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Last summer with José Piña in June '24, Berlin - part 3

Good evening & hello to the new year :)

I started slowly and quietly into 2025 and - as you've probably noticed - took the first week off. That was nice. I honestly love the beginning of January, lots of people don't, I know, but to me it always feels like the world is still a bit asleep. It's okay to take longer to answer, to not be reachable all the time, to enjoy long mornings (cause the sun also still takes its time to get up too ^^) and to go for long winter walks. And that's b...

Happy new year! 🎇

Here is a little piano piece from me to welcome you in the new year, I wish you a wonderful transition tonight and hope that the next will be even better then the last one :)

Thank you for joining me here in my 2024, I’m really excited for 2025 & everything and everyone who‘s gonna come with it!

All the best, all the joy & love from Vienna!

xx

PS: in A major, music nerds might say it could also be E mixolydian (:

Merry Christmas from Berlin 🎄

Good evening everyone, I hope you're doing well! Here is a little personal voice message from me again, we haven't done that in quite some time, so I hope you'll enjoy it :)

If you celebrate it too - have a wonderful Christmas time with all your loved-ones, lots of delicious food and maybe even some snow!

All the best from Berlin & take care!

xx

PS: Daniel & I still have 3 prints left, write me a text if you're interested! :)
It's no. 141425 / 143036 / 1436...

True Blue - live at Sternatelier5, Vienna

This morning, when I thought about what I’ll share with you today, I immediately got the feeling that it’s gonna be my song ‚True Blue‘. You‘ve heard the earliest draft, as a piano improvisation back in Oct‘23 (it’s Sunday piano meditation no. 5!), then as a song draft, and I think I’ve never shared the finished song. Jamie and I took a while to complete the lyrics, I had some ideas before, but we only used my first verse and kept the Chorus (that one was set from the beginnin...

Sunday piano meditation - no. 36

Hellou there, it's piano sunday again! :) After having two busy gig days, this was the perfect chilled start into my day, really need some off-time now after having so many people swirling around me. But it was great honestly! The concert on friday (I was opening for Ani D.) went much smoother and sweeter than I expected, lots of people showed up in the end - and Ani was very happy with the whole show, which is probably the most important to me (he absolutely nailed it that night!). Yesterday...

Portuguese analogues + print update

Good evening from Berlin - I had some very social last days, with family and friends, and I must say that my social batteries are a bit in need of an alone-time-recharge now. However I will head out again in a few minutes to make my way to Kindl Stuben, Sonnenallee, Berlin to play at their traditional sunday eve open mic session, as promised. Always very sweet vibes there :)

Tomorrow I will meet Daniel A. to sign all the prints you've ordered within the last week! Then we can send them ...

Sain by Marius Nitzbon

A friend of mine asked me last week, if I could record a little snippet of me playing his newest release „Sain“ on my harp. It’s a bit slower than the original, but was the perfect lullaby for the friends who were staying over at my place last week (unfortunately they got really sick inbetween, while I played this they were resting and listening on the couch in the living room).

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More prints!

Hi there! Today I have exciting news! Daniel A. and I finally decided the new prints - and made this selection :)

As you can see there are four new pictures (initially we wanted to select three more but then couldn’t decide which one to exclude so we are gonna go for all four haha) - plus the three motives of the first edition.

So please, in order to see how many approximately we‘ll need, comment which one(s) you are interested it and I take note of that. You can also send m...

Summertime with José Piña - part 2

Hi there! You may have seen the first one of these on our Instagram accounts last week - so I thought I show you some more here :)

And I wanna tell you a little secret too: My first Single Cover ('I was a Dreamer) will be chosen from this summertime shoot by the lake. Hopefully I can bring some light into the dark winter months with it :)

Unfortunately I'll have a lot of bureaucracy things to handle within the next days (finish an album funding application, send material to an ar...

Weekly piano meditation - no. 35

Good evening everyone, here I am, belayed again - some sickness caught me and I'm still trying to get rid of it, the last days have felt very loopy, but it's getting better already. I went to a little Yin Yoga Session of a friend of mine last night and that was lovely for my mind and body - in general I'm really enjoying autumn this year (have I mentioned that already?) so I have no problem with sitting at home on the floor continuing my crotchet project or sewing a curtain for my front door ...

Summer by Daniel Anhut - part 2

Here is the second part of our summery shoot in Berlin, we'll also release our second prints editition soon - it will be homestories pictures again, but eventually I'll use those nature shots too, still very happy how they turned out :)

Besides that I'm still having busy days, lots of friends I met all around Europe within the last years are in Vienna this autumn and my mum is arriving today too! So it has been a very social, cozy fall so far; also an exciting one - my first Single is g...

Sunday piano meditation - no. 34 (belated)

Hi there! Yesssss, it is piano meditation time again! I'm so excited about having my cute pianino here with me in my new flat, finally! It was about time :))

I played this melody for the first time right before the transportation company arrived at my old place, on Tuesday morning. I heard it and thought, uhh I can use this idea for the first recording at my new flat, when I'm finally able to upload a piano piece for you again. And here it is. I kind of lost track of the tonalities with...

Analogues from September '24

I'm over and over again so happy about this tiny analogue Agfa camera from my grandfather - its a small format camera, so it can fit up to 80 photos on one normal 36 pictures film, which gives me the freedom to fool around and take shots of anything I like, without the pressure of just 36 frames, yay :)

These ones were taken during September, partly Vienna and partly in Berlin.

1. my little cactus collection on our balcony (the left ones are the babies of the tall one on the rig...

Final Studio Session 3/5 - ‚Lose Myself‘

Heyyy there! It's time for some music again :)

This is a sneakpeak from my upcoming album, finally, it's getting real (ahhhh). The last studio days are over now, Tim & I had five more sessions within the last week to really get stuff done and ready for mastering. Who released music themselves already knows howwwww much work it is to get the perfect sound, the perfect arrangement, the perfect feeling and artwork and so much more. Every album is a whole piece of art and I have the big...

Berlin suburban fields with José Piña, June ‘24

Sunday piano meditation - no. 33

Hi there! Guess what, today I have a (belated) piano improvisation for you! And I'm actually sitting again in my home in Vienna, yesterday's trip was a wild one... But I made it in the end. :)

For the ones who haven't heard of it - big parts of Austria are either flooded or under heavy snowfalls, the last week here was crazy, many people have lost their homes, villages had to be evacuated, some people died... It's quite shocking and never happened like this before. Vienna is mostly okay...

Little life update from Berlin :)

Hi there, so many new people joined here in the last days! So I thought it‘d be nice to give you a personal welcoming voice note - have a great Friday night and thank you for being here! :)

PS: I recorded it this afternoon right before the shoot with Domeni G., new pictures gonna come soon!

Prints with Daniel Anhut (and some analogues)

Good evening everyone!

I‘m sending you this from my couch, after tidying up most of the construction stuff, tools, laying around wood for the kitchen counter etc. - doing everything possible yourself is fun but also exhausting (but yay, most of the kitchen makeover is done now, finally!).

I’m again unfortunately not able to send you a piano piece, the move of my precious instrument friend will be postponed to October, when I’m relaxed and back from my next weeks travels. Do...

Good night (guten Abend, gut' Nacht) - lyrics

When I don't remember dreaming

I know you've been watching me

When I see your clouded mind drowning again

I hear you singing to me, I hear you now

I cut flowers in your garden

they smelled just like you did yesterday

tried to choose the ones that you'd dry upside down

I think you'd like them, honey

I think you would

Good night, my love

I'll tuck you in and dim the lights like you did

when I was little still

...

First results by Daniel Anhut

Hi there & my apologies that I didn't write to you last sunday - the last weeks have been intense for me. First that summerjob, then packing and moving to a new place, which we are still renovating these days. Not gonna lie, I'm really happy about all of this, but also quite exhausted right now.
At this time last sunday we had just finished moving all the furniture, instruments, plants & boxes to the new place (I moved from the 5th to the 18th district within Vienna) and we were si...

Good Night (Guten Abend, gute Nacht) - demo

Hey there - I've been working in Klosterneuburg all week long, walking an immense amount of steps per day, talking to a lot to customers - and apparently lost my voice doing that... So I'll share my latest finished demo with you, which I recorded on 2nd of August. I made small lyric changes since then, but overall it stayed the same. I find it very soothing, basically feels like what the lyrics tell the listener - they contain a reference to a german lullaby, I broadly quoted the lines of its...

Throwback to Italy 🌊

Some more photographic insights from the sailing trip I did in June - really missing the ocean right now!

I will work the whole week in Vienna on a wine competition, it’s fun but also very physically exhausting, so forgive me if I’m not very talkative today. Yesterday I was also on the move the whole time so I couldn’t get the post ready - in the evening I spontaneously watched the movie ‚Stop Making Sense‘ from Talking heads in my favorite cinema here in Vienna - it was great...

New german song with Max Nitsch :)

Today I want to share a new song with you - I wrote it this week with my dear friend Max, whom I have a german duo project with (Nitsch&Verano, as simple as that, haha). We played in Graz, Austria last Thursday and wanted to perform this one, so we needed to finish writing the lyrics - and I love how they turned out! Honestly the best lyrics we wrote together in my opinion, I really like the rhyme scheme and how the words we used fit into each other. I will share the original lyrics here,...

Sunday morning podcast - no. 3

Hellou dear ones, today I want to share a (not so) little voice note I recorded exactly one week ago. I needed to think a little longer if I want to upload it or not - but I really felt what I said there, so maybe you feel it too.

I'm talking about going to Milano there - now I'm already back in Vienna, I really enjoyed the short time there, my host was super sweet (and I absolutely fell in love with his cat Fatima haha so cute!). I feel like I could talk about my spontaneous Italy tri...

Analogues from Tuscany & Corsica, June '24

These are some photos from my small analogue Agfa Camera (with a Kodak Ultra Max film). I took them during the first week of June, when I was traveling between Italy and France. I honestly love the colours and the atmosphere, really really happy how they turned out. :)

Looking at them made me realise how much I've been on the move during the last month, first those holidays and then gigs in Berlin and St. Gallen - and in a few days I'll be traveling to Milano, to record some harp t...

Sunday piano draft - no. 3 (belated)

Hellou & good evening - I'm back home! Unfortunately I spent my whole Sunday sitting in a train from Switzerland (Murg, St. Gallen to be precise) to Vienna, so I couldn't record anything for you there. I thought about sending you a little podcast again, but honestly that constant monotonous train noise in the background isn't very pleasing... So here we are now. :)

I was playing at the wedding of a friend of mine, it was a gorgeous place on the shore of a ...

Sunday piano meditation - no. 32

Hellou there, and back to the roots, back to the piano meditation Sunday - I have returned from Berlin and am back in Vienna now! Even though, I took the chance to record this piece ,shortly before leaving my mums place, on her old Blüthner piano. I like to have variation :)

Today and this week I am preparing the next performances, I also definitely needed some time alone at home after being so social for pretty much three weeks in a row, not gonna lie... I have to play a wedding next ...

Golden Hour Performance @SofarSounds Berlin

Little impression of my concert last Friday - I was so lucky that the sunset light was shining directly on me while I was playing. It created such a magical atmosphere and fit perfectly with my set :)

Also I had the pleasure to meet some really lovely people there! Lots of likeminded and creative artists, I hope my next time at SofarSounds will come soon! Can’t wait :)

Podcast no. 2 - Berlin diary

Hellou there! As you can see I'm talking about plenty of things in this voice message, recapturing what happened during the last weeks since I talked last to you :)

I will briefly type down all the things and other artists I've mentioned, in order to give them credits and you the opportunity to check them out, if you like:

• the sailing crew I was traveling with is https://pirates-of-paradise.com (g...

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Holidays in shades of blue & pink

some analogue impressions of last weeks, freshly developed today - love the vibe and the colours of them. And I'm so so so happy, that I could be part of this experience (again). Wish I'd still be there, but I arrived back in Vienna this morning.

Might record another travel-podcast about my last days, honestly they were quite adventurous :)

Credits to M.G.

PS: Oh, and the last picture is my first try of a header! Haven't done one for more than 10 years and was quite scared...