Maria Balabaş is one of those characters you don’t really know exactly how to define: much more of a fragment than a continuous line, color more then work method. The parents told her: “music!” and from then on, in a way or another, the sounds made order into her ages (otherwise her ideas upon her own person maight look a bit odd)….first she played the piano, after – she touched the guitar…in a folkish way; after that she discovered the writing table and she started to write about music, then she cut the magnetic tapes in the radio….long time….after a while, together with her brother and some other good friends, she discovered she can think about music in new ways. Telling the stories she never told before.
It’s about this and about trying to find a way to be personal in a fragmented world.

This piece….a strange mixture of the things with a lot of influence, even I am not always aware of it. But for sure, my everyday life was another 5 years ago. My thoughts also…..I tried to make a sense out of small parts – all with their role in this present.
Of course., the description wouldn’t match exactly the point…..

maria maria: welll…..I used only recordings I did from different events….no connection between them. the fragments had mistakes…those beeeeps or so
maria maria: but I decided to make space for them also
maria maria: most of those musical events had mistakes in the way the organizers considered the music itself
maria maria: after….I took a recording from one of our “concerts”
maria maria: an old romanian romance
maria maria: but it’s only the melodic line that one can recognize
maria maria: the way we played it…..has nothing to do with the song itself
maria maria: the idea…I think….it’s that the SONG is always present during the LIFE
maria maria: no matter how one finds it….
maria maria: and how hidden it is under mistakes and misunderstandings
maria maria: in the end….I felt the need to go out of this line
maria maria: so – I looked for a quote everybody can understand
maria maria: and I found those Bible words
maria maria: but there was also this “nowadays mark”
maria maria: “recorded in Texas…etc”
maria maria: so – this matched also the previous idea
maria maria: and more – it’s not about understanding the words
maria maria: but feeling the voice….maybe
patrick: 🙂
maria maria: the words are not important
maria maria: I didn’t understand nothing of those events
patrick: that is clear
maria maria: haha

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