This is our geography

9 songs, 8 cities, 7 musicians. I guess we are looking for our identity through our whole lives. Moving countries, choosing another home can both mess things up or help. These nine songs I released today are trying to discover where I stand, where you stand, where we are standing. Rarely on solid ground, mostly…

Geography

Imaginary World

I am looking at an old photo of myself, it’s lost most of its colors, it’s turned mostly yellow. I must have been four or five years old. Surrounded by luscious greenery, I am sitting on my knees in our garden, looking to the distance, holding my teddy bear, wearing pink pyjamas and a necktie…

There Are No Mountains (in my soul)

When you move countries, much like with most big changes in life, you first notice all the amazing things you moved for. A kind of honeymoon, if you like. And then slowly, as the new paradise becomes an everyday reality, you start noticing things that are not present anymore from your previous life. Like mountains,…

Live again! – Amsterdam edition

Its red walls, and wall chandeliers that shine with a yellowish light are captivating. It smells as an old theatre should. I really could not imagine a better place to perform in Amsterdam (and in The Netherlands) for the first time. Tickets I have had my fair share of venues before, from the smallest living…

Welcome to my audience

It took two exhausting years to make my first ever solo album. But we could also say forty-six. But it is there now, shiny and new, blurry and sharp, welcome to my audience. I thought through every single word in the lyrics and placed them carefully to their final places. Some of these songs will…

Nostalgia

Time by nature goes ahead. And it can be debated whether it makes sense to celebrate turning points in it mostly created by men or not. However, next year is the 15th anniversary of two very important songs in my life, both recorded with The Unbending Trees, and one of them a duet with the…

The World of Dust (live)

The World of Dust (Stefan Breuer’s alterego)’s opening track of his new album, Gaman is about him going through anxiety before having to perform in a place where he knew no one. Little did I know it was going to be the perfect storyline for my evening when I went to see him live in…

So Quiet…

Such quiet music that you can hear the sound of the stage creaking under my feet. You can hear the smallest cough. This silence also empowers your other senses, you see the dust in the beam of the spotlight, you can smell the curtains and the mystery of the theatre. This is where I come…

Fighters, Expats, Rebels

The sound of the harp recalling old ages, the sound effects of a dystopian future and two of personalities- these are the components staring in each others’ eyes in ‘Fighter’. This song was originally recorded in 2013 for the second album of The Unbending Trees, what more it was planned to be a duet, two…