With BRACHLAND, Maria Palatine returns to basics,

to the nakedness of the moment, accompanied only by her harp

and her voice. A multifaceted, wandering voice that travels between French, German, English, and Spanish—like a free wind that crosses borders, caresses inner landscapes, and sows seeds of emotion.

 

Brachland — this German word evokes vague land, these open, untamed, fallow spaces. These are places without masters, without constraints, where what we call weeds grow freely. But are they really weeds, or simply a life we hadn't planned for? From these abandoned soils, a wild, unexpected, essential beauty sometimes emerges.

 

Like these lands, Maria's music breaks free from fixed forms. It breathes, it listens to silence, it welcomes the unexpected. It has no purpose other than to be there, in its pure presence. Each note becomes a clearing, each breath an escape.

 

Brachland is a manifesto of fruitful uselessness, a plea for the interstices, for those areas of shadow and light where the imagination can finally wander without a map or compass.

It is an invitation to lose oneself... perhaps in order to find oneself better.