A moment of calm and inner peace is what we crave. It does not come that often, but when it does it's just plain beautiful. This tune is a soundtrack of sorts for all such carefree moments, fleeting, yet eternal. It's not about everything having to be perfect; it's about how we feel. I feel this while making music and I arrive at that point where it's no longer
me doing it, it seems to be happening on its own, no thinking, no analysing, you just listen and feel. It's a kind of "nirvana" that doesn't come only through artistic creation. It may happen any time, when you are just plain happy, laying in bed with your girl, while sunlight pours in through the shutters, summer breeze gently caresses the curtains and Chet Baker plays the trumpet. Or when you're sitting with your friends, share stories and enjoy good food. Moments of calm when you feel one with all things and people around you.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Effortless

When things, good or bad, happen for the first time, they have a special sort of allure and they stay with us forever. The first record you buy, your first concert, first kiss. First time you get drunk or in a fight, first breakup or loss of a loved one. In a nutshell, they leave a permanent mark in your lives. Some were at their best when they first happened, some become better with time, some hurt as badly every time they happen and some even more. This song is about those nice moments, but if you're a bit masochistic, feel free to remember the bad ones too!

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - The First

Music has always been with me, since I was a little boy. At age of 15 I've discovered turntablism and it has since been one of the most important things in my life. And ever since I had to justify my choices: why my music is more important than my school, going out or even food. Sometimes I would spend the lunch money Mum gave me to buy a bagel and the rest I'd use to buy a record. That alone was too much for some to understand so you can imagine the reactions when I decided to quit my job and devoted all my time to music alone. I do understand parental fears whether their kid will be able to make the rent, pay bills or buy food, but what I can't understand is the deprecation so strong that it borders hatred. Lack of support is not a problem, the problem is excess of contempt towards something so meaningful to me. This song is for all of you who are sick and tired of trying to justify your choices.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Appreciation

Watching a loved one suffer a debilitating illness is an experience I would gladly erase from my life and memory. Each of those days lasted an eternity and I wanted them to end as soon as possible, to just go to bed and sleep and, for just a brief spell, not live that life and that reality. To escape in any way I can. As Maynard would say: “One more medicated peaceful moment”. But the thing that hurt the most were the questions with no answers, the absurdity of it all: why such a horrible thing happens to such a wonderful and gentle person. I cannot find solace in the phrases “it’s God’s will” or “it’s destiny” and the one thing that comes to mind is how unfair all of it is. I feel cheated. And so life goes on, and you eventually realize that being cheated is a part of life, but you never seem to fully come to terms with it.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Morbis Tree

Marks the end of that horrible period of my life. It was not a happy end, but it was the end nonetheless. The end of someone's suffering and agony and the end of apprehension.
The end one cannot change, only accept and move on. To this day I feel guilty and selfish for secretly feeling relieved; not because of how it ended, but because it eventually ended.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Salvation

I'm turning 30 a day after this album drops. And as most people reaching that milestone, I am slowly becoming aware of the passage of time, aware that a year does not last as long as it used to. It's shorter. Granted, the number of days in a year has not changed, but the days themselves seem to pass at a much quicker rate. Now, it's not a big deal, I do not feel old, I do not feel like I missed something or I have to make up for something. I did not get stuck in a rut, in a sterile "loop" type of life and I am happy because of it. I just want the day to be longer, so I'd have more time to play or listen to music, read a book, cook, spend time with friends and family, but since the hand on the clock does not care for our wishes, all we can do is make the most of what we're given.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Perception

The title is rather self­explanatory. Even if you don't know German, the meaning is three clicks away. If you're a person spending more time in your own mind thinking about the past, future, and imagined reality, then you can fully relate to this tune. Here, for example, Filip and I, we are not playing this tune, we are sitting in "Le Rotonde" in Paris, with a drunk Hemingway across the room going on and on about some hunting story.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Tagträumer

Empathy is a good thing, though you may not always have it easy if you have too much of it. Say you adopt three stray cats, or spend half an hour chasing a spider around your flat
just so you can let it out in the open, or you spend money, time and energy on people and their real or imagined problems. It may all be worth it in a long run, but it would certainly have been much easier to turn on the "ignore" mode at times and that's probably why empathy is hard to find these days. Selfishness, greed, hatred and anger are tempting and hard to control, and they are without exception destructive. Yet there are people to whom I would not hesitate to direct all my hatred, anger, even violence. People who consciously spread pain, hurt, diseases and death for profit and personal gain. “Machine Men with machine hearts”, just as Charlie Chaplin brilliantly said it in his speech in "The Great Dictator".

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - No Empathy For The Machines

Human relationships can be very complicated. We love a person who lies to us, we hate someone who tells us the truth, just because the truth hurts. We tend to forgive people who've hurt us five times over, only if the sixth time they show some semblance of loyalty and some illusion of friendship, yet some people we begrudge the tiniest mistake. I'd always rather build bridges, than burn them, but in time we have to learn to tell who really is deserving of the effort and who is not. For some of my people I'd single­handedly build bridges many miles long, whereas others are not worth the push of the button to blow
them up. I am very lucky to have people in my life who love and support me truly and unconditionally. This song is dedicated to them.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Bridges

Just as we opened the box in the beginning, it is now time to close it. This track does not mark the end, just rounds up the album and the period of my life when I made it. I've been a turntablist for over 15 years, but I've only been composing and playing the piano for a mere third of that period. With this, I close the beginner's phase of my musical creation. For years I've been collaborating with many musicians, composing music and recording scratches, and it gave me a sense of accomplishment. But it is now, with the completion of this album, that I feel well rounded and finally free to move on, not only musically, but also in life. We all need closure, we need a point in our lives where we face our mistakes, realize what we want from our future and turn a new page and go.

This track is from the album Little Box and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/raid2

Raid - Closure

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