TO THE BORDERLINE

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Now, in the middle of July, I am back home in beautiful Austria. But a few weeks ago I was still in Bali and travelling around Southeast Asia.

As a person who uses her music to express her feelings and talk about situations (to herself), I was struggling a bit while travelling, because we weren't able to find a piano. The lucky girl I am, Oscar decided to buy himself an acoustic guitar and I was very honoured to use it too. Most people know that my guitar skills are very limited to basic chords and a few picking patterns, so I wanted to get to know this beautiful instrument a bit more. During playing around for a few days/weeks - this song kinda just happened.

The story behind this song is a little behind confusing as the first verse is about a different situation than the second and third one. The first verse is about not wanting to lose someone, about how horrible it would feel to just let that one person go and "turn your back to" and about how beautiful this life we have actually is.

 The second and third verse are about certain people (or let's say one certain person)  whose attitude towards life and life decisions I don't quite understand and I wish this person could see it like I do or at least try to. A person whose feelings I seem to have hurt, because of what I said and how I tried to see the big picture. I am kinda sorry about that but at the same time I am not - it's a very weird feeling so I decided to express it through a song.

Filming this video wasn't a big a challenge as I just sat down and wonderful Oscar filmed the whole thing with his camera. Buuuuuuuuut getting this video up on Youtube was a pain in the ass, because we didn't have a laptop with us. At first we tried getting the video on our phones but that didn't work out. We were very lucky when our "french neighbours" from our homestay, Caroline and Patrice (two of the nicest people I've ever met) offered us to use their laptop. And this is the story about how this video finally made it up on Youtube.

Lyrics:

so sleep in my golden breath

I would rather die a silver death

than to have this picture of you

as a person I've turned my back to

now come running through these gentle woods

and see this world just like I would

as a life we've built with no regrets

where we sleep in our shiny nets

now run

through the borderline x2

now run

through the borderline

and see what's behind

now weep as much as you have to

but realise that it's just stopping you

from daring to make that one step

that could bring you closer to what you've dreamed

now run

through the borderline x2

now run

through the borderline

and see what's behind

I was never trying to hurt you

I was hoping you could see like I do

that we have the power of changing

and turn our backs to what's us trapping

now try 

to run to the borderline

to the borderline

now try

to run to the borderline

and see what's behind

my view while filming

Oscar's view (without me of course)

MARIE'S DAD

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alright - so as I already said in the description box of the Youtube video, I wrote this song exactly one year ago. Like all of my songs, it is a very personal topic to me that I am singing about. But this time it's not just about me/my story. It's also about my long-time-primary-school-to-highschool-best friend and her dad. I am not going to explain the story any further as the lyrics of the song already say enough.

For the video I decided to film a beach in Antalya.  I couldn't make it to the funeral, because I had booked this trip to Antalya weeks before, but I still wanted to capture this moment, therefore I filmed the waves crashing on the beach for three minutes.

Lyrics:

so my mom called and told me that you left the world on Saturday

it feels like yesterday when we performed our self-written plays for you

so it's Sunday and it's beautiful outside

but I don't understand why the sky doesn't cry

or is heaven happy 'cause there is a new angel ready to fly?

So now it's Tuesday and your wife send an invitation for saying goodbye

I'll probably never understand why people have to go after all

It's still Tuesday and it's depressed grey outside

so now the sky decided to finally cry

but heaven is happy 'cause there is a new angel ready to fly

so quickly painfully torn away

the rest of us just has to stay

and all that is left here of you

is how you made our hearts laugh for you

Santa Baby Cover // musician edition

It was December 21, 2018 and I was bored as hell. I actually had a concert on that day at Cafe Kaiserfeld (which was really cool by the way) and had nothing else to do than practice for that concert. I always knew that I wanted to cover a Christmas song, but I never got to that point where I actually did it. A couple of days before December 21 I was partying with friends, getting a bit tipsy, talking about music (Christmas songs in particular) and one girl had the great idea of covering Santa Baby. And I thought "Oh well, the original lyrics are shit so why not make my own version?". So this is how I ended up in my pjs, two days later, changing the lyrics of Santa Baby, recording the whole thing and making the most stupid music video, that has ever existed, in one day.

I know that this blogpost is very late, but if you happen to watch my video now in February, have fun! 

Lyrics:

Santa baby, slip a keytar under the tree for me

Been an awful good girl

Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a 61 midi keyboard too, 

light blue

I'll wait up for you, dear

Santa baby, and  hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the mics I’ve kissed

Now think of all the chords that I haven't missed

Next year I could be also good

If you'll check off my Christmas list

Santa baby, I want a mic and really that's not a lot

Been an angel all year

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa honey one thing that I really do need, the code

To an ableton live

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a drum pad and gigs

Sign your 'x' on the line

Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Come and trim my Christmas tree

With decorations from the korg company

I really do believe in you

Now let's see if you believe in me

Santa baby, forgot to mention one thing for me, LP

I don't mean someone else’s

Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight 

Hurry down the chimney tonight 

Hurry, tonight    

But Art Will Grow

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alright alright

I know this blogpost is very overdue, but I was actually planning to write a big ass post about the premiere of this music video at the cinema, the whole day, add pictures we took and explain everything that happened in detail.

Turned out we actually had more video footage of that day than pictures so there's actually going to be a super cool video about that day, kinda like a vlog I guess?, with a new song too. So stay tuned for that one!

and for everyone who is confused by me talking about a premiere in a cinema - here's a short explanation:

a couple of months ago a very good friend of mine, Elisa, was told to make a short draft for a music video for University and luckily I was the one she asked to do it with. After finishing that short draft we decided (or I convinced her?) to make a whole music video out of it. So we filmed more footage and months later the baby was finished. Because it was the "very first traditional professional typical music video" I wanted to give it the attention it deserved and decided to show it for the first time in a cinema. Not just any cinema, but the amazing KIZ RoyalKino (the cinema that I actually work at. coincidence? I think not.) Long story short: on December 16, 2018 I ended up having a SOLD OUT music video premiere and a concert at a cinema. It was one of the best days of my whole life.

Video by Elisa Wüntscher

Lyrics:

When I was younger

Just weeks ago

I still remember

the pain and sorrow

now I tell myself

The past is past

and our love mess

could never last

so I try to forget the good memories that still please my heart

slowly I realise that it takes time to heal 

but art will grow

When I am older

I have one wish

I want a soul there

 who feels the same

so I make a wish

for that special one

while in my head I quietly realise

that I need to be that one

so I try to forget the good memories that still please my heart

slowly I realise that it takes time to heal 

but art will grow

Dreamin' feat. Packed Rich

OK soooooooo

Back in May this year, I met this really cool dude in Vienna and we sort if clicked from the first moment we met. We had really long talks about music up to the moment when we decided that we could actually write/record a song together.

The lyrics of " Dreamin' " are just pretty random phrases that I had stuck in my head on that day, because I was quite mad at the way some universities treat music and in general how some people tend to think about life n stuff. So I was glad to put these thoughts into a new song.

I was just randomly singing these phrases of how I thought they could fit the piano parts that he had improvised before. We recorded it and just a couple of days later Alexis sent me this rad song. I was super happy with the result and I am even happier to share it with everyone else.

The music video contains some recordings that I've made while driving to Vienna and back. I later put them on my laptop and got creative with the Kaleidoscope effect. well, I kinda escalated with that effect 'cause I thought it looked super cool

Listen to Ornithology EP:
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Packed Rich's links:

soundcloud.com/packed-rich-instrumentals

facebook.com/packedrich

instagram.com/packed_rich

oh and Alexis drew my name.
thought it looked pretty cool so I had to put it here

all they do is run and run

trying to get to the sun

cursing at the rain

they might call us insane

'cause we refuse staying the same

'cause we still have hope in our hopeless dreams