Once

A small film about light, transitions, and the things that remain when you let go.

An orchestra that slowly turns into a breath.

A rhythm that appears late, but has been there all along.

Maybe it’s spring. Maybe it’s fall.
Maybe both at the same time.

From my album "Black In Green", available on Bandcamp and everywhere else.

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You never fully know where you’re going. But at some point, you stop waiting and begin.

Not with a map. Not with a plan. But with your mind wide open to the quiet signs, the unexpected turns, the moments that feel like coincidence but guide you like a compass in the snow.

You didn’t search for them. But they found you anyway.

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Some things keep glowing even after the flame is gone.

Not in the way they once were,
but in the air around you, in the quiet places of your heart, where what’s gone still finds a way to stay.

Sometimes music holds that glow. It keeps the shape of feelings
that would otherwise fade. It carries dreams from the past into the rhythm of the present.

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Right before you leap, you feel your heart more clearly.

Not because it’s afraid, but because it’s ready.

A small thing you carried with you catching the light in the snow as you keep moving.

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These songs don’t match. And they don’t have to. Different moods, different tones, different origins. Placed next to each other, they form something larger than any of them could alone. Some contrasts only work when you let them stand side by side.

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Now and Then began in 2002 and found its second half in 2025. While finishing it, something unexpected happened: my daughter added a small vocal part. A quiet moment, but one that changed the song.

Some traces stay with you, even when they appear in the simplest places.

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These songs weren’t written in one moment. Some reach back decades, others belong to now. Between them are the invisible strings you can’t prove but sometimes feel when they start to resonate.

Some things stay attached, others break free and show up again years later.

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Somewhere along the way I realized that this album wasn’t made by just one version of me.

We all carry a small team inside, the adventurous one, the anxious one, the hungry one, the realist, the dreamer. Letting them all speak is part of being whole.

And on this album, they do.

Different types, different truths, standing together in one place. Even the ones we almost forget until we stumble upon them again.

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In the story “Low Men in Yellow Coats” in Stephen King’s fantastic book “Hearts in Atlantis”, a young boy gets lost on the wrong side of town. At least that’s what his mother tells him. His whole life will take a different path after the experience,

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“Shine” is a song about media overload and how to deal with it in Your everyday life.

Every day we’re bombarded with news or, even worse, fleeting and misleading impressions about the world around us. These impressions don’t paint a picture of reality or make You smarter and more understanding, but, if not filtered by a moderating mind, distort everything, like a badly damaged guitar-amp.

So what to do?

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