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"I remember when I just finished the work on A Heart's Requiem. I was afraid not to be able to write something different from what I had written before as I was afraid of writing something that differs so extremely that I would cheat on the musical ideals, because I didn't recognise that ideals can be flexible. I couldn't change my style because I didn't let me change my style, because I didn't want to change my style. After I had won that battle with myself and after I had changed automatically as a person and as a writer I could finally start with writing new songs. The funny thing is that I didn't force myself to write something totally different. It just happend to sound different from AHR." |
"Musically the new songs have an immensely different sound, because they come up with a new vibe. The atmosphere and the mood are a bit more positive. It's melancholic like it always was. But melancholy is not just sadness and sorrow. It's a lot more. I'm aware of the fact that the songs off AHR were really sad and plaintive and sometimes very depressive. But this time there's a new message. The message is that there's a better place that you can reach. However dark the place might be you're recently in, there's always a way to get out of it and reach the - whatever - brighter place. I left out the sacral and classical elements. Such as church organs, background choirs, church bells and much delay." |
"Thematically the new songs deal with friendship. There is no relationship in the world that can compete with an intimate and very deep friendship. I wrote a lot about my friends and people who just inspired me. People are very inspiring. You can read dozen of books and then you know the theory about people but the most important thing is to communicate with them. Another aspect is being alone with yourself and finding yourself and remembering where you come from and who made you who you are now." |
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"The new record's working title is Barefoot because it seems as if the album is turning out to be a very rooted album - like staying down to earth or being connected with the earth, the ground you walk on. In summer 2008 walking barefoot was important to me - to feel the ground underneath my bare feet. In comparison to AHR which was very much up from the ground it was a good feeling. You can compare the two works with architectural eras. AHR was the Gothique era and Barefoot would be the Rennaisance era today." |
"If we speak of architecture AHR is quite a Gothic building. Fixated on the afterlife, death and all that's beyond. Lift off from the ground. Barefoot would be a Renaissance building. Basically it focusses on that what's here and now. Straighter, affirmative and positive. Still melancholic but not dark. In adjectives Barefoot is: grateful, sincere, ecstatic, real, positive, claiming, clarifying, defining, down-to-earth, rooted to the soil, earthy and earthly, warmer, experimental, pulsative, emotional, optimistic, bittersweet, melancholic and much more that has to get figured out." |
"Barefoot is about getting your bare foot on the ground again. Feeling the earth underneath your bare feet. Finding your ground on which you can plant self-confidence and self-esteem. This time it's not about morbid and sacral things. It's about you here and now on a path you walk barefoot to feel it better. To feel yourself better. I couldn't feel myself quite well on AHR so I do it now. Running barefoot to look for yourself is very healing and clearing. You should try it." |
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