Dear friends,
Sometimes I stop and remember:
resounding in inner images
my life through me
like the wind through a forest.
The quiet time between Christmas and New Year is predestined like no other to press the stop button, let go and take a walk with your thoughts.
This year I’ve done a lot to push the release of my new album and still keep a reasonably balanced pace of life.
It was not that easy, because with all the considerations that I went through in the middle of the year after the studio recordings were completed, I decided in the end that I wanted to do things completely on my own.
I can’t spit big sounds like:
“Reach and independence are always reciprocally related. I always accept a shorter range for greater independence. Rather a so-called option too little than a dependency and external determination too much – content and form, i.e. the WHAT, the HOW and the WHY must match”.
… and then ducking away and buckling in front of the resulting consequences – namely, more and sometimes more not so pleasant work for me.
So this year I was a lot of producer, financial controller, publisher, booker, public relations worker, discussion partner, design coordinator, record boss, in short my own manager and broker. And so it will continue in the first months of the new year….
Despite all of this, I made important new experiences and learning processes.
photo by Tino Pohlmann
There was the time in the recording studio. I had to learn to deal with my own expectations and the audible results on a relaxed level:
You can hear everything in the studio – the ingenious little details and moments, as well as the many small and smallest imbalances and inconsistencies. Getting that into a coherent unit is a challenge.
Also worth mentioning is the piano concert evening at this year’s More Ohr Less Festival, which I played together with Vìkingur Ólafson and Hans Joachim Rödelius.
In view of Vìkingur’s pianistic and interpretive hi-end class, I was close to the emotional and emotional meltdown: composed of the enthusiasm to be able to listen to him that evening and the bottomless panic of immediately stepping onto the podium and playing …
I experienced exemplary sovereignty and emotionality in a harmonious and personal way with both Vìkingur and Hans Joachim.
Photo by Tino Pohlmann
A great end to the (concert) year was November 16 at “silent green”, which for me, alongside the “funkhaus”, is the most beautiful and best venue for modern classical music in Berlin: as part of Arnold Kasar’s fantastic piano concert, I was allowed to perform as his “special guest ”.
The circle closes with a notice:
On June 13, 2020 I will play my big Berlin concert
at “silent green” as part of the planned tour.
And this time my friend and dear colleague
Arnold Kasar will be “special guest”.
Which brings us to the outlook for the new year:
There will be an album.
The album will have the title “No Ordinary Moments”.
The design of an art book for the album is in progress.
The album & the book are scheduled for release in April 2020.
Organizing a concert tour of the album is in progress.
I will keep you up to date on all current news via newsletter, my website and Facebook (announcements for the album, “vernissage” for album/book- release in Berlin, forthcoming tour dates, videos, etc.). Promised!
The last hours of the year have started.
I wish you a peaceful and successful New Year.
Best wishes
Harald