured and supported artists under its roof, giving them a stage to be heard.

Doors 18:30
Start 19:30

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