.beyond the surface.

Background music to this post Olafur Arnalds

I don't know yet,if I'm gonna post this blog. Sometimes I write, just to delete it :) I'm sure, you've all done it before. When you write sth with no obligation to post it,or send it to someone, you write without hesitations.. you don't really think about which words to use, you're honest and free.
Lately I've been asking myself, why we're not as honest as we would like to be. We were all children once. What happened? Where's our sincerity, our purity, our playfulness, our LOVE... Have you asked yourself, what happened to the dreams you've once been after, you've chased so passionately... and you felt so alive! I wish everyone would follow their dream. Just for the path's sake!

Sometimes I observe people on the street, passing by. Carrying their heavy worries, I can see them in their eyes. They've adapted and just went along with what was suitable, what was expected of them. I know by now, I'm not one of them. But at least now I realized that's not wrong! I still see the good in people. I know they dream, not only at night. I just wonder, how they live without the passion, that used to keep them SO alive! I hope for them, I really do.

I can't imagine life without music. Without the love of people, who inspire me each day. Without the nature with all it's beauty I see in it. Without the passion to see beyond the surface. Without a sunny day and my morning coffee. Without the sound of the nails on my guitar. I even can't imagine not being miserable.

die Scheiße

Die Scheiße (1964)/ Hans M. Enzensberger

Immerzu höre ich von ihr reden
als wäre sie an allem schuld.
Seht nur, wie sanft und bescheiden
sie unter uns Platz nimmt!
Warum besudeln wir denn
ihren guten Namen
und leihen ihn
dem Präsidenten der USA,
den Bullen, dem Krieg
und dem Kapitalismus?

Wie vergänglich sie ist,
und das was wir nach ihr nennen
wie dauerhaft!
Sie, die Nachgiebige,
führen wir auf der Zunge
und meinen die Ausbeuter.
Sie, die wir ausgedrückt haben,
soll nun auch noch ausdrücken
unsere Wut?

Hat sie uns nicht erleichtert?
Von weicher Beschaffenheit
und eigentümlich gewaltlos
ist sie von allen Werken des Menschen
vermutlich das friedlichste.
Was hat sie uns nur getan?

.the language of music.

I close my eyes and listen. I haven't heard such passionate playing in a long time. Flamenco with Pablo Guevara. I keep my eyes closed and follow the story he's telling through his guitar. Amazing the way his fingers move up and down that guitar neck. A beautiful,cheerful and complex melody develops into a sad, almost hurting one. It gets louder and rougher,I can hear the fingernails on the strings. Chills. I open my eyes, to look at his face. Every wrinkle goes hand in hand with the feeling of the song. He leans closer to the guitar, it almost looks like they're making love to each-other... it get's intimate and soft. In the next second a sudden stroke of his hand changes the mood. A cloud of emotions hovers over me. It's about to rain. After I see his teeth because of the pure intensity of his playing, he starts to sing. And it pours... I close my eyes and let go. Every cell of my body is weeping. I sit there still but my inside is dancing to the rhythm of flamenco. After a short silence, I open my eyes and we applaud. This was the first song and I'm glad my friend asked me to accompany him. We didn't need to speak or share what we felt, one look was enough. The sincerity, the passion and devotion to music that some people possess is incredible. I feel we understand each-other, speak the same language - the language of music.

"I'm convinced that the guitar must have been invented in a bar by some drunken Spaniard, some guy who'd just been kicked out of his house. I mean, you listen to it—you get it in tune in G and it's never in tune in E major, and when you get in tune E major it's not in tune in G. It's a beautifully chaotic instrument." JB

take off your pants!

Smee again:)

Yesterday me and Pero recorded a song we've made together a little while ago (2 years,lol). Back then it was a rough idea and now it got a fresh new desguise. Pero and me used to play in the band Spleen together, for almost 10 years. So I kind of know him like my own pocket (I don't care if this doesn't mean anything in english). I know that he's a great guitar player, has brilliant ideas and feels music. I always enjoyed making music with him and we still make a great team! I hope, he will help/join me more often. I guess I should do this publicly:

(kneeling down) :Pero,... would you...make music with me? :) okay, Spaß bei seite.Ups, back to English.

The recording session was fun, still laughing about Pero almost taking off his pants, cause the guitar would slip away all the time. Note: next time bring own guitar! Matej had some great ideas with duct tape (no,I didn't know how to spell that, I asked uncle Google), but that didn't go as well as we anticipated. So after the cable of the headphones had spontaneously turned out to be a successful solution, Pero started playing and I started singing. We did some very very cool takes and the idea will slowly develop into a great song!! Had so much fun that evening, being creative and laugh so much!!

This is Pero playing on Matej's beautiful mandoline! Sorry buddy, Mojca has to have some fun once in a while too :) enjoyyy!!

feel music

Yesterday's session with Jernej Kržič was awesome! I've never met such a talented young bassist, with so many ideas in his head and fingers!!And not only for the song he knew we had done..but also for sth he had never heard! I've already had the pleasure having him play for the mediocore project (all those who still count my many bands and projects,yes!that's one of them,u should totally check it out:))

We first listened to some German Hip-hop upstairs and after he had finished his pizza, he said, he's gonna record the best take ever!:) So after Matej got the smoothest sound out of all the ampegs and bassmen(lol), Jernej started to play. I enjoy watching him play so much. It looks so easy when he takes that journey along the bass guitar's neck. He feels it and he enjoys it so much - and so do I! Here's sth I recorded with my cell phone,.. while Jernej was improvising to a song,we eventually end up recording too.

Bless the people who feel music!