GRAAL (PROLOGUE) LP

SIDE A 1 Christian Löffler Ry 5:32 2 Christian Löffler Running (feat. Josephine Philip) 3:48 3 Christian Löffler Bird 5:45 SIDE B 1 Christian Löffler Like Water (feat. Mohna) 3:35 2 Christian Löffler Refu 7:26 3 Christian Löffler Graal 3:58 Christian Löffler has always been driven by a desire to be creative. In his early teens he would draw and dabble in painting, trying to capture if not a specific feeling, then the essence of something. An ideal. Something profound. šStill, today, it™s the same feeling that drives me, and it makes no difference what I use for it, whether it is music or paint.,› he explains. Graal (Prologue), his new project, utilises both, but it was not born solely of his creative urges. It also stems from frustration, and a sense that while touring he no longer had the mental space or down time to let his creativity flourish. Following an intense period of live concerts, where his music felt stagnated Löffler would find himself solely focussed on visual art  painting, drawing, and šsome video stuff›, but absolutely no music. This return to his roots reminded him how it felt when he first started making music, and allowed him to šturn off my brain a bit, especially thoughts about what is possible or not›. In other words, it gave him freedom. He had a series of šsketches› on his touring laptop  šlittle melodies, or nice lines on my synthesiser, that were born on the fly›  built over untold hours in hotels, layovers, and long drives while on the road. šMusic is made differently when you are somewhere else than in the studio,› he says. šThey were rough ideas; very, very open.› Freshly inspired, he set to work on these raw forms in a back-to-basics approach that also saw him return to the software he used at the start of his career  Logic. Live 03/04 Tivoli Utrecht 10/4 Botanique Brussels