Maria: “To heal you have to appoint what happens to you. I did it with” Robina “” | Music
‘Amazement’. It is the title of one of Robina’s songs (Robí), the second album of Maria (Maria Bertomeu, Oliva 1998). It is a new voice in the country of Valence. Amazement. It is also the feeling that this record produces for courage, honesty and sincerity in facing the theme of feelings and mental health. It is a touching and at the same time hot disc, based on Valencia’s folklore The MaryWith a natural and flexible voice, they infiltrate with sounds of his generation without losing the root, always clear and patent. Divides in three chapters, breakage, emptiness and love, love and cracks mark the path of hope of acceptance to itself. He presents him to Tradicionàrius on March 21st as part of the Festival Barnasants.
ASK. How was a record born in this way?
ANSWER. The starting point is the last song, “Forgive Mary”. It is a topic that came out on therapy. From here I went back to my thoughts, putting them in order and chapters. It is the advantage of therapy, which helps you to do what costs, observing, defining and detecting. You can’t heal if you don’t call you what happens to you. That’s what I did with the album.
P. So, in this song do you talk to Maria the Youneta?
R. Yes, I speak alone when I was a girl. I didn’t have a memorable childhood, and that’s why the piece is a song for the girl I was. The psychologist asked me to observe the photos of when I was a child, and many are sad, not rich. I’ve always been embarrassing, introverted, serious. I speak on behalf of the people who have hurt you and who have never been asked for forgiveness and I apologize for all these people.
P. Does music healed then?
R. My first psychologist made me the music therapy of Tomatis, which consists in listening to the same song by varying the frequencies. Listen to classical music, Especially MozartFor the effects of its musical structure in the brain and also Gregorian. Music saved my life.
P. Do you solve problems or do you learn to live with it?
R. The problem is not solved, you learn to manage it. It is a record that talks about it. Now I accept myself, rather I suppose it is, and this leads you to respect you and treat you well. Coast. You have to consider yourself as a friend of yours, a friend wouldn’t say certain things, no matter how wrong things you did, you wouldn’t get him bad.
P. Did they treated her as crazy when she was young as a young man?
R. NO. It is also true that I haven’t spoken so far. At that time my parents helped me a lot. The Mileurists were for life, my mother was unemployed and before she did not see me going on therapy, but they understood me and they paid me.
P. He studied music from a young age.
R. Yes, I started with sax in six years, but it was bad. A couple I had was a dolçainer and told me I had a songwriter, and from there I started studying people. I didn’t know him, but I saw my voice in shape. When I sing traditional music, I find myself as if I were at home, it is a genre in which I feel comfortable, in weaving, shades and molds that are mine. When I go out of people, I have to think much more.
P. The naturalness of his voice, not impossible, is one of the record assets.
R. The voice is worked but has come out naturally. In terms of vowel that I worked with specialists, I looked for my development, my resonance, my melisms. I did a study on how my voice is (resonance of the head, face, etc.) and helped me squeeze, climb and not be aphidid. I know my body and my voice. Generally the voice goes without many effects. There is a small distortion and frequency resources, as an experiment, but never influences that they change it.
When I sing traditional music I find myself as if I were at home, I feel comfortable in textures, shades and blooms
P. There are two compositions, “empty, the u of crying” and “consecration”, which move, where almost a chapel sings.
R. They are naked because the second chapter speaks of the void and wanted to convey a sense of emptiness, which is why he sees and guitar. And I wanted to close the same chapter, naked, with voice and piano. It is a very crying, introspective chapter, and this is obtained with little instrumentation, which leads to a closed room. The letters asked.
P. On the contrary, for “anyone who has invented love”, with a liar and sweet letter, there is a very touching electric guitar.
R. Of course, a monster that I am angry for a break, it had to be clear. I had some breaks, but I speak of the general of the breaks.
P. There is also a break in “deliques” and more instrumentation, even electronic.
R. It is an angry, happy and rested song. It is time for the void after the break, when you always ask why, why do you have to happen? Go down. You are sad. “Deliques” is that.
P. It seems contemporary and over time it is rooted in the songs of Valencian Styles, also in “emptiness, that of Crying” USA Quintilles.
R. The song of all the style, like the Joti, is made up of fifth. Usually epitasillabe, even if I don’t fit. It is the structure of singing with Ababa Rhyme. And I do Fandangos, Malaga, a Havener that ends in Chacarera, but the reasons for the palms of the news are equally new. I pay off on people, but I don’t recreate it exactly.
P. There are many Maries in the record.
R. My two Uelas (grandmothers) are called Mary. Ueles shows you. If you can create a woman who was not perfect but a personal example, I would mix my two UEles. I’m not a believer, but it seems incredible that the two are called Mary. It is a very strong name that I didn’t like as a child, but it is not fashionable. I want to do things that I can hear within twenty years, like the name Maria.
P. It speaks of grandmothers more than the grandparents.
R. Uelos are another generation, like Ueles, but they know why they have done things as they have done and understand better than you differently, they better understand the struggle of women, the feminist struggle. They suffered more or less the same things. My Uelas believe that I do the things, even if they have not done them, can help me be a full woman. And it’s not mine, when I searched for information I always saw the same.
P. He studied at the Catarroja Conservatory.
R. TO Dana I didn’t lose anyone dear but I have friends yes. The Catarroja Conservatory has been buried. Patch are now being made, so it will happen again. If a problem is not solved In the root and the responsibility decisions are not made and the people who do not fall will not disappear, we will fall again. And it is a very sad and difficult feeling of explaining who suffered the death of family and friends.
