true picture
Ula Nowak – polskieradio.pl”The album is built on a simple principle: minimal means, maximum meaning…No excess. This is music that demands attentive listening, recorded with intimacy in mind.”
Ula Nowak – Songlines Magazine”True Picture is not just a debut – it is a confident unveiling of an artist whose multicultural sensibility feels both timeless and urgently personal.”
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It’s a rare pleasure to witness how a voice can reach so deeply and directly into the heart and soul...True Picture offers a deeply moving acoustic and aesthetic experience.
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An album on which Veronika touches the heart of the music... With True Picture, she proves that her approach captures the essence of the music in a beautifully and convincing way.
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The effect is impressive […] – we can speak of clean, minimalist songs that are at once respectful of tradition yet redesigned in a fresh way.
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True Picture stands out for its intimate essence.
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Veronika shows that even on her own she has more than enough talent to make an impression.
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Varga sensitively unfolds the multiple layers of meaning within each song.
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Veronika's Hungarian and Greek folk songs blend effortlessly in her sound world, forming a musical landscape that transcends borders.
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Definitely not what I expected from what at first seems like an austere folk album.
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She sings the distinctive Hungarian and Greek vocals, with all their characteristic ornamentation and tonalities, with great, supple skill, in a clear, agile, and convincing voice, with beautiful inflections.
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Veronika’s voice brings the songs to life with technical flexibility and a restrained yet powerful expressive presence.
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The arrangements seem to get more contemporary and even avant garde as the album progresses.
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True Picture is a quietly stunning debut.
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The record reveals a musical language shaped by years of travel between cultures, yet firmly grounded in emotional clarity.
Songlines (review by Ula Nowak)
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Varga's voice alone is a joy to listen to: warm, pure, expressive and emotional.
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The visual aesthetic accompanying the release is in harmony with the sound: delicate, moving, and aligned with the artist’s compelling sensitivity.
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Although the name Veronika is most often interpreted as the Latin ‘true image,’ in her case it certainly also has a Greek meaning: Φέρω (phero) – to carry + νίκη (niki) – victory. With her beauty and sensitivity, she overcomes much darkness.”
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Perfect polyphony and extremely sparse coloring of the melodies.
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Daring, but it works out wonderfully – a serene tranquility, yet is powerful, compelling, and moving.
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Not dance music or Gypsy music from Hungary, but a powerful singer who delivers—let's call it—chanson folk from the land of the Danube in a brilliant and impressive way.
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An album full of longing, pain and Balkan melancholy, arranged by a musician who carries all these emotions within her and knows how to translate them into sounds – an honest, very personal calling card.
Ula Nowak – Songlines Magazine”A strikingly intimate debut – an album that feels less like a collection of songs and more like a finely etched self-portrait.”
True Picture serves as a musical self-portrait highlighting Veronika’s two defining forms of expression: singing and double bass.
"Veronika – my name – means ‘true picture’. This is the essence of the little musical world I’ve created, filled with dreams, nature, femininity, and melodies of love. I share a valuable part of my truest self and the music within me."
The album features traditional Hungarian and Greek songs, arranged in unique interpretations with guest musicians such as Ion Curteanu cimbalom player, Benedek Réti accordeonist, and the a cappella ensemble Lemonokipos (Fruzsina Hódi, Sára Zolnai, Ilka Kisgyörgy).
order your own copy of True Picture
order your own copy of True Picture
Order the physical album from the label’s, CPL-Music webshop
or directly from the artist in email: vv.veronikavarga@gmail.com
Analog photographic illustration for my album
by Luca Markó
For my first album, I envisioned an analogue photographic illustration. This dream was brought to life by Luca Markó, the amazing photographer whose images, to me, perfectly and movingly capture the almost invisible yet deeply significant details of the world.
Softness, tenderness, melancholy, femininity, light and shadow, reflections… Everything the songs carry within them is echoed in the photos as well.
