roberta i margarita II
BIO
Artist name: roberta i margarita (Argentina, The Netherlands, Bulgaria)
Album name: bruma: les fables (2023)
Genre: experimental electronic album; the style is exploring the boundaries between electronic pop and modern compositions.
Producer: Emilio Haro
Roberta and Margarita are from Argentina and Bulgaria, respectively. They met in the Netherlands a long time ago. Since then they held a tight friendship, so tight that they started making music from a distance, with one of them living in Buenos Aires and the other living in Amsterdam.
The project began when, one day, Roberta, decided to start a challenge. To compose a song each day for five days. Not a finished song but a seed, which it could be built on. Then Roberta asked Margarita to listen to the projects day by day. Naturally, she sent the first instrumental to Margarita, which she really loved. Roberta impulsively asked her to add some vocals to the instrumental. Margarita did so and fluently, five songs emerged. The collaboration had started.
As for the music, Roberta composes it, while Margarita creates the lyrics and melodies, hums, and sings in Bulgarian, Dutch, Spanish, and English. While Margarita sings folk songs in her free time, Roberta is a film sound designer in her day-to-day life. Her touch creates cinematic atmospheres in the songs, where Margarita’s voice gives them a personal Eastern European sound.
The tunes are fables about biking in Vondelpark, impossible love, lost friendship, unachieved female rights, or simply fables, resembling lullabies for grown-ups. They are avant-garde and minimal, with their roots are deeply grounded in nature. The vocals feel dreamy and folky. The entire album sounds very female and strongly connected to the earth. The song’s spirit breathes behind the ribs of the album like an accordion.
People experience the songs like a nocturnal driving trip, like a playful child song performed in a theater set, like soundscapes… There are insects in the music and nature is present in each tune. As a whole, the album leaves you with a sense of mystery.
