Maria Burmaka. Saundtreky. (Soundtracks)

Maria Burmaka said about the new album that every song here was an echo of real stories from her life – as it always happens to all real songs, doesn't it? And there is no doubt about authenticity of these songs – this can be felt, this is nice. And if one perceives every such life story as a sort of a film – actually, the quite logical title for the disc appears, "Soundtracks". Briefly, it is possible to say that the new album by Maria Burmaka is an example of the high-quality and, if you wish, intelligent modern Ukrainian pop-music as it might be. Nothing to say, it is good when not only an album has its own face, but – every song in it. And not only due to contents of the lyrics, as imagery of music is also important, whatever you might say. And in "Soundtracks" you hear with your own ears that exactly as much attention was paid to each song as it was necessary – not less. As a result, there arises something more than conditional ideality – saturated sounding, appropriateness of all details appear then. In other words – these are truly real, live songs. And that is why they directly touch something live within you – there are no masks, everything is honest. We could say that Maria has arrived at the sense-contents-realization of art, with which she once began – but at a qualitatively higher level, with some fresh internal force. As to me – a wonderful course of events.