You’ve found me!
Not by coincidence.
Simply put, everything has led you here.
The time is right: Winter is coming to Europe, and I’ve just finished a hot EP to warm your heart and quench your thirst for handmade music.
Here is the EP “Snow Flies In Circles All Nite “. Three musical works that didn’t quite fit into the previous album, “Flawed Music For Bored Avatars,” and demanded their very own framework. The three pieces form a marvelous triangle for discovering and understanding myself as an artist.
Listen to the EP while reading the text.
When The Snow Flies
The EP starts with “When The Snow Flies,” a winter song — inspired by Elvis Presley’s first vocal line in his “In the Ghetto” written by Mac Davis. However, my song is less socially critical – the focus here is on a couple in love: after a wet and cold hard day at work, the protagonist is looking forward to the time and warmth of his sweetheart, who also longs for him.
On the cold and wet journey home, he imagines in warm thoughts what the two of them will do in the small, warm flat, and yes – their meeting will be highly sensual, erotic, and romantic. Let yourself be carried away and dream along with the scenes.
Incidentally, in this song, I used an inverted guitar as an additional rhythm guitar for the first time, which resulted in a beautiful overall sound. Thanks to the wonderful Ella-Ray Feingold (Silk Sonic and others) who inspired me to do it. Thanks also to my wife Silke, who helped me get the right Elvis feel in the choirs.
By the way, the little guitar solo is a “first take” in the spirit of J.J. Cale. Can you also hear the brutal slide guitar in the last chorus?
Full Circle
And on we go: From the cold into the heat. Thousands of Greek cicadas form the background for the act of love, “Full Circle.” This exciting and unusual work is framed by a reading from Michel Birbaek’s novel “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” – a great reading adventure about love, music, and Prince (title of the German original “Das schönste Mädchen der Welt,” Blanvalet).
The proximity to Prince is particularly evident in the falsetto vocals. The song bursts some compositional boundaries: The spoken word enables an entirely new weighting of the song parts. It doesn’t seem to want or be allowed to end.
Many thanks to Karz von Bonin, whose yearning, meandering trumpet playing contributes to the conscious crossing of the threshold to trance: An erotic post-coital adventure captured in words and music. Sit back, enjoy, and read Birbaek!
SomeTimesAllNite
An homage to the flow state that people can achieve in different areas: Putting yourself in a state of ecstasy that hits just the right level of skill, effort, and pushing boundaries. Sometimes only for physical seconds, but for what feels like eons.
I took a psychology exam on the subject decades ago: I talked less about flow but improvised with the guitar long in front of the professor – in flow!
On Sometimesallnite, I take up the phenomenon musically and transport myself to a sweaty music club where a psychedelic disco number is playing. Hey, can you hear the horns? – I imitated them all with my lips and recorded them as a sentence – what fun! But here again, Karz von Bonin, whose natural trumpet playing I could never have imitated.
The vocals are inspired by Supermax’s “Lovemachine”. I thought nothing was more cool back then – Prince wasn’t on my horizon yet.
Get the flow – all nite!
Let It Snow!
HoHoHo – everything was just right. A winter EP was released, and shortly afterward, Snowfall in Cologne started to film a suitable video spontaneously. Many thanks to Vic for blocking Landmannstraße, and sorry to the drivers who hopefully didn’t rush to give birth.
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