You were at the birth of our band, now join us for the release of our album 'folk fatale' April 2nd!🎉
🪴Album release live birth party: April 2nd at 7pm, @dromtaberna 🪴
💖folk fatale sounds like: girly galavanting, babe-tastic babas, and esoteric eroticism, through bandura, viola, and voice. This is our debut album, which features original creations, and ancient folk bangers in 5 languages!💖
📷@laurenstewartphotos
#albumrelease #torontomusic #bandura #ukrainian #viola
My belated yearly post!
I branched out and kept track of what I read AND watched too. Unhinged right?
However, this list is much shorter this year.
🎉Perhaps because I co-wrote and recorded TWO albums in 2025 as @divkamusic & @daughtersofdonbas 🎉
Did you read any of these? What did you enjoy reading and watching in 2025?
💖Selfie as tax from my Tokyo hotel room.
Books I read in 2025: (in order)
1)🕉Love and Liberation - Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro by Sarah H. Jacoby (thank you Dakinis)
2)🐥The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (had a profound impact on me)
3)🚧Underground by Haruki Murakami (impactful)
4)🚀Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
5)🇰🇷In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
6)🥩Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
7)🇲🇽Idols Behind Altars - Modern Mexican Art & Its Cultural Roots by Anita Brenner
8)🔥Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski
9)🐗The Iliad by Homer (war is horrific, ego, and intangibly senseless. Blame the gods)
10)🌳Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
11)🐣Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
12)🪙 Iron John by Robert Bly
13)👩👦Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
14)💳The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (so funny)
15) 🌅Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (so sad)
16)🌟Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway (wow. Stunning)
17) 🏰Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
18)🧞♀️A Dakini's Counsel by Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje translated by Christina Lee Monson
19)🔦Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Movies watched:
1)Biutiful (very upsetting, still in my mind, made me nauseous)
2)The color of pomegranates (beautiful fever dream)
3)Nosferatu (bounce on it crazy style)
4)Heretic (meh, cool idea though)
5)Gladiator 2 (meh)
6)Conclave (really enjoyed this, ralph is slay)
7)Joker: Folie À Deux (meh, gaga is hot tho)
8)Nightmare Alley (i liked it)
9)Under the Volcano (hard watch)
10) Palm Springs (rewatch)
11)The Wild Robot
12)Wicked
13) Caught Stealing (too violent)
14) The Living Fire
15) Howl's Moving Castle
16) Pans Labrynth
17) THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended edition trilogy
TV watched:
1)Silo S2
2)House of the Dragon S2
3) Plur1bus S1
Rejoice fellow peasants! For today is the birthday of gremlin queen, virile violist and your foxy fiend Zoë 🎂🎉
May today be filled with sunshine, laughter, and some kind of Asian soup 🍜
Photo 1: @garateca
Photo 2: courtesy of tunes and a NYE Tequila shot 🥃
Photo 3: brought to you by "waiting between sets" boredom
Photo 4: also @garateca
#divkamusic
Full 4.5.0 music video out now! Watch this stunning stop-frame animation by Dimitry Nechepurenko at the link in bio.
Performed by Daughters of Donbas
Music by Marichka
Lyrics by Izdryk and Marichka
#bringkidsback #saveukraine
#childrenofwar
Daughters of Donbas is a musical human rights storytelling project, focusing on the war crime of Russia's abduction and forced "re-education" of Ukrainian children.
We're playing at our beloved @dromtaberna October 5th at 6pm
The show is a mix of polyphony, a-traditional string quartet (violin, viola, cello, bass), bandura, and sisterhood.
Tickets on sale at the link in bio!
#slavaukraine #bandura #quartet #ukrainian #saveukraine #bringkidsback #childrenofwar
Snippets of joy this summer.
1) sea to sky retreat centre
2) hanging prayer flags
3) my idea of glamping
4) garden bounty i grew and baby kitty tashi love
5) lake ontario shenanigans with @hey.charlottehill and @mannydendelson taken by @bethmisener
6) @functionallyvi made me a cowl and i adore it
7) to adore you both is a door into myself @khyentse
8) kisses forever @bethmisener
9) shhh
10) good girls
11) post dharma hang with my beloved dharma sisters
12, 13) raccoon is life
14) @parkmarjo straddle forever
15) @divkamusic and @ladidalina and @low.wen at work. I love my job.
16) pure summer past from @ilab.6
17) @marichka_450 kitty time
18) blood moon in new zealand, auspicious
19) passed out on retreat centre floor
20) talking politics over tacos in oaxaca
🍯@honeypawband & @divkamusic are coming to @dromtaberna !!!
🐝Honeypaw, the Lithuanian-Finnish duo, explores the deep forest roots of their heritage through neofolk compositions on ancient stringed instruments and soundscapes.
🧙♀️ DIVKA weaves folk songs into bold arrangements for bandura, viola and voice. Their music draws from women's traditions from Ukraine and Eastern Europe, and adds a large dose of sass.
🪄Honeypaw & DIVKA are inviting you into forest and memory on Ukrainian Independence Day, August 24th @2pm .
🪷tickets on sale at the link in DIVKA's bio🪷
They are cheaper in advance 😉
#honeypaw #divkamusic #kantele #jouhikko #bandura #viola #Lithuania #ukraine #finland #torontomusic #torontoevents #livemusic #folkmusic #globalsound
