that's a lot of story and a lot of emotion for under 1:00.

Mute My Mind

Official Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeZP1vrovY

Drown Out

Original from 2016, but reworked in 2020-2022. Seems I could never get the levels right, re-recorded some guitars and took another shot at it. Has a Tom Petty/Tears for Fears feel which I dig. Enjoy a last memento from me, hopefully won't be the last. Enjoy

Jackal

When I'm on the hunt, I go where I want
From dusk till dawn, I am nothing to no-one
And you'll never catch me, you'll never catch me no
Because I am free
And you'll never find me, you'll never find me no
Cause you never see
And I'm running, I'm running free 6x
Cause you never see me
I know where you are, and what I'm to do
However far, I will find you
And I'm gonna catch you, I'm gonna catch you oh
When you fall
It means nothing to me, means nothing to me oh
Nothing at all
And I'm running, I'm running free 7x
Cause you never see

Jackal ft: Janelle Saucedo (Car Test)

Stars are visible from a room, which has lost city lights.
Children, old people, and soldiers, no one in this city anymore.

Last lovers on this planet. Distant explosion sound.

Rubble, remembrances and corpses. We are living in chaos now.
It's just the two of us in this world. One might call it romantic.

Last lovers on this planet. I want to know what love is.

What is lost can no longer be regained, only to fade away.
Only sighs may remain in history and will be passed down.

Last lovers on this planet. I sleep with you in my arms.

Everyone made love. Everyone was betrayed. 
Everyone was hurt. Nobody's left.

Last lovers on this planet

Crazy Little Spaceship Called Earth

i know you'll come like a thief in the night 
with a thief on your left and a thief on your right
one thief acquitted when another thief crossed you, love
it's clear as day now, god, but why must i be the thief?

why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief? why must i be the thief?

amish rage - the thief

The main riff of this is monkeyed from widerstehe doch der sünde by J.S. Bach. Another tribute to my father, who loved Bach.

I Know That You're Gone

I wrote this song after seeing pictures of my parents' home on Zillow.

Come and Go (Demo)

Second part of my father trilogy.
This song is based on a dream I had a good 20 years ago with my father, who had been dead for some time. 
I am in a dimly lit room. It's just me and somehow my father's energy body. At some point, this invisible energy body comes towards me. Then we embrace. It is a merging embrace. Something deep inside me releases and makes me cry. It's not so much a sad cry, but a liberating, soothing cry that pacifies me completely. 
Since this dream, the grudge I harboured against him for a long time has largely disappeared.     
Somehow he has been there inside me since then and I can sometimes visit him (even in dreams) when I want to talk to him.

The arrangement of the song is deliberately minimalist (just vocals, guitar and violin, hardly any effects) in order to emphasise the tremendous intimacy of the encounter between my father and me in the dream described above (there is no longer a "leaf" between us).

My Father  (Lyrics in English)

Would so like to talk to you
Break through the walls to the hereafter
Meet you in a moon cafe
On chairs that stand here and there

You died before the Berlin Wall came down
My son was born on the day you died
Never saw my beautiful wife
Although you had aimed 
For a hundred years of life

You only reached half of it
Life was rarely really easy for you

You were often too close to the stars
Underestimated the danger to your life
Had so many visions
Wanted to live in castles in the air

Then you were all there again
So clairvoyant, wise and clear

Would love to have you with me now
My father, I would love to have you here now 

The dividing wall to you is now open
I haven't met you for so long
You're waiting for me in the moon cafe
I see you in the soft twilight

I want to tell you so many things
What happened after you left
You still wanted to experience it all
Your early death did not grant you that

You were so torn, the demons, they tore at you
You loved the rush, had little sense of yourself

And yet you were in deep distress
My ever-protecting boat
My steadying hand
The lighthouse in my land of chaos

You gave up the shirt off your back
That ultimately cost you your life

Would love to have you with me now
My father, I wish you were here now


Mein Vater (Deutscher Originaltext)

Möchte so gern mit Dir sprechen
Die Mauern zum Jenseits durchbrechen
Dich in einem Mond-Cafe` treffen
Auf Stühlen, die hier und dort stehen

Vor dem (Berliner) Mauerfall bist Du gestorben
An Deinem Todestag wurde mein Sohn geboren
Hast meine schöne Frau niemals erlebt
Dabei hattest Du 
Hundert Jahre Leben angestrebt

Hast grad‘ mal gut die Hälfte davon erreicht
Das Leben war für Dich selten wirklich leicht

Warst oft den Sternen zu nah
Unterschätztest die Lebensgefahr
Hattest so viele Visionen
Wolltest in Luftschlössern wohnen

Dann warst Du wieder ganz da
So hellsichtig, weise und klar

Hätt‘ Dich so gern jetzt bei mir
Mein Vater, hätt‘ Dich jetzt gern hier 

Die Trennwand zu Dir steht jetzt offen
So lange hab‘ ich Dich nicht getroffen
Du wartest im Mond-Cafe‘ auf mich
Ich seh‘ Dich im zarten Dämmerlicht

Ich will Dir so vieles erzählen
Was so geschah nach Deinem Fortgehen
Du wolltest das alles noch erleben
Dein früher Tod hat Dir das nicht vergönnt

Warst so zerrissen, die Dämonen, sie zerrten an Dir
Liebtest den Rausch, hattest für Dich wenig Feingespür

Und dennoch warst Du in tiefer Not
Mein stets mich schützendes Boot
Meine mir haltgebende Hand
Der Leuchtturm in meinem Chaos-Land

Hast Dein letztes Hemd hergegeben
Das kostete Dich letztlich Dein Leben

Hätt‘ Dich so gern jetzt bei mir
Mein Vater, hätt‘ Dich jetzt gern hier

Mein Vater (My Father)

"4"  for flute solo (play by Zoia Hodan)

Evangeline

The Songstress On The Edge Of Heaven

thank you for stopping by. i don’t know how you stumbled in here, but i'm glad you made it.

one of these days, we'll get some proper recordings done with a proper band and a proper sound engineer and a proper producer and some proper guitar props, but for now, i've pretty well embraced the lofi-aesthetic and do all of my recordings on a four-track in a walk-in closet. it gives my songs a nice dusty attic sort of a feel to them, which i find quite enchanting. perhaps you do as well.

questions, comments, and concerns are always welcome. i'm always game to explore remixes and collaborations as well.

eh, and if you've read this far, please poke around at some of the links below. music has been a sinkhole of an investment over the years, but it really is my heart and my soul, so i really do appreciate any and all support. there are also a handful of things available for free download over at bandcamp if i'm not mistaken. 

anywho, thanks again for stopping by. cheerio, mate.

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