Rebecca Jean Rossi - 'Odessa'
NYC based creative Rebecca Jean Rossi shares a poignant cut of neo-classical music with a deeply personal meaning on ‘Odessa’.
’Odessa’ has everything you want from a contemporary piece of classical music. It moves with a solemn air that opens up a worldless soundtrack to inward and outward reflection. It’s a beautiful piece of music that elegantly glides and gallops through beautifully emotive key,s churning tears of trauma, pain and loss into tears of hope as Rossi explains:
"Odessa" is about the city where my great grandmother was born, and from which she was forced to flee as a young woman after a violent Pogrom in 1905. She arrived in the United States and met my great grandfather. As American Jews, my family and I continue to have mixed feelings and associations with Eastern Europe, and more specifically Odessa "the pearl of the black sea", which older relatives of mine had described to be at one time a magical place. Odessa is a beautiful city that I imagine yearns for freedom from it's own tragic history, a freedom which is of course impossible to ever obtain. The suffering, sadness, and complexity of my feelings for my family's history as European Jews is represented in this first composition of mine for solo piano”.
While trained as a classical pianist, Rossi is also a multi-faceted, multi instrumentalist, producer and singer who releases electronic music under the moniker of Krystalmath, which you can listen to on Spotify here.
Words of Karla Harris