Music: M.Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: K.Balmont 1886
English translation: I.Weirich 2010
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025
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SCORPION

I am encircled by a ring of fire.
It draws nearer, I am doomed to die.
For being born hideous.
For being a wretched scorpion.

The worst for me, however, is the breath of eternal fire.
I am driven by one impulse only, the painless.

My enemies watch me from all sides.
Like a nightmare, fateful and inescapable.
There is no way out, I am surrounded by death.
I am enclosed within a sea of flames.

I die. So be it, then. I appeal to destiny.
I found death within myself.
I die as a scorpion - proud and free.

Music: M.Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: K.Balmont 1886
English translation: I.Weirich 2010

СКОРПИОН

Я окружен огнем кольцеобразным,
Он близится, я к смерти присужден, -
За то, что я родился безобразным,
За то, что я зловещий скорпион.

Но вот, хоть все ужасней для меня
Дыханья неотступного огня,
Одним порывом полон я, безбольным,

Мои враги глядят со всех сторон,
Кошмаром роковым и неотвязным, -
Нет выхода, я смертью окружен,
Я пламенем стеснен, многообразным.

Я гибну. Пусть. Я вызов шлю судьбе,
Я смерть свою нашел в самом себе,
Я гибну скорпионом - гордым, вольным.
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from Artificial Intelligence, track released March 27, 2025

Scorpion

Sonnet 144 (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2009
Lyrics: William Shakespeare 1609
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.

But being both from me, both to each friend,
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:

Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2009
Lyrics: William Shakespeare 1609

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На радость и печаль, по воле рока,
Два друга, две любви владеют мной:
Мужчина светлоокий
И женщина, в чьих взорах мрак ночной.

Mеня низвергнуть в ад кромешный,
Стремится демон ангела прельстить,
Eго увлечь своей красою грешной
И в дьявола соблазном превратить.

Мои друзья - друзья между собою,
Кто победит, но доброго не жду.
Мои друзья - друзья между собою,
И я боюсь, что ангел мой в аду.

Но там ли он, - об этом знать я буду,
Когда извергнут будет он оттуда..

Music: Maria Marachowska 2009
Lyrics: William Shakespeare 1609
Translation: Samuil Marshak

from Artificial Intelligence, track released May 8, 2025

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Sonnet 144

Eldorado (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2014
Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe 1849
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,’ said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?’

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

Music: Maria Marachowska 2014
Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe 1849
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from Artificial Intelligence, track released May 8, 2025

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Eldorado

Sad Song (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: Sergeij Jessenin 1925
Translation: Iris Weirich 2010
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

The snow storm is weeping, like gipsy violins.
Dear maiden, wicked smile. A game.
Does the fair blue glimpse lead me to silence?
Much do I need, and don’t need much.

We are so far away, not alike at all.
You are young, I have lived through all.
The young ones' luck - the memory, miserable
to me at night in the snow storm and in the snow.

Nobody is tender to me. The tempest - my violin.
Your smile is snowing through my heart, and falls through it.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: Sergeij Jessenin 1925
Translation: Iris Weirich 2010

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Плачет метель, как цыганская скрипка
Милая девушка, злая улыбка,
Я ль не робею от синего взгляда?
Много мне нужно и много не надо.

Так мы далеки и так не схожи
Ты молодая, а я все прожил.
Юношам счастье, а мне лишь память
Снежною ночью в лихую замять.

Я не заласкан - буря мне скрипка.
Сердце метелит твоя улыбка.

Музыка: Мария Мараховска 2010
Стихи: Сергей Есенин 1925
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from Artificial Intelligence, track released May 6, 2025

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Sad Song

Actor (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2013
Lyrics: William Shakespeare 1596
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;

So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might.

O! learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2013
Lyrics: William Shakespeare 1596

from Artificial Intelligence, track released May 21, 2025

Actor

Children of the Night (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2013
Lyrics: D.S. Merezhkovsky 1894
Translated by Edmund Grinbaldt
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

Riveting our eyes
On the blanching east,
Children of sorrow, children of night,
We wait, to see if our prophet shall come.

We are scenting out the unseen,
And, with hope in our hearts,
Dying, we grieve
Over uncreated worlds.

Our speech is daring,
But condemned to die
Are the too early precursors
Of a too tardy spring.

Resurrections of the buried
And the rooster’s song
In the middle of the deep night,
Morning’s cold — they are us.

We are the steps above the abyss,
Children of murk, awaiting the sun:
Once we see the light, as shadows,
We shall perish in its rays.

Our speech is daring,
But condemned to die
Are the too early precursors
Of a too tardy spring.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2013
Lyrics: D.S. Merezhkovsky 1894
Translated by Edmund Grinbaldt

from Artificial Intelligence, track released May 21, 2025

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Children of the Night

Wise (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2007
Lyrics: Konstantin Balmont 1902
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

I do not keep ready any wise sayings for other people,
I only include brisk volatility in my verses.
Each fleeting moment makes me perceive worlds
In which the rainbow plays an alterable dream.
Let it be, you wise men, do not curse me! What am I worth to you?
Since I am only a small cloud, nothing but a small cloud,
Chasing across the sky, bright as fire in the light.
And calling for the dreamers...But I do not call out to you!

Music: Maria Marachowska 2007
Lyrics: Konstantin Balmont 1902

from Artificial Intelligence, track released April 23, 2025

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Wise

Moonlight (New English Version)
Music: Maria Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: Konstantin Balmont 1894
Mastering: Maria Marachowska 2025
Cover: Maria Marachowska 2025
Made by suno (Generative artificial intelligence)
2025

As soon as Moon flashed through dark of night
With its thin sickle, so gentle and brilliant,
Another world is craved with all my heart,
Bewitched by all that's boundless and distant.
I greedily drink this ever-palled brightness,
A tiny elf I swing in nets of rays,
I hear what tells me the utter silence.
To woods, to peaks, by dazzling snows covered!
Like a sick spirit, I'm in dreamy flight.
I'm waked up for the world, the peaceful one and quiet,
And mildly cry and breathe with fresh Moonlight.
I am afar from all my people's fussiness,
I am a stranger for all earthly strains,
I'm breath of wind, a cloud far in highness.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2010
Lyrics: Konstantin Balmont 1894

from Artificial Intelligence, track released June 2, 2025
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Moonlight

"SILVER WAY" "СЕРЕБРИСТАЯ ДОРОГА" (Music: Maria Marachowska 2007, Lyrics: Sergeij Jessenin 1917) LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC HD CONCERT on 11.02.2023, 1am Berlin (Music, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Video & Editing & Sound & Photo: Maria Marachowska 2023)

CONCERT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuDh9rr58Y&t=1092s

SILVER WAY /СЕРЕБРИСТАЯ ДОРОГА

Silver way and bright stars, /Серебристая дорога,
alas, their easter light /Ты зовешь меня куда?
glaring from the far side of heaven, /Свечкой чисточетверговой
whither it's calling, I don't know. /Над тобой горит звезда.

Does it warm grief or joy, /Грусть ты или радость теплишь?
does it lead me to madness? /Иль к безумью правишь бег?
Please help that the snow of today /Помоги мне сердцем вешним
brings love into my mind. /Долюбить твой жесткий снег.

Afterglow shall be with me on the sleigh, /Дай ты мне зарю на дровни,
the willow already swaying the reins, /Ветку вербы на узду.
I would like to ask for the grace /Может быть, к вратам Господним
to be led to heaven. /Сам себя я приведу.

Music: Maria Marachowska 2007
Lyrics: Sergeij Jessenin 1917
English translation: Iris Weirich 2010

#mariamarachowska #siberianblues

Silver Way

"SILENCE" "МОЛЧАНЬЕ" (Music:Maria Marachowska 2011, Lyrics: Anna Akhmatova 1915) from LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC HD CONCERT on 11.02.2023, 1am Berlin (Music, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Video & Editing & Sound & Photo: Maria Marachowska 2023)

CONCERT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuDh9rr58Y&t=1092s

I have ceased to smile,
the wind chills my mouth,
this hope is destroyed,
Soon a new song will confess itself.

Without intention I donate this song
to scorn and ridicule, to the bad joke,
since the silence of love
fills the soul with unbearable grief.

Music:Maria Marachowska 2011
Lyrics: Anna Akhmatova 1915
Translation: Iris Weirich 2011

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Я улыбаться перестала,
Морозный ветер губы студит,
Одной надеждой меньше стало,
Одною песней больше будет.

И эту песню я невольно
Отдам на смех и поруганье,
Затем, что нестерпимо больно
Душе любовное молчанье.

Music:Maria Marachowska 2011
Lyrics: Anna Akhmatova 1915
Translation: Iris Weirich 2011

#mariamarachowska #siberianblues

Silence

"HEART" "СЕРДЦЕ" Instrumental (Music: Maria Marachowska 2009, Lyrics: J.W. Goethe 1775) LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC HD CONCERT on 11.02.2023, 1am Berlin (Music, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Video & Editing & Sound & Photo: Maria Marachowska 2023)
CONCERT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuDh9rr58Y&t=1092s

Heart

**Creative and Versatile Artist with a Unique Musical Vision**

Maria Marachowska is a Berlin-based musician, composer, painter, graphic designer, and blogger, renowned for her innovative creation of "Siberian Blues," a groundbreaking music style that masterfully blends deliberate slowness with ecstatic speed. Her deep, resonant voice and evocative soundscapes invite listeners into a meditative experience, where poetic narratives—drawn from her own inspirations and world literature—transform emotions into art. With a focus on creating immersive atmospheres that resonate deeply with audiences, Maria's work transcends traditional boundaries, offering a fresh perspective in the music industry.

Her artistic journey reflects a commitment to exploring the interplay of silence and sound, allowing each note to linger and evoke long-forgotten feelings. As a multifaceted creator, she seamlessly integrates visual art with music, enhancing her storytelling through graphic design and painting. Maria's unique approach not only captivates but also fosters emotional connections, making her an asset in any creative environment.

With an unwavering passion for artistic expression and collaboration, Maria Marachowska is poised to contribute her distinctive voice and visionary artistry to projects that seek to challenge conventions and inspire profound emotional experiences.

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Maria Marachowska (musician, composer, painter, graphic designer, blogger) works & lives in Berlin. Early ancestors from Ireland (Cork, Munster, Connacht) & Cornwall England (mother's side) and later they moved to Sweden, to Germany, Finland, to Lithuanian, to Poland & to Russia, they were aristocrats and fled to Siberia to survive. And from my father's side French and British settlers who moved to Siberia later. 

With her "Siberian Blues" Maria Marachowska has created an entirely new music style. Its strength lies precisely in the alternation between two opposite and equally stirring ways of expression: on the one hand the deliberate slowness that leaves room to the tones and allows them to linger on in the silent pauses, and on the other hand the always increasing ecstatic speed amounting to a trance-like, almost shamanic outburst. In her music and the soft timbre of her deep singing voice, this blue haze, that is Blues, takes on the shape of figures and moods, forms poetic words either from her own pen or inspired by world literature, and seems almost meditative. Whoever gets into this unique experience of "Siberian Blues" submerges far under the surface and comes across long lost feelings and emotions. This particular energy is transferred to the listener and has a cathartic effect.
The melody speaks, we believe to hear a continuous echo to her singing voice on her guitar, she is capable of a playing technique that in a wondrous way conveys the acoustic illusion of hearing several instruments out of one. In the general effect, there is no need of any other instrument but this single guitar, to produce the drive of a band. It is as if the tones were falling from a distant star, as William S.Burroughs described the divine power of music in his “Cities of the Red Night“.

Maria Marachowska, born on July 21st, 1980 in Omsk/ Siberia (Russia), spent her early childhood in Estergom/ Hungary (1980-1985) and in 1985 she moved with her family to the historic metropolis Kaliningrad/Königsberg (1985-1998), where she attended the E.T.A. Hoffmann music school for highly gifted children/ instrument: piano/1989-1993. In 1998, she returned to her native city Omsk/ Siberia (1998-2000) for a period of 2 years to complete her studies of fine arts. Since 2000 she has been living in Germany, since 2004 in Berlin, where she has also newly discovered music for herself in addition to her work as a fine artist and has created her personal, innovative music style of SIBERIAN BLUES. In 2007 she recorded her 1st album with 1st songs. In 2012 she released Album "HEART" (12 Songs). Although a convinced solo artist, she has also collaborated and performed with renowed musicians in the course of her professional career, i.a. with German music producer, film composer and bassist Micki Meuser (Micki Meuser is a German bass player, studio musician (Charlie Mariano) and music producer for bands such as Die Ärzte, Ideal, Ina Deter, Lemonbabies, among others) who has recorded and mixed her solo albums "EMOTIONS" (2015) and "STRANGER" (2016) and from 2016 - 2017 she recorded album "SILENCE" (2017) with British music producer, film composer and exceptional Hammond player Alan Reeves (Alan Reeves is a British film composer, music producer, and Hammond B3 virtuoso. In the course of his career he has received 35 international awards, including a Goldene Schallplatte. He became known for his work with the bands The Showtimers and Clinic as well as for the music for the films To Walk with Lions, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, and Kill Bill Vol. 2. He has appeared with, among others, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, The Animals, The Who, Jimmy Page, David Bowie and The Beatles).

Since 2017 she is a member of GEMA and has submitted more than 200 songs and 300 instrumental compositions. In 2017 she released her solo album "MELANCHOLY". In 2018 she recorded by herself solo album "ABSTRACT DADA". Driven by an untiring creative energy, she constantly continues to develop and share her new musical work on various music and social media platforms both as carefully edited sound recordings and live transmissions and in the form of artistic music videos & albums created by herself. Text: Iris Weirich