My only acoustic song on my first album. A quite minimalistic composition.
Here you can see me performing it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-LGnCPUwus
I am very happy if you remix the song or elements of it. Please contact me for the individual tracks of the song if you are interested.

Matthias am Klavier

Tiefe See

Tiefe See - Piano instrumental

Video: https://youtu.be/9cupY6qeifk 

This might be the most experimential song on my new album. It includes more electronic elements and also a beat in the second part.

Before I switched to the piano I played the bass for some years. I like exploring typical basslines with the piano - you might hear that in the beginning of the song.

Weiten des Meeres (Piano, lyrics and electronic background) with VIDEO

Video: https://youtu.be/IPvXan7ipJQ  

I wrote this song in a small house in a community in northern Germany. Through the window I had a view over a lake and at night-time I had to heat the house with a wood-oven. So while I was composing the song I could hear the sparkling of fire and the willows in the wind...

Weiden Wehen Im Wind (piano, lyrics & instrumentation) with VIDEO

The first impressions of one of my main tracks on the upcoming album...

Gewalten der Natur

Gewalten Der Natur- Teaser

Video: https://youtu.be/C8dKAI7O6X8 
Finally I have released my first record. After weeks and weeks of preparation I had a very nice concert in a small hall near Bonn in Germany. Even a small Bonsai-tree joined me on stage. It would have been impossible not to have a little bit of nature with me on stage when all the songs are so inspired by landscapes and plants.

Gewalten der Natur (piano, lyrics and instrumentation) with VIDEO

A young man builds wings out of wax, flies too close to the sun and crashes. That is the old greek story. 

But what happens if we learn "not to fly too high nor too low", as Ikarus gets instructed by the craftsman Daedelus in this old myth? 

This song is a new interpretation of the old motive. Instead of crashing, I explore old cities underneath the water (Atlantis?), find treasures in the deep jungle and watch the desert from a flying carpet.

I am not very good with translations, so I have just copied the German lyrics into the Google Translator and here is the outcome:

Sometimes miracles work
Sometimes rare luck
Sometimes oriental landscapes
Glow in the evening light

Ancient cities deep under the water
Secret beings in the forest
Dark the caves, old mysteries
The treasure rests deep in the forest

Fly my carpet, take me home
Far south where I'm from
Show me deserts, all their vastness
Take me with you dear luck

Only horizon through the dusty turban
hot air warms my blood
The dunes whiz past below me
I slide like this, through the air

Ikarus

Ikarus (piano, lyrics and instrumentation)

I don't have a specially good connection to my ancestors. I don't know too much about my family roots and I didn't know my grandparents very well either. 
But lately I am starting to build a connection to the people who lived here long time ago. I am following the songlines of the surrounding landscapes and listening what they want to tell me. And I am curious to find out, where this vague interest wants to take me...

Google translation of the lyrics of the song:

You lived here then
How was life here?
How did you live?
Were you happy here?

Did you bathe in the lake?
Were there still fish here?
Was it all forest then?
Was the winter cold then?

Secret fire on the grave
Wide view down to the valley
Narrow stripe of the Pene river
did you see it too

Take me with you
Tell me more about you
Make me wild again
Show me how that was done

Light the path for me
Come to me tonight
Lives with us again
Close the circle with us

Secret fire on the grave
Wide view down to the valley
Narrow stripe of the Pene river
did you see it too

Foto: Nicola Sansom

Mit unseren Ahnen

Ancestors Song

Lately I started trusting my intuition and exploring the symbols around me. I came to the conclusion, that if I had looked at the symbolism of things (animals, signs, plants...) more often in my life, I might have avoided some difficult relationships and demanding times. When I wrote this song I had to think of an old, dusty attic full of old books, candles and bottles with little ships inside...

Thanks to: Jordy Meow for the great foto taken in Japan (no, surprisingly it is not made with Photoshop) and to Adam Richard Tucker (@adam-tucker-composer) for the motivating first feedback on the song arrangement.

Symbols

Symbols - Piano Instrumental

For me dreams are the most common access humans have to their soul and to other realms of consciousness. It is hard to grasp them with words, so I rather let the voice and the melody try to find the way through some scenes of some dreams I had. Many, many thanks to Myckaël Marcovic (@myckael-marcovic) for his impressive knowledge and support mastering the song. He opened me fascinating doors to this totally new field for me - I will try to follow his footsteps in the next songs...
Illustration: British Library, The half hour library of travel, nature, and science (1896)
Google translation of the lyrics:

I dream of old friends
about an old city
I often have old fears
In some dark nights, in some dark nights

I sleep close to a beautiful women
and caress her gently
I'm naked and at the mercy
in some dark nights, in some dark nights

Sometimes in dark corridors
in this old town
trapped in constraints
that I make myself during the day, that I make myself during the day

Even in dark corridors
in this old town
trapped in constraints
in some dark nights, in some dark nights

Coming soon...

Dreams in the dark

In my dreams I sometimes dive in the wide ocean or in deep water. Sometimes I find myself surrounded with sharks, sometimes I have to find my way through storms.

I always wake up very agitated after these dreams. Diving in deep water is an emotional adventure I tried to capture in this song.

Thank you, Adam, for giving it a last shape...

Deep Sea

Lyrics, guitar & engineering: A.J. Kaufmann (@ajkaufmann)
Vibraphone and other instruments: Matthias am Klavier

AJ Kaufmann and me both lived in Berlin for some time and when he send me this song, I was directly inmersed in the feelings of my time living there. Not always the nicest feelings, but with a taste of art, darkness and adventure...

(obviously influenced by Bowie's, Nico's and Lou's very early sounds...) 

Lyrics:

Walking down same old alleys
Looking for my face in the wind
Imaginary radio
Plays some Sinatra for me
Yeah I know it's cheap
But it knocks me off my feet
Anyhow

There were times of wicked beauty
Met in old Berlin
A cigarette & a cup of coffee
A woman in between
Yeah I know she's fine
But she couldn't read my mind
Anyway

Give me the blues
And blow me away
For a day

With her whip she looked so sweet
And she moved with grace
Oh but I swear a man like you
Wouldn't like to be in my place
Yeah that's how it is
She's got her little whip
And a smile

We ran wildly thru the streets
Flew like the Zeppelin
Not the one that crashed to the ground
But the one that flies in your dreams
We didn't ever want to land
We had so many plans
Now they're gone

Give me the blues
And blow me away
For a day

Wild days, wilder nights
Amphetamine & drinks
Oh how I pity you catholic boys
And all you catholic girls
Joy is my name 
My woman is insane
Still we fly

Give me the blues
And blow me away
For a day

Bard's woman in the cool of the summer breeze

Little Whip

AJ Kaufmann & Matthias am Klavier - Little Whip

Mastering: Adam R. Tucker (@adam-tucker-composer)

A walk through a time where the fields were still full of poppies, cornflowers and camomile and where my grandmother would use the linen tablecloth she inherited from her own grandmother....

Simple Google-Translation of the lyrics:
Photo in a frame
with your name
matt portrait from a bygone time

Me in a little dress
at your side
Flowers by the wayside of a time gone by

Your linen dress 
Your hand so soft
Feeling such a security

Stomp in the gravel path
I laugh while we chat
deep familiarity of a time gone by

Camomile scent 
and red poppies
Wandering through a time gone by

Your linen dress 
your hand so soft
I feel such security

Elderberry syrup 
and a sausage
Wandering through time gone by

In your lap
I am feeling at ease
while I hear your belly rumble

I feel the wind,
Dancing to myself
Through high pastures as an eternal child

In my flat
I look at the photo
Tears are rolling through all these times

I see your face
I feel your light 
And that you're still among us

Cover photo: Lewis W. Hine (1912)

Old foto's memories

Old photo's memories

It is really an honour to work with Igor Iofe in this song, who provided these wonderfully delicate trumpet melodies. The song is a trip through landscapes and inner realms, a topic that has always fascinated me. Thanks a lot also to Adam Tucker for doing the final engineering, what a help.
Superficial translation of the lyrics:
We fill up the bottles,
the goal the horizon.
In the heart no pain, no thoughts,
our worries are gone too.

So far this world,
so wonderful this sand,
With you by my side
With you by my hand

Here no one can stop us any more,
swimming in the horizon
Wide open views, from high cliffs,
deep inside us, the land speaks.

Flying high, circling the coast,
Deep in the sea, we see the ground,
Warm air warms our thoughts,
Deep within us, the land speaks.

Then in the evening under the blankets
Cold air on the face
Infinity in the starry sky
which then engulfs us

Trumpet: Igor Iofe @igor-iofe-1
Mastering: Adam Tucker @adam-tucker-composer

Sea in sight

Sea in sight (with Igor Iofe)

After a long break without writing songs, I finally come back with a motive that has always fascinated me: The interplay between humans and the surrounding landscapes. Being a gardener myself I am in close contact with nature all the time, and I see my work as an constant exchange with plants, rocks, trees and my feelings. Maybe you can hear the landscapes in between the lines as well...

Listening to landscapes

Nature music * Gardening pianist

I consider myself a nature writer. Besides doing music I am a Feng Shui gardener. I like to listen to rivers and landscapes.

Matthias am Klavier

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