The New Album 'Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed' - Out Now

All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

My name is Andy. I try to write songs that remind us about things we may have forgotten. Through these songs, I want to remind myself and you to listen to that sometimes-quiet inner voice that can be drowned out by negative thoughts. At their best, I like to think of songs as invisible spiritual chiropractors, they bring us back to our center. They give us little reminders when we least expect it. A lot of my philosophy and inspiration comes from my Mom. She taught me that music is the ladder to our souls. She died when I was 25. Her death broke me into a million pieces. I learned a lot by putting myself back together. After her death, I spent most of my time street performing, often with no one listening. No one wants happy songs from someone who hasn't truly been sad. I’ve been sad. This past year without any shows has been especially hard on me. I think, like many others, it forced me to reevaluate where I get my self-worth from. These new songs provide a front row seat into my attempt to vulnerably examine and explain my ongoing journey to love myself. I hope these songs help us climb higher together.

We are talking about a traveler, a virtual globetrotter that has the abilities to travel through time and space, a super hero that uses his powers to travel through galaxies and dimensions and uses the experiences to create new and exciting music.

The man with those superpowers is a Swiss maverick, a sound-designer and music nerd who figured out by accident that his extensive gear collection does not only serve the purpose of polishing his musical visions but also helps him to send him off on far and adventurous trips to the most exotic places and to the historically most influent times.

Christian Beat Hirt, born in the year when Supertramp had their breakfast in America and Israel and Egypt agreed to a truce, the genius who made human teleportation and time travels possible, is PASSENGER 10. He always travels on the aisle, never on the window, he never sleeps, doesn’t need to eat and he never gets distracted by the disbelievers and haters – He is on a mission.

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