urban classical · grand piano
In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
“Walking Around Munich” came from “walking around munich” as a phrase before it was a record, and then refused to leave.
The grand piano does the thinking here; I only choose what to keep.
If it slowed you down for forty minutes, it did its job.
Lately everything I write bends back toward the Isar.
I wrote it at the grand piano, mostly late, mostly by deleting.
Made small, on purpose.
No secret to how this gets made: one grand piano, two microphones, a room, and a lot of erasing.
The room is part of the instrument; I record it as much as the grand piano.
In the lineage of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Ludovico's quiet school, if I'm honest.
One grand piano, and as little else as I can get away with.
Every so often I play somewhere tiny around Germany — a back room, a little hall, once a kitchen. Never big, never really advertised. If you'd host one, message me.
A Steinway that walks from Munich's streets into private, interior weather.
It's urban classical, played on the grand piano, and if I'm honest it's a diary about Munich that I decided to score instead of write.
The records — “Walking Around Munich” — are entries, really. One continuous notebook.
Studied at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk (AMuz), on the Baltic coast, which never quite left the writing.
