The "Bardo" concerts are an audiovisual entity, each time taking a different form. The sound is accompanied by improvised microscopic visualizations by artist Marek Hajduk .
"This album is an archive of experiences such as death, disease, and loss. It's the description of my real emotions that I would actually like to forget. But it's also the hope, looking for the sun behind the horizon, although I don't really know if it's there. This album is my symbolic release from darkness. It is also reflected in the title ("Bardo" - from Sanskrit "intermediate state", usually a state between life and the next incarnation). I chose this word for the title of my first album at the age of 12. Shortly afterwards I also knew what the cover would be. It features my parents, a photo from 1994 that was very important to my mother. It also illustrates the transition, because of the arrangement that black and white make. It was difficult for me to tease out what is in this music. It brings me sadness rather than joy, but it was a necessary part of my transformation. One thing I am proud of, however, is that I have managed to remain completely independent, and to be able to afford it I decided to start my own label, Maja Laura Records. The forms and means contained in Bardo are very diverse, ranging from simple cameral arrangements (piano, strings) to synthesizer ride. In creating all of this, I didn't think about it being music that fit within a genre, I just focused on the emotions. It's only 37 minutes long, but more would be too heavy for me. The album was produced by Maciej Cieslak (Scianka, where I also played recently), and me. We understand each other very well, I knew he was the only person I could approach this with. And here it is at last, "Bardo." Although I know that this death will stay with me forever, it is precious to me that sharing this music allows for some kind of meeting. There have already been several such encounters and for that I am grateful. I invite you to listen to it." - Maja Laura
Lavender Brown is the second track announcing Mai Laura's debut album titled. „Bardo”. It is a breaking of old attachments, a manifestation of a free emotional spurt and a combination of three stories, including two true ones. The untrue one concerns the titular Lavender from the Harry Potter series. Although, as Dumbledore says in Deathly Hallows: "Of course it's going on in your head, Harry, only where on earth do you get the conclusion that, in view of that, it's not really happening?
Feldman’s Voicing Resonance is the first track announcing Maja Laura’s debut album Bardo. It is a picture of profoundly dark emotions connected with love, death and a final farewell. Very simple, but the heaviest item of the album, which shows what power respecting space can have. A piece of sounds from the work is taken from Morton Feldman’s, american XXth century classical composer, score (he’s one of the beloved Maja Laura’s creators). Then the melody and following harmony came, the scatterd ugly synth, and other sounds that are little voices from hell. Also the video is very significant for this work, creation of polish visual artists who ideally connected with the essence of the music. The sculpture's disintegrating body parts and its fragile nature are a picture-perfect description of the piece. Bardo (single) Bardo is the third track announcing Mai Laura's album of the same title. It is the last stage of the transition ("Bardo" - from Sanskrit "intermediate state") that this album symbolizes. The piece is quite simple instrumental form (piano, strings), which creates a contrast to the artist's previous proposals. You can also hear here the light and hope that did not appear in previous works. The text is inspired by the phrase "dropping away body and mind" used by Roshi Yakusho Kwong to describe the essence of Zen practice ("Without beginning, without end: the intimate heart of Zen").