Aimee Bobruk

My name is Aimee Bobruk. I am an American songwriter and performer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was born on the outskirts of Huntsville, Texas at the end of a caliche dirt road named after my grandfather. I spent 15 years in Austin, TX learning to write songs and perform until the day songs and love took me to the edge of the Baltic Sea where I now reside in Denmark. My life’s path is unconventional as is my approach to writing music.

“Malybanchia” is a lost word of native american origin. The first time I read the word it conjured two images - an exotic mystical land or a horrible disease. The more I carried the word with me, the more it became a life theme I would write songs around.

My new album, Malybanchia, will be released as singles in 2024. The songs are inspired by my roadtrip along the Mississippi river and a residency at the childhood home of America’s author, Carson McCullers.

The line on a map is a clear demarcation. The Mississippi river is the cultural vein of the United States. I followed the river. Along the way, I spent three months in Columbus, Georgia reading lines on pages written by McCullers.

If you look up "Malybanchia" you won’t find much. The word is of a different time and of a lost language. Resurrecting the name seemed fitting.

On my journey through the south I’ve felt the juxtaposition of being a modern 21st century woman, surrounded by the heat and ghosts of the past.
The music is my sense. This is my south. Sweet Malybanchia.