Band Members

After the first work, "Neuland", was born, I thought, "Good, now you just keep collecting ideas and somehow you'll record a new CD"… Then one day at a festival where Schandmaul and the Letzte Instanz were playing, the question came up whether I would like my solo project to be the opening act for the "Letzte Instanz Acoustic Tour". I was a bit skeptical at first, because I didn't know how I would finance a tour, or who I could appear with live.

Somebody suggested that we 'horse-trade' :- ). I could play viola with them in the quartet, and in exchange I would get their drummer Specki T.D. and their bass player Michael Ende. No sooner said, than done - it was an unforgettably beautiful tour, almost exclusively in sold-out churches all across Germany. Back home again, we decided to continue playing together as a trio, and soon found ourselves in a rehearsal room to write new songs. Soon afterwards Günther Gebauer came on board as producer, and collaborated in the material wholeheartedly from the very beginning.

Unlike "Neuland", where we put the cart before the horse by arranging the violins first, then the bass, and only recorded the drums at the end, for "Saitensprung" we arranged the pieces as a trio from the very beginning, playing them live in concerts and smoothing them out for a year, before finally recording them all together twice in one week to keep forever.

It was an incredibly productive, strenuous, but also great time in the studio in an old forester's house in Gaibach in Frankenland. Every day began with a hearty breakfast together and ended with a dinner cooked brilliantly by 3-star chefs Günther and/or Specki, a good slug of whisky and plenty of world-improving philosophical discussion.