"Katia Lubinskaia has this amazing purity of voice that enables her to invent sounds and colors, be it in French, Russian, Brazilian or English, as in such a marvelous composition, such a rare moment of joy as "The Beauty of Daylight", a tune where bass and keyboards, cymbals and guitars answer each other and twirl into a pristine melody, as fragile and fugitive as this beauty that one has to cultivate, both within and in others.

In Russian, her words are almost cutting, like the winter cold that she depicts in "Moroz". But when she recalls on stage the origin of this song, the heavy drinking that some indulge in to get warmer, it is always with a delicate sense of derision and tenderness. With Katia, melancholy is never far away, but always saved by a smile at the right time.
Katia suggests to us that, beyond the seasons of the world, our summers and winters are first and foremost inner creations. The Jazz that she rhymes her songs with is the ideal music to develop the spectrum of her moods, which are also ours." -Ludovic Hary

Katia Lubinskaia and Katia Lubinskaia Quintet
Paris 2012