originally posted on Jan.10th on Facebook.
“I haven’t been releasing music since 2019 and some people have been asking how so.
In the past yers there’s been so much going on inside and outside that it did not feel quite right to come up with new stuff. On one hand, the pandemic invited me to reflect about a quintessential question: what are we making art for?
Such question kept me busy for at least a year, where I had musically nothing to say. Instead, I did lots of gardening and when I was ready, I went back to live performances with a new gear and a different self-perception, perhaps more emancipated, surely with less hair on my skull.
Such artistic mid-life crisis led me to the understanding that we are overloaded by fast, disposable and questionable content, and that our ability to stay focussed and appreciative as both viewers and creators has been severely compromised.
The promises of artificial intelligence and digitalisation are slowly killing the process of making art and the skillset for reading and artwork and appreciating it.
Things became fast: the urge to come up and release new content to keep the algorithm horny regardless what we really have to say is something I perceive as delusional and destructive.
How about the beauty of a slow-paced creative process? I wonder when that turned into a luxury.
I believe we have scared the muse, and our crisis is both spiritual and political.
Our modern artist seem to have lost the interest and the courage of taking position and be the voice of dissent, the immune system against the tyranny of conformity. Instead, we ended up working for the system. Call it a big corporate like Spotify or call it a state funding institution who finances only specific work, restricting and censuring whatever voice has something different to say ( look at Germany today).
If we look at the state of the world, at the current state of humanity, an intention is needed. Someone argued that we need to keep creating beauty for the world to heal.
What I see, is that most of us became numb to it. So, what is the point of it, if such beauty can be hardly perceived, while at the same time tragedy has been normalised?
I believe we need to start surfing beauty to address issues that go beyond our little ego bubble and to be clear in our intentions. This is the time where the artist becomes the warrior and the healer, not the pleaser.
For this 2025 I would like to manifest an art which comes from that powerful, relentless uncompromising place. An art which can heal and guide, touch and shake up.
Soon I will present a few project I’ve been working on almost secretly over the last 2-3 years. Projects that have been incubating, marinating, fermenting and taking shape.
The most ambitious one has been the production of a new documentary film, which is now under completion and will see the light in the coming months.
The other project is a musical project, and it is called , and this is the one I wanted to present in this post, before it became a philosophical rant, but now I guess I will need to make a new post for that purpose.
I am also gonna finally set up a regular newsletter, as I see little hope in continuing here on this platform…
(Picture credit: Antoine Dutrieu, Rajasthan 2014)”