New album release: “Just Few Things”

Life and stuff as usual happend, again – we’ll get back to the “redwinds” shortly. But for now, I can finally say: A new album is out!

Cooking this up for over a year now, I started producing the first bits and pieces roughly early last year – and thought I “might come up with a fresh album soon!” That wasn’t exactly the case, but for various reasons. Mainly, I really wanted to grow as a musician. And that in return meant: Sitting down and learning.

So I did! I listened, and listened, and listened, to a whole bunch of other musicians, producers, from Indie to the big ones, and really tried to figure out what makes “good sound” actual “good sound”. What directions do I want to take? What directions can you take? Where’s the limits – and how far can I come, doing everything myself, from the very start up to the final mastering?

Mind you: I still consider myself a rookie, and I’m far from what any professional could do, obviously. But I think it’s fair to say that, compared to my first released EP, I’ve come a long way and did indeed learn a few tricks on this wildly interesting journey called “music production”.

“Just Few Things” is out now, as a Bandcamp exclusive (for the time being at least), and I am really happy with what I achieved here.

I might drop a bit more about it soon, cause there’s certainly some specific aspects I might want to talk about a bit more in detail. There’s a reason I called this my “blood, sweat and tears” release, after all, since there were times where I doubted I could achieve what I had envisioned. But I can confidently say: This is pretty much what I wanted it to be and I’m super happy to have it finally released after all this time!

I obviously did enjoy making this album and I really hope you get to enjoy it as well!

The Non-binary click

So, let’s start off straight (ha!): Hi, I’m non-binary. Didn’t know? Me neither, just figured as of lately. Wanna know how that little revelation happened? Let me take you on a quick journey through languages and gender expression, shall we?

It all started with a more or less simple observation of myself here. As I put it over on Mastodon just recently, I wondered: How is it that in my native language, which is German, I feel fine with being referred to as “he/him” (“er/ihn”) – but at the same time, as soon as I talk English, it’s “he/him”, but also “they/them”? How could my own identity, the way I see myself, and even the way I express myself become more… well, “complex”, to say the least, or maybe simply more “diverse”, only just by using a different language than my native one? To be fair, the answer to that is a bit more complex itself – let’s get to it.

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“Privately” Re-Release

As some may know, january of 2022 I released “Privately” on Bandcamp. Beside messing around with sounds and experimenting a bit here and there prior to this EP, this marked not only my very first public steps in making music, but it also changed something for me.

The amount of support and feedback (mostly positive!) was quite a bit overwhelming, but I got it – looked like this wasn’t “just another thing on the internet” I just do and then move on. Looked like music was there to stay, hu?

Followed up by an full Album then (Music Is Everything Is Music) summer the same year, and another EP (ASPHALT) shortly after, I then took it a bit more to streaming – only to take a major break and basically go full “radio silence” mode for quite a bit now. The reason? Working on a new album.

By now, I’ve been into “music production” for roughly about two years (minus the… let’s call it “20 years of bit practicing before”, shall we?) – and I took notes. I kept at it, I jammed, I composed, I arranged, I looped. I (actively!) listened to a whole lot of other great music, I exchanged with other fantastic, talented and likeminded souls. I tried to figure what makes “good songs” actually “good” – and how I could actually destill this “good” from of my own creations.

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Hello.

Symbol pic to start this off.

Picture shows a wodden house in minecraft, in form of an acorn, laying on the side in a valley surrounded by trees.

Now if you excuse me – after redesigning this site for 3 days straight, I’ll now spend the rest of this lovely sunday in my “acorn lounge” with the boyfriend.
More about everything else soon.