Last day in Vancouver!

Hey there!So, I just spent two really amazing weeks in Vancouver. I also spent some time on Galliano Island and in Whistler. The wildlife and the whack out nature there is something I won't forget. I saw so many animals. A beaver, a hummingbird, deer, seals, minks a eagle and a bear! I played a show in the boathouse club for Vancouver city limits, busked downtown and had a new song recorded for the greencouch sessions that will be released in a week or two! I am flying to Toronto tomorrow where I will be recording. Next blog will follow soon!

Last Friday I flew to Holland! Amsterdam is really pretty and crazy fun! I spent a great time there. I also saw Utrecht Now I’m home again and just got my new cards from the printers that I will be able to give away at shows! My friend Andrea , who is also a talented photographer made them for me! I’m so pleased! Getting ready now for my trip to Canada now. I’m pretty excited! Keep tuned for some more news soon!

Along the sound!

In February last year I got a mail from the Cologne based photographer Sabine Kocem. She had been taking photos of musicians for quite a while and had come up with the idea of making an Art-Photography-Book. She decided to ask musicians from around the world to contribute lyrics or poems to the pictures she had taken. So when the first poems and lyrics arrived her photos took on a whole new life, building a bridge from the photos about music to words from music! I really liked the idea right from the beginning. So after looking through her wonderful album I picked a photo showing three street musicians in total concentration. There was so much life and movement in that picture that I had some ideas and images coming up real fast! Listening to Sigur Ros album Heim I began to write the poem, “Niroda” meaning the cessation of suffering and the attainment of Nirvana in the sense that when we really manage to dive into the music then we can let go of our ego and really be in the present moment. Sounds like it’s complicated but I mean it in a really simple way, in the sense of just becoming a child again. “I was the chanting and the rolling in this single state of creed The truth beneath the surface of conviction, the crimson blood at speed I was the very purpose of your breathing inside this mortal Pail of sand, the stinging of the nettles and the vigour in your hand. I was the whisper of departure, the only voice that cannot ever lie And the clashing of intentions in the breaking of the sky. I was the oil field and the missing phrase you lost at sea, the primrose In the battle of the fall and the psalm you chiselled on the wall I was the beat of every heavy drum, the pulsing moment of assembly for all the years to come”

When I got her book last week I really enjoyed reading all the different lyrics and poems that have been inspired by the her wonderful work. You can check out or buy her book on the following websites: :www.picturedistrict.de :www.blurb.com/bookstore Kudos to Sabine!