The debut album from jazz singer Anna Margolina is a personal remembrance of her immigration story from Minsk to Berlin. After 30 years since her arrival, it shares Anna`s experience of abandonment and loneliness, the search for new identity and a sense of belonging, the conflict with the demons of her past and the redeeming kindness of strangers along the way. The transformative episodes of her life are to be heard in these 8 moving and melody-driven pieces, composed and arranged by fellow world wanderer Conor Cantrell and beautifully framed by the musical talents of Kenneth Berkel (piano), Lisa Buchholz (flugelhorn), Hendrik Nehls (bass) and David Guy (drums). More than ever, there is need for a hopeful story of arrival. “One Endless Night” was released in 2023 at XJAZZ!Music.

Anna Margolina was born into a musical family in Minsk where she lived until the age of 8. In 1992 her mother set out on a journey of no return to Berlin, changing the course of fate dramatically. For many years, Anna struggled to adapt to the mentalities surrounding her, finding it difficult to feel true connection. The singer defines this search as the center of her musical career. Throughout her life she has been no stranger to the stage, first performing at the age of 9 with her mother. Since then Anna has toured with the famous Andrej Hermlin Big Band, performed in 15 cities across Germany with her "Jazz, Swing & Yiddish Songs” program, produced an online jazz series during the pandemic (“Old Fashioned Sleepless Nights” on YouTube), has sold out concerts with her ensemble, and is now releasing her debut album.

The album explores the experience of not belonging, of confronting a new culture, receiving love from strangers and grappling with experiences of abandonment. In examining these ideas, the singer looks back on a year that changed her personality fundamentally. Anna Margolina recorded this album with her loyal and versatile colleagues - Kenneth Berkel (piano), Hendrik Nehls (double bass), David Guy (drums) and featured guest Lisa Buchholz (flugelhorn). In addition to their exceptional skills as musicians, they all add their individual sound as artists and provide glimpses into their own life´s story. The Irish composer, Conor Cantrell, studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance U.K and is currently living in Berlin. His familiarity with the search for identity in new surroundings played a crucial role in this collaboration. His sensitive and melody-driven compositions and lyrics are based on many long and intense conversations, allowing the album to become a fully autobiographical work. The eight songs describe episodes from the singer's life. Her story has been beautifully transformed into words and sounds, opening up a much broader perspective, than that of a typical biography.