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- Lockdown Spaces is a dark, minimalist, and claustrophobic album. It’s my gift to fans for these uneasy lockdown times. Lockdown makes me think of a square, of a pixel, which is why I decided that my new music would feature a lot of pixelated electronics. (en)
- Lockdown Spaces addressed the theme of confinement caused by external factors. Claustrophobic Universe spoke about the desire to escape the chaos of the surrounding reality. In contrast, Interior Drawings is a story about what the process of thought flow looks like and what happens in the mind of a person who decides to create a project. The symbolic “drawing” samples that appear throughout the album can represent anything: writing a novel, painting a picture, directing a film, designing an architectural project, composing a music album, or any other creative process that begins with the proverbial “blank page. (en)
- Claustrophobic Universe is the second part of the new trilogy that I decided to create during the lockdowns with electronic instrumental music—the kind I used to make as a teenager, recording on cassettes using a Grundig tape recorder. The fact that these “lockdown” albums are now released only on cassette tapes is directly related to my past and those early beginnings, which truly shaped me as a musician. (en)
- I was mainly looking for albums with elaborate keyboard parts, because I had to find some common ground between prog rock and my favorite electronic music. Naturally, bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer came into the picture. I also remember listening to Marillion a lot. (en)
- Each of us is afraid of something. Especially in today’s difficult and uncertain times. Each of us struggles with our own demons, with our fears. We probably won’t get rid of them. But we can learn to live with them. We can gain distance from them. We can also ensure they don’t dominate our lives. That’s what the album AFR AI D is mainly about—about taming our nightmares. (en)
- Riverside is a band in which melody has always been the most important element. Personally, I don’t have a knack for jumping all over the fretboard—it’s boring to me and not particularly appealing—but I can write a beautiful song and sing or play a catchy melody. That’s what I stick to and build both my and the band’s style around. I’m a melancholic by nature, which is why Riverside has a lot of sad melodies—but those are simply the ones I like the most, even though I try to escape from them from time to time. Nevertheless, melancholic rock doesn’t bother me, and I think it suits our music better than progressive rock or progressive metal. (en)
- Ever since I can remember, I always preferred creating my own sounds. I would take the key to the piano room, sneak through those dark corridors, lock the door, toss my backpack aside, and instead of practicing the assigned pieces, I’d start fiddling around with my own stuff. (en)
- Music is my therapy. I create because it helps me cope with my personal demons. I realize that much of my music—especially this third musical world based mainly on electronic music—is the most personal in that regard. I don’t think about how people will receive it; I just want to get rid of negative thoughts. Here, I focused primarily on myself and started creating music that may not be particularly listenable to a broader audience. In Riverside and Lunatic Soul, I do think about my listeners—I’d be lying if I said I don’t care about them. But when I create electronic music, I no longer do it for them—I do it mainly for myself. Maybe that’s why this musical world isn’t as popular as Riverside or Lunatic Soul, and not just because it’s mostly instrumental music. Here, I’m simply taking more care of my own therapy. (en)
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