Blebba Grows, by Maya Keren

Blebba Grows

by Maya Keren

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1.	NYC bebe 05:27	lyrics
something in my mind I don't know what to say nothing to do, wait give it to me don't don't break and what's new still stealing I don't believe I caught your name in a new city got no shows! everyone's busy so it goes // something in my mind I don't know what to do god... a movement, anything it goes beneath me when I play anyways I don't know I can't believe I did the things I say my friends save me, ahhhh! in a new city got no shows everyone's busy so it goes
2.	living naturally 03:16
3.	b urs 02:31	lyrics
if you told me write a song it would be yours if you said to me at last I know you're going to if you had wanted me if you had wanted anything I told you everything I needed I said I loved you I spoke to you today I said I loved you if you told me I was done
4.	abundant light 02:27
5.	it would 02:08
6.	purple 00:27
7.	friends I know 04:55	lyrics
let me see the words above you things I know you know them too the words are above you see it now let me see the things about you december brings me twenty-two I don't really know you see it now (words of a turning table turn towards whirring eternal wars against the world dreaming about the wandering before fearing a falling future with me, oh my love!)
8.	clear windows 03:18
9.	sara AC 04:02	lyrics
in the quiet shudder between my AC breathing beneath in the night hold me don't let go now don't tell each other secret things holding each other's horrible dreams we take our time, don't we? you just looking at me like Sara I believe

about

"It was the last day of August 2020 that Maya Keren and I became roommates in a small apartment in Somerville. After months of careful, distanced hangs in the woods outside our parents’ houses, we were finally sharing a home. That first afternoon we ran to the river and looked at the waterbirds, ate burnt quesadillas. It was late that night, sleepy, leaning softly over a child-sized guitar, that Maya showed me ‘Friends I Know.’ The oldest song on the album, its first body was a sweet, clear tapestry of what we knew to be obvious: the constancy of old friendship, a desire for new and unburdened love.

Much of Blebba Grows is an exploration in instability: the casual loneliness and isolation of early adulthood, the fragility of new relationships and the vulnerability they bring. Balanced with the album’s hazy freneticism, though, is a feeling of stability; this music centers around the simple and constant practice of returning home. It reminds me of the safety I felt in Maya’s new room, listening to them sing quietly on our first night."

- Maya Rabinowitz

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I wrote this album mostly in the last six months after moving to Brooklyn. In the midst of this turbulent new era, the process of caring for each emerging song, learning how to record myself with the mics on hand (a Zoom H4, an SM 58, my apple earbuds, and voice memos,) and checking off each box on my logistical to-do list grounded me. Whenever I was feeling frustrated about seemingly futile attempts to “get gigs” or “play with people” (or even to have plans on a Friday night) the daily practice of crafting this album offered a powerful feeling of purpose, momentum, and ultimately, comfort.

Blebba Grows is a promise to myself, a continuing testament to the power of following what feels good and right in the face of so many resistant forces: the fraught entanglement of capitalism with art-making, worries about being perceived as cool or hot in this ultra cool-hot city, insecurities about not being somewhere or something I imagined I could/would be. It is a glimpse into a slow, patient simmering, many afternoons of picking up the guitar and just playing something.

“Blebba” is what my friend Jeff christened himself senior year of college, and is what my friends and I have since adopted as an absurd term of endearment. I still feel a slight tinge of embarrassment to have named the album Blebba Grows but my hope is that this name prevents me or anyone who says it from being able to participate in the aforementioned “cool-hot” aesthetics.

These songs are little rooms of love. To my friends, who save me, to my sweet love partner, to myself, and the dreams I earnestly hope to manifest.
Thank you, thank you, for listening.

credits

released April 16, 2023

All tracks written, recorded, and produced (and album and merch art created) by Maya Keren, in Brooklyn, Philly, and Princeton.

"Blebba" was coined by Jeffrey Gordon in 2022

Album production and support by Eden Girma

Mastering by Nico Daglio-Fine

Additional credits:
NYC bebe - drums: Julien Chang
living naturally - voice memo: Akiva Jacobs
friends I know - guitar solo: Jeffrey Gordon, voice memos: Akiva Jacobs, Maya Rabinowitz, Eden Girma, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Lesley Mok, Miranda Agnew, Micah Graves, Camila Nebbia

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Ghost

Apr 2024
morning

Feb 2024
Blebba Grows

Apr 2023

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