#4 KEYS - a love declaration about and towards music

Welcome to Edition #4 of my newsletter where I introduce the songs from my album "WORK LIFE BALANCE" one by one with some context and behind-the-scenes information.

Today I am introducing my song KEYS - watch and listen to it here:

WHY I WROTE IT

Love songs have existed as long as music and singing have been around, and I always found it fascinating how the theme of love surpassed cultures, time and genres.

Whoever went through some classical music training like I did also has been learning some latin words for different expressions while playing the music (e.g. crescendo = louder, accelerando = accelerated).

So the question I asked myself when writing this song was: how would a declaration of love sound like while using music jargon and analogies?

BEHIND THE MUSIC

• The song starts with the infamous love ballad wind chimes that we all got very familiar with in the 90s - and I just always wanted to start a song with those!
• The instrument landscape is getting increasingly rich - it starts with piano only and then step by step more instruments from the orchestra join it, reflecting the meaning and evolution of love
• Who recognizes the small little minuet echo at 1:17?

FUN FACTS

• This song was one of the hardest songs for me to record - the lyrics came together pretty quickly, but I couldn't find the way it should sound after many days
• The piano solo at 3:09 was initially not in the recording, but I realized that a song that depicts music on such a meta level needed an instrumental part - and this is how this came together

In the next edition, I will introduce Track #5 of my album: OVERTIME.

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