I'm often outside in the forest, taking my daily walks. It's beautiful out there. But it's also painful because there are so many traces of destruction made by people:  Roadkilled animals like fire salamanders and blindworms. Waste and litter they left there, looking for recreation in nature but leaving it without any respect. Sometimes I wander for hours through the woods but still hear the noises of cars and planes. Some weeks ago I found "my" forest destructed by Harvesters. The place was a mess, it looked like a battlefield! All for profit - for growth, growth, growth....I just sat there and cried because it felt so incredible bad and I was ashamed to belong to the human species. Even now as I write and remember the day, I feel the tears behind my eyes.

A thought I liked then was how it all would look like if we humans were no longer here. How the plant and animal world slowly can recover. Breathe again. A thought that gives me solace and comfort in a time when everyone with eyes can see that it's wrong how we treat our environment. Another day without humanity - the track describes pretty much the feeling I have when I imagine a world without human destruction and carelessness.

Heidi K is a skilled musician I met here on Soundcloud and although she is not mainly doing ambient music, she was a wonderful collaborateur and brought up great musical ideas and samples.  She shares my love for music and nature and it has been a pleasure to work with her. Thank you very much, Heidi! https://on.soundcloud.com/8H85G

...with Heidi K: Another Day Without Humanity

Sometimes I cannot believe what I hear regarding to the problems we have as a global or national society. May it be climate change, gender gaps, war, prosecution, racism, oppression...

Far, far beyond every logic and facts exists a world that looks temptingly simple with an easy solution for everything. Sometimes I can feel a small part of me is even a bit envious because I care very much and I wish there were easy answers to let the burden of being in charge of my decisions go. Shall "the others" (who are of course always in charge but I am never, haha) act first! But well, it's not given to me. But the ability to make music is given to me and it eases my worries and it's a cool feeling to create something from destructive energy. So I made this track. Here the lyrics: 

I'm speechless
Climate change denying
War and violence
I'm speechless

Proudly displayed ignorance of my kind
Lack of empathy, just one thing counts:
Convenience

Unwilling even to to save ourselves
Out of greed and sloth
Speechless. Leaves me speechless.

Speechless

Hello, dear listener. I'm happy you are here and I hope you enjoy the sounds you find on this channel.

Missing Winter is a project that reflects my love for (the middle-european) winter and autumn. I'm really not a summer person. I like the cloudy skies, the rain, the low temperatures and - of course - snow. I'm never happy when the sun shines but I feel alive when a day starts with a grey sky. This is not only a personal preference but also a result of my summer depression. This kind of seasonal depression is not known very well, often people never heard about it or think I'm joking. But I'm not: Sunlight can break me during minutes and I try to talk about this form of depression often to gain awareness. If you read till here, you now know about it. Yes, one more!

Related to this topic, I worry a lot about climate change. And I am so sorry for the plants and animals that pay the rent for our way of life.  I can already see them dying on my walks through the forests here and it is breaking my heart. I miss the winters we once had so much! I feel like those hot, long summers we expect for future and already have now are a huge loss. So I try to put all my feelings in my music. The result is Missing Winter. If you made it through the text to this point, you might have simliar feelings. At least you know you are not alone and maybe my sounds can ease your grief a little bit by painting beautiful pictures of winter.

My personal perspective of winter is the middle- and northern European, but I think no matter where you live on our planet, you might miss the winter (and summers) we had before. Like winters that did not mean huge forest fires. However, please forgive my euro centered point of view, it is the one I naturally have.

If you are interested in my other works, that are more in genre of electronic, I'd be pleased if we met again on my other profile here on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/b-p-s-s?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing. Also, I'm highly interested in cooperations.

MissingWinter

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