“Tangled in Moonlight” is the name of an instrumental version of a song which will be part of my upcoming full-length album. The song is inspired by a true story that took place in the area in which I currently live (western Slovakia/eastern Austria) during the Kingdom of Hungary. Without prematurely giving away the story behind the song, the moonlight can be thought of as creative inspiration, particularly musical inspiration. And to be tangled in it is to be washed by it, surrounded by it, captured in it.
Artists devote great amounts of time to their craft. And that is why I will once again be disappearing into my “den”—the metaphorical place where I imagine, construct, record…
When I was in my early thirties, I had an art teacher who taught us to surround ourselves with our ideas in process. We made sketches in pencil, ink, and charcoal, and hung them on the walls around us as we worked toward a finished piece.
I do the same when I make music. I have to imagine it before I can devise a plan to make it a reality. Then it’s composing, practicing, recording, layering, thinking, getting the technicalities right, and then composing some more.
So far, this album in progress has taken me to the small town of Dolná Krupá, Slovakia; Vienna, Austria; and Jostedalsbreen, Norway, to name just a few of the places. I like to carry a hand-held recorder when I travel to capture everything from rain to bell chimes, and occasionally these sounds make it into my songs. “Anticipation” is a classical guitar and cello instrumental in which an Austrian rainstorm acts as the background texture.
The music video for the romantic “Energy of Stars” was filmed in Mikulov, a quaint town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Angeliki Georgantidi and Lukáš Bezdíčka, two close friends who live in the Czech Republic, star in the video.
On a slow stroll in Vienna, I spontaneously began humming the melancholy “Thinking Too Much,” a song about seeing a familiar face in a crowd and wondering if it’s a face you’ve known from the past.
And more songs are on the way—they’re just hiding somewhere, waiting to be revealed.
So, if you don’t see me much over the coming months, it’s because I’m bringing new music to life, hunched over my worktable in a mixing room somewhere in western Slovakia.