I Recently Had The Great Pleasure Of Drawing This Poster For The You Are Here - Refugees Nrnbergproject.

I recently had the great pleasure of drawing this poster for the You are here - Refugees Nürnberg project. It’s a brilliant project, aiming to make all the great music, art, film, theatre and events happening in Nürnberg more accessible to refugees through a multilingual website and Facebook page. I’m mega happy to be able to support such a great project with this poster campaign!

Jana Kreisl

Second in what I plan to be a series of “map videos.” This is a tectonic map of the earth produced for the German school system in the 70′s. I see a strong correlation between maps and songs ... both take the infinite chaos of the world and shape it into something comfortingly comprehensible. Thousands of kilometres of rugged coastline represented with a simple line; an extended period of intense emotion reflected in a few minutes of organised sound. A map or a song can only ever be a shadow of the complex beauty that inspired their creation, but under the right circumstances they can shape a new reality with its own intrinsic beauty. A beauty that speaks authentically about the nature of human experience while being happily one step removed from the sometimes remorseless brutality of its crude state.

Sketchbook doodle.

Here is a video recorded by Andreas Basner of me playing at Bardentreffen last week. The song is called “Cheez whiz fantasy.”

New demo on soundcloud! Free download too!