Little spoiler: My new song Come Together is out on Bandcamp now, it’s a pre-version that is waiting for you to collaborate! (If you feel like.)
Sometimes things fall in place.
As dark and dirty life sometimes gets, this days show up, and quite often, after my experience, surprisingly. This floating feeling “life feels right”, when things start to flow and old pain is easing.
I feel blessed to see these days coming more often. I love the feeling. That life isn’t just a huge bunch of inevitable obligations we have to suffer through but a playground where we can try out all sorts of things without taking things (including ourselves) too seriously.
It’s time to come together!
I was working quite hidden for many years and disappeared from my old life after abandoning my double bass in 2010. After finally releasing my first album this April, I knew that things had to change. Of course there’s the financial pressure. I had invested everything I had to make my debut album a good sounding as possible and well, I am very idealistic when it comes to sound… So I have to go out now with everything I have in order to make a living with music and this is including playing the bass again. Yes, the longly abandoned bass!
However there’s more to it than money. I feel ready now to go out, throw myself into the crowed with all I have, and this includes the past.
I’m not coming from a world of rock.
I grew up in a very classical environment and the most “unclassical” thing I could imagine doing that time was studying jass bass. And I don’t regret a thing. It was an amazing time, I met truly great musicians and enjoyed learning so much.
Still, today I’m making mainly rock music. For now. So things change even though other crucial things don’t, which actually is great, ’cause I’m sure, if everything would change we’d not know who we are anymore. Well, I guess, we don’t know much who we are anyway…
What feels so great about this time: Going out now to you guys, talking to you, listening and exchanging, feels like fun. It has been a hustle for many years which surprised me from time to time again, ’cause in many ways I was an outgoing person as a young man.
It’s just much easier to be outgoing if you feel like being in the center of yourself, of what you can do and achieve. So when I had abandoned my bass and was starting all kinds of new directions, I was an absolute beginner again, which wasn’t helpful for my self-confidence.
I still feel like a beginner when I’m alone on stage, singing and playing guitar. It’s still very new to me and I tend to try more with my voice and guitar than I’m actually able to safely deliver… Always the risky adventurer! The cool thing is: I don’t feel like an absolute beginner anymore. That really helps to be more cool, try out more crazy things and most of all have much more fun!
So let’s come together, celebrate life and exchange ideas and more!
Hope to see you around and hear your stories!
Your again outgoing Kaptain 🙂
