Maria Burmaka. My jdemo!

Though this disc presents the best songs composed within the last 15 years, still it is not a usual collection. May be it is not usual because regardless of the age of these songs, one can see a slim and tender girl in each of them, the girl who with the first words of a song and with melodies used to open plainly the hearts of those who wanted to hear, who wanted to hear something different from the common billow of the mass quasi-culture. She did it not with a scalpel of intellect, as a man would have done. She did it the way all women of the world might have done it - with her soul. She keeps doing that now, changing the covers of her albums, changing her styles, changing herself. Those who follow her activities can easily notice that she is constantly going. She is going quickly and slowly, straight and not so straight, finely and as a person of green years, sometimes as a person of silver years, sometimes - through fire and water. But still she is going - that's why everything she experienced long ago lives in her now. That's why there is always the possibility for purity and tenderness in her songs and it is impossible to imagine Maria Burmaka's songs without them. That's the very reason why I say that it is not a usual collection - this is a road. It looks like a short film made of fragments of a full-length film, so that it tells you about the whole, and at the same time it is a very interesting show. It looks like a hearty meeting with a pleasant person.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)