«Berlin is a city that has always been condemned to become and never to be», so in 1910 German art critic Karl Scheffler had already written, even if he could not know the tragic future of the city. "Der Traum-a" is a tripartite multimedia composition for electric guitar, classical guitar, soundtracks and live electronics that tells, at its various stages, perhaps one of the most important of these becomings: the transition from the destruction of Berlin through bombings between 1943 and May 1945 until the very first postwar period in July 1945.
The grammatical dichotomy in the title between the German word Traum and the Italian Trauma is the interpretative key of the composition itself. From a personal reflection, I have come to assimilate the destruction/ rebirth of the city to what can be a real post-traumatic processing path that finds a prospect of re-starting in the dream.
Maybe never anywhere as in Berlin the alternate destinies of history came to the meeting. Berlin has experienced continuous transfigurations because of the endless battles that have taken place in its territory and that have made it the protagonist mutating it forever.
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvISomORJnM 
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I would like to thank particularly Flavio Nati for having performed the composition and the Film Archive of Berlin Chronos Media for having kindly let me use their original video reels

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KEBU is a Ukrainian electronic-pop music project — a creative space for the alter ego of multi-genre vocalist and producer Maria Kebuladze from Kyiv. https://soundcloud.com/mariia-kebuladze

KEBU was introduced to the world in 2021 with the indie-folk EP Emotional Tone, where Maria shared songs written during the solitude of the COVID era — just her, her father's guitar, and a worn-out Shure microphone. Passionate about collaboration, Maria recorded her debut EP with a friend and mixed it with the help of two others. Since then, collaborations have remained central to KEBU`s creative journey, bringing more and more talented people into it`s musical orbit.

Blending elements of electronic, acoustic, pop, ethnic, trip-hop, and beyond, KEBU's sound playfully defies categorization — Maria jokingly calls it unpredictable indie. 

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