The new album "Cosmic Calendar" by Ukrainian pianist and composer Marina Baranova once again emphasises the all-round quality of the musician. As with her previous albums "Atlas of Imaginary Places" and "White LeGers", she composed her latest work herself. The pianist grew up in a musical family: Her mother taught classical music, her father jazz. As a result, she came into contact with two different musical worlds from an early age and learned the art of improvisaNon. As a highly talented pianist, who first learnt her craP in her home town of Kharkiv and later mastered it at the University of Hanover, she plays her instrument with a natural ease. She also has a natural synaestheNc talent, which means the ability to see sounds as colours. All this together makes Marina Baranova's music something very special. The album "Cosmic Calendar" is, on the one hand, a philosophical reflecNon on the creaNon of our universe and, on the other, a profound journey into the innermost thoughts of Marina Baranova herself.
She has composed a piece for each month of the year. In this way, she imagines the history of our universe - from the Big Bang to the emergence of life and the people in it."Each month stands for a significant milestone and at the same Nme shows parallels to personal development," writes the pianist in the album's booklet, explaining further: "It describes different phases, such as the liberaNon of limitless possibiliNes through the Big Bang (ParNcles of Freedom), the cooling down process (Becoming Transparent) leading to clear perspecNves, self-knowledge (The Inner Gravity), a sense of "flow" amidst countless possibiliNes (Gliding on the Milky Way),the abandonment of beliefs and the feeling of sadness (Requiem for a Supernova), to the birth of hope (Birth of the Sun), the romanNc relaNonship between the earth and the moon (CelesNal Serenade), the formaNon of the vital ozone layer (Air) and finally the emergence of humanity (You and me and everything around us)."

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