The musician, who comes from Steyr and has lived in Vienna for twelve years, has left his mark along with his band Disaster & Remedy and because the director of quite a few music movies from Leyaa to Sharktank. Now he has solely relied on himself and recorded an album with “Speedrunning” that’s 100% him. A dialog.
“Speedrunning” is a really catchy, nice to take heed to album through which happiness and thoughtfulness meet. Was {that a} acutely aware step?
It is like that as a result of it fits me a lot. They’re subjects that concern me and music that I like. 90 % of the time I write the music first, after which once I begin singing to it, it is a lyric that feels just like the music. I believe the songs meshed collectively very properly on this manner. All of them have related melancholic moments.
“Speedrunning” may very well be interpreted as a metaphor for a life that’s geared in the direction of velocity.
“Speedrunning” is a time period from the online game world meaning when somebody completes a recreation in a short time. Video games that might in any other case take 15 hours are immediately accomplished in 40 minutes. Once I noticed this for the primary time, I assumed to myself that whoever does this does not understand all the sweetness and work that goes into the work. The tune is about me being in my 30s now. It’s also a metaphor for all times. All the pieces occurs in a short time. However I am not unhappy that point feels prefer it’s going by so rapidly.
Are you able to take pleasure in moments?
Sure, completely, I am a giant foodie. I all the time attempt to report issues as they’re. I attempt to not overlook about enjoyment even in tougher phases of life.
As a band musician, the solo may very well be since you did not need to make any compromises as a songwriter. Did the songwriter in you name for it?
Really not. With Disaster & Remedy I am not primarily the songwriter; with my final band Lorbeeren it was divided into songs, the place I wrote half of the songs, which wasn’t so compromising. You possibly can write folk-pop-indie-rock alone on the guitar or piano after which it may be used as a solo undertaking. I by no means actually loved writing within the rehearsal room. So not a lot has modified there.
Picture: Kevin Nowak
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In any case. I dared to do one thing once more and allowed extra vulnerability within the songs. I attempted to not rely a lot on the sound however on chords and harmonies.
That explains a tune like “Happier,” which makes you’re feeling higher instantly after listening to it.
As a toddler, it is easy to search out pleasure in issues. The older you get, the extra it adjustments. However some issues do not get boring: taking part in the guitar, a very good espresso… “Happier” is neither melancholic nor glad. The music had a sense and I attempted to stipulate that with the lyrics. If you’re younger, the entire world is open to you and but you are usually not glad as a result of you aren’t getting all the pieces out of it. I’ve now reached a degree in my life the place I am proud of myself, the place I am with folks with whom I could make plenty of music.
Has your hometown of Steyr had an affect in your musical expression?
Generationally, maybe. Again then, many individuals in Steyr had a band that performed indie rock within the broadest sense. Some are nonetheless energetic, like my band Disaster & Remedy, I went to highschool with the members. It was a small scene again then the place everybody knew everybody.
Pande was my nickname at school and it by some means lent itself to being a stage identify. Once we had been in junior excessive, the lecturers known as us by our final names, which I discover unusual from at present’s perspective.
You will not be taking part in live shows just like the one on the Grünland Competition in your outdated hometown of Steyr on June twenty eighth, however with a band. Does that change something?
The humorous factor is that it wasn’t the sound that mattered as a result of it is troublesome to carry a band sound to the stage. It must be combined properly. And finally it is also a monetary story as a result of I’ve to pay the musicians. However on stage it is much less static if you play with a band. 5 guys who specific themselves, that creates dynamism and communication on stage. An actual drum package creates a lot vitality and you’ll really feel the synergy of the musicians. It is all the time chaotic, however on the identical time you are following a very structured plan, however you are pushing it to the restrict to make one thing thrilling out of it.