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touch me (2009)

inspired by the relationship to my pretty wife i started two years ago to collect little melodies on my cellphone. you have to imagine: sometimes I stopped in the middle of a street, switched on the recorder, and sung something, while people around me wondered, what i am doing. fourteen of these little recordings became basic motifs of "touch me". during the process of composing i realised, that the new material would not fit to poems, because the songs were much more easy than anything, what i had written before. so i stepped away from the poems, the choirs, the long songs and the progressive style, though there are still progressive elements left. for the first time i use synths and programmed techno-patterns, which are transforming my sound to become more modern and more suitable for more people. all songs were written as full scores using my notation software 'Sibelius' before i thought about how to record everything. i hired again Tim Warweg for the drums to get a natural groove, which nobody can copy with programming. the drum-set was recorded in my bedroom with just two mics. we used very old drums by the manufacturer 'Asba'. the drums are made of steel, a material, which was also preferred by John Bonham . Tim was well prepared and we recorded all fourteen songs in just one day directly to 'garageband'. basing on the drum-tracks I added the other instruments and the voice step by step.

many directions (2007)
after "straight to the brain" i really had liked to work again with real musicians and professional mix and mastering, but i realised, that it's too expensive for me. therefore i produced everything alone like in the good old times, when i experimented with my first multitrack-recordings. technology has made progressions and i have used the best tools to get most out of my new compositions. i think my approach has a little bit changed, because the first five songs are sounding more commercial and straight-forward than my usual work. there are more stylistic changes in the music, so you can listen to a real 70-funk-tune. at last i am very happy with the new work and I guess, that more people will like this.
straight to the brain (2004)
this work was much more "progressive" than "sculptures" and had a better connection between the music and the poems, because the music flowed like the words. this time I had not pressed a poem in a formerly done musical form, i was directly inspired by the form of the poem. if you like breaks, odd times and time-changes, you will fall on to your knees. i had experimented with my voice for the lead-vocals, therefore the color of my voice is changing more between deeper and higher notes. on two tracks you can hear me for the first time playing my main instrument, violin, on a cd. when i looked back on "sculptures" i was not very happy with the programmed drumming, so i had looked for a real drummer, who had to read my scores. at last I decided to give the job to Tim Warweg, a well-known studio-drummer. the piano and trumpet are played by Stefan Platte, who is the boyfriend of my little sister.
sculptures (2002)
this one cool album as a critic acclaimed, was composed and played nearly alone. just my old schoolfriend olli helped on a few tracks with „dramatic vocals“. here you can hear the rising of my personal style. the progressive element seems to be weak compared to the later works and the album is more based on a simple hardrock, but on the other hand it becomes the strength of this album. it really rocks ...

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