Can't help it - just once more singing about memories. And of course once more blasting them up to a "larger-than-life" level. But this time it is intention: This is how it has never been, but could have. The dream goes on.
It is also the second wonderful co-op with Raphael Jung (from @raffeludio8972).

Note that there are some credits at the end about the animated backgrounds I've used for the video.

The first one I created together with a former co-musician: Raphael Jung (from @raffeludio8972).
He finally enabled me to bring my songs even more to life with REAL drums and REAL bass guitars!
It is about a really nasty experience in my real life with people who are nice and shiny on the outside, but absolutely ugly bad-asses once you cross their ways without intention and without knowing how you pissed them off. Staying away from such guys (and learning to know them from a distance) is key to a happier life! This is my "love song" for the likes of them.

This one grew from a confusing time of feeling tired, worn-out, growing old, and loosing the grip on music somehow. It was the one that helped me get up and regain some faith and strength - managing to look FORWARD towards age instead of clinging to lost things.
Someone said, it's nice, but "maybe a bit overproduced" - I confess that they might be right. But I like it that way ;-) Staying away from such guys (and learning to know them from a distance) is key to a happier life! This is my "love song" for the likes of them.

I believe that with this one I managed to achieve at least some improvment (in terms of technical and musical "robustness"). But at the same time I consider it waaay too long-drawn out and pathetic (if not cheesy).
But that's the thing with nostalgia. The first, inoffical working title was "Traces". It's a reference to strong and warm memories of old live-band times, with REAL fellow-musicians on REAL stages. So I couldn't keep myself from wining a bit and blasting my memories up to larger-than-life romantics ;-)

Still not much of an improvement in terms of technical quality, but I loved this one so much that I don't bother if it may come across clumsy and shaky, out of tune or timing, or if I should have been playing around a bit too much again with half-understood video effects. The basic idea for the song itself came from frequently encountering a homeless guy outside, living on the street near my place, slowly falling into alcoholism. He gave me puzzles over weeks, trying to imagine what his life would feel like, or if I'd ever be able to understand such things. For some weird reasons, he seemed quite happy, and also so much out of this world, so unreachable, that I could never tell what to make out of it. I was pitying him, but also thinking that he was long beyond pitying. In the end, this song is probably mostly telling about my own disability to properly deal with such situations - but rather standing back and watching and being clueless.

This is still one of my most clumsy first attempts. From apparently weak vocals, over lo-fi recording quality to erratic mixing and video editing...
Still I had so much fun creating it and struggling to get it to life that I am sharing it anyway.

How it all began in 2017 - with a crazy idea.
I have never been a pro, and never will be. My recording booth construction was made from comparably cheap materials, little up-front elaboration - and from spontaneous enthusiasm of "finally creating my own music again after years of silence". My aim was to create something that could be built up and taken down again in less than 45 minutes in my living room on days when I was alone at home. It should just do the most simple tricks for recording. That's how it looked like in the first live testing.