Saxophonist Andrii Barmalii continues to explore the interaction between an artist’s inner world and their surroundings. His new video, directed by Vadym Piniahin, focuses on the search for beauty and inspiration ‘where they seemingly do not exist’
The video is described as a ‘collaborative creative experience’ between Andrii Barmalii and Vadym Piniahin. In it, the saxophonist searches for beauty — or metaphorical flowers — amidst the trash.
‘This work is about a person who, even amid dull scrap, is able to transform the ordinary into something emotional and beautiful. About the ability to see feelings where they seemingly do not exist; to search where no one else would look. It’s about the search for inspiration — about those very flowers that are always nearby, always surrounding you. You just have to allow yourself to feel’, director Vadym Piniahin says.
Andrii Barmalii adds that the new work is the result of ‘a long period of inner reflection’, with the video serving as its culmination and a ‘concentrate’ of his life. The musician may go more than a year without releasing finished compositions; during this time, both his understanding of what a melody represents and he himself evolve.
About Andrii Barmalii’s previous works
In February 2025, Andrii Barmalii released a live recording of the immersive art performance ‘Do Lia’.
‘Do Lia’ consisted of six acts, each functioning as a separate mini-chapter. Together, these parts form a cohesive musical narrative.
According to the storyline, Andrii Barmalii appears as the central character of the narrative — a ‘musical alchemist or scientist who travels through unknown spaces, comes into contact with incomprehensible forces, visits dragons, and constructs a music-reanimator’.
At the concert, Andrii Barmalii presented his debut LP ‘autoportrack’, released in September 2023. The performance of ‘Do Lia’ also featured musicians Oleksandr Yavdyk, Khrystyna Kirik, Yevhen Puhachov, Denys Arkharov, Marian Karpinskyi, and Stanislav Diachenko, as well as the improvisational orchestra Sobornist, which performed the immersive composition ‘Kolyskova buttia’.
