Stone of the Spring – Music Video Premiere

Together with DRUK Kharkiv, we are hosting the first pre-premiere in Berlin of the music video “Stone of the Spring” («Стільки дощу не вмістить жодна весна» – “No Spring Can Hold This Much Rain”) by the Ukrainian children’s choir KapustaBand.

Lyrics: Serhiy Zhadan, “No Spring Can Hold This Much Rain”
Music: Anna Minakova, founder and director of the HOSS choir from Kharkiv
Director: Serhii Bilozerov
Special guest: Serhiy Zhadan
Project lead: Mariika Kapusta

The music video is dedicated to the memory of Kharkiv artist, sculptor, musician and defender of Ukraine Anton Derbilov, who was killed in combat in the Luhansk region in spring 2023.

We warmly invite you to experience this first pre-premiere with us and to hear an incredible story – deeply moving and at the same time striking in its strength. It is a story about a sincere childhood dream of singing; about the “Magical Ukrainian Tour” that led from the yellow brick road all the way to Sir Paul McCartney; about the creative search behind the song “Stone of the Spring”, which came into being almost at the same moment as the terrible news of an unimaginable tragedy for Kharkiv – Anton Derbilov’s death at the front. It is also a story of “not-so-accidental” coincidences and intertwined fates, of daring adventures during the shoot, and of Anton Derbilov’s handmade tin soldiers – for it was these very soldiers that ultimately became the meaning and concept of the video.