Like K-pop, but B-pop — singer Palina Dabravolskaya recorded a new album in Belarusian and Polish
Singer, director, and actress Palina Dabravolskaya (CHORNABROVA) presented her full-length album M.I.L.A . — in it, she sings in Belarusian and Polish, thus painting a picture of her life as an emigrant in Poland, caught between two cultures.
But in this release, anyone will find something about themselves, no matter where they come from or where they are going.
The album contains much about searching for oneself and one's roots, about the feeling of coldness in a foreign land, comparable to the coldness of a dead body. But there's also plenty of self-irony and sharp teeth bared to show Belarusians not just from the perspective of convenience and quietness. We can stand up for ourselves and our own, and we won't remain silent when things get tough, the artist asserts.
Palina states that the album can easily be called Belarusian pop: there's K-pop, so let there be B-pop too. But this is not a mono-genre work — it contains elements of hip-hop and electronic music. Additionally, the author's theatrical side is vividly expressed — the album features documentary audio recordings.
M.I.L.A was created in co-authorship with Palina's wife. And one of the tracks, Bies, was recorded together with the Belarusian women's choir "Spievy" (Songs), of which the artist herself is a member.
This is Palina's fourth album. The first two — "Slova" (Word) and "Sarmatia" — were written in Belarusian, while the third, "COMA", was entirely in English. By the way, Dabravolskaya also created a musical drama performance of the same name, "Sarmatia", based on Maria Martysevich's text.
Palina Dabravolskaya is a graduate of the Academy of Arts. Before emigration, she worked as an actress in the capital's "Territory of Musical" and also directed her own plays ("The Room is Dying", "God Rides a Bicycle", "Sviciaź"). In Poland, she has already presented "Sarmatia", "I'll Leave the Forest, Pull Out My Spine, and It Will Serve Me as a Sword", "Ryk".
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