Erkennst du dich in diesen Beschreibungen wieder oder sagen sie eher etwas darüber aus, wie der Zuhörer deine Musik erlebt?

Ja, diese Elemente erkenne ich definitiv in meiner Musik wieder.

Vor allem die emotionale Seite finde ich interessant.

Für mich ist Musikschreiben einfach sehr kathartisch.

Vor allem mein erstes Album, das ich während des Lockdowns aufgenommen habe.

Dieser ganze Prozess war wie eine Therapie, nur sehr unbewusst einfach.

Es war das erste Mal, dass ich ein Album produziert und Songs geschrieben habe.

Ist das manchmal schwieriger, dafür Anerkennung zu bekommen?

Any pre-show ritual?

I like to just play through [laughs] all my tunes really quickly in quite a manic way, but it just, like, calms my head to go through the set.

Bye.

Thanks.

[laughs] [outro music]

How about starting with Where Light Settles, the title track? [gentle music]

This track actually was the only track on the album where I used a different process to write it.

I normally write on Sibelius.

That's how I like to write all of my music, I think, because I'm a very visual person and it's just what I'm used to working with.

But for Where Light Settles, I decided to write it in Ableton instead because I wanted to challenge myself to f- fully follow my ear with the melody and not have a visual aid, 'cause I think that's why I quite like Sibelius, because I can see all the notes and I can, like, mess with them.

But yeah, it was ve- a very different process because I didn't have that to rely on, so I was fully, like, just listening and then playing it into the computer and then pausing it and playing it and I'd really like to try that again because I'm super happy with the melody and how that track has turned out, and I think it has a really beautiful energy even though it's so simple in a lot of ways and there's a lot of space.

But I think maybe that is what came from just following my ear fully.

Yeah.

Is there any examples that you felt that there's a duality in your life or as a musician?

Yeah.

There were two really strong experiences where I felt this way.

One of them was, this was, like, an ongoing personal experience where I was kind of trapped in this way of thinking, in this thing, and I basically needed to, like, find out the truth about a situation.

And, uh, eventually I did find out that truth, and it really wasn't what I wanted it to be, and it was quite gutting 'cause there'd been a lot of lead up, a lot of build up to it.

And when I did find out, I was like, on the one hand, quite devastated 'cause it wasn't the outcome that I wanted or that I was expecting.

But then on the other hand, I just felt this massive, like, release that I'm free from this.

And how did that decision made, and why did it happen? [laughs]

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I'm, like, losing money on most gigs, not, not all of them, but I kinda...

It's, and it's getting better, but at the start, I kind of made that decision to work with the band that I wanted to work with, and that's how we recorded it on the album.

And I was really scared that the music would suffer, and I didn't want that to happen.

And I kind of, I also felt like I'd rather take the financial hit and do a gig that it's, like, is more memorable where it's, like, the full thing.

Mm

... to different addresses.

And on this day, I'd like, I had a new client, and I'd just get given the address, given the key, 'cause sometimes they weren't in or the door was locked, and I'd just let myself in.