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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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On January 23, But Live It will be released on Bandcamp, including two bonus tracks that won’t be part of the wide release on February 15.

Both songs are part of the album, but only on Bandcamp.

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Sometimes the weight you feel is only a story you tell yourself.

And when life becomes light again, there’s an emptiness in the ease, a quiet longing for some gravity that feels like truth.

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There are moments when you catch your own reflection and realize how far you’ve already walked without noticing the distance.

It’s good to stay in motion, to keep moving through the cold, through the questions, through the quiet parts of yourself.

But every now and then you have to look up and remember the sky above you. The clouds drifting, the light shifting, the world opening for a second just wide enough to remind you why you’re still walking.

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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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Sometimes you find something that carries you forward, long before you know where it leads.

A quiet shape in your pocket, a weight that feels like memory, a key you didn’t know you’d been holding.

And when you finally turn it, you realize it opens more than one door,
not just to music, but to something written between the lines.

Maybe that’s already a kind of beginning.

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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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Once the core of the album was there, I sensed how it resonated with the world around me.

A time of uncertainty, of longing for quiet, of wondering where yesterday’s calm has gone.

I realized that these songs might hold a small truth about how it feels to live right now, an emotional reflection rather than a statement.

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Some songs didn’t make it into the album, not through analysis, but through a quiet sense that they didn’t belong.

One lacked drive, one lacked depth, and one felt more like a sketch than a full thought.

They were part of my year, but not part of the album’s inner truth.

Letting them go felt natural, like a tape that runs out mid‑phrase.

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Somewhere along the way, I realized that the songs were sharing the same sonic colors: heavy bass, dark synths, hopeful strings, and a guitar that rises with quiet triumph.

These elements kept returning, almost unconsciously, until they formed a palette I could recognize.

That palette became the sound of the album.

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Throughout the year, the same themes kept resurfacing: the heaviness of the world, the refuge of art, the effort to stay open without breaking, the grounding power of love and calm, and the difficult moments that shape you.

All of it slowly flowed into one coherent stream.

That stream became songs.

And those songs became this album,
like two quiet lines finally moving in the same direction.

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The Musical DNA of But Live It:

Before the album comes out, I wanted to open a few small rooms of sound, the ones that shaped how I write and listen. They belong to a much larger house that may seem a bit unconnected at first, like the lively rush of a mountain stream. But if you stay with it, you start to hear a melody. Over the next days, I’d like to show you some of the artists whom I admire, who shaped these rooms.

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Throughout 2025, songs kept appearing — some in summer light, some in winter stillness.

Hope and doubt, warmth and cold.

I didn’t expect them to connect, but something quiet in me kept moving in the same direction.

By mid‑year, it felt clear: these pieces were forming an album, something larger than the parts.

Like a fragile bloom that somehow survives the snow.

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Sometimes a project grows quietly.

A thread appears, a tone, a feeling, a way of seeing things.

That’s when I realized this was becoming an album.

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This album is a quiet kind of risk.
Not made for boxes, not chasing trends.
Just the only way I know how to write.

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19 days until But Live It.

After writing the title track, something shifted.

Its idea stayed with me — steady, persistent, like a North Star.

And as I kept working, I noticed how every other song leaned toward that same direction.

This album grew around a single moment of clarity.

Pre‑order on Bandcamp — out Jan 23

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Here's part 4 of my "The Story Behind the Song" series. It's also song no. 4 on my upcoming album "But Live It", out on 23rd Jan., exclusively on Bandcamp.

This is a song about the very early spring, for me the most beautiful time of the year, around the end of February. It is still winter, but You can already feel something in the air, something new and full of hope.

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