Berlin
A bilingual German-French song written during a trip to Berlin in 1989, just after the Wall had fallen. It captures the city as a nocturnal artists' ball full of pulse, friendship…
Song pages
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Era
1985–1989
Piano lessons, rock bands, first loves and the magnetism of France shaped these beginnings, where music carried longing, openness and a first sense of freedom.
Lessons in Love and Freedom / 1989 / 2 versions
A bilingual German-French song written during a trip to Berlin in 1989, just after the Wall had fallen. It captures the city as a nocturnal artists' ball full of pulse, friendship…
Lessons in Love and Freedom / 1989 / 3 versions
A French-language song shaped by a summer encounter in France, where a chance meeting quickly takes on the feeling of destiny. In a bright 4/4 blend of French pop, pop rock and si…
Lessons in Love and Freedom / 1989 / 3 versions
A French-language reflection on heartbreak, disappointment and the effort to rise again after love has collapsed. In steady 4/4, it combines French pop with folk-rock and singer-s…
Lessons in Love and Freedom / 1985 / 2 versions
A French-language remembrance of a first love at fifteen, set on the last night before parting for home. Moving in 6/8 between lo-fi pop, indie R&B and singer-songwriter intimacy,…
Era
1990–1991
A guitar replaced the piano during years of travel. Songs formed in hostels, trains and campfires by the beach, while English grew into a second lyrical home.
Road Songs and Wanderings / 1990 / 4 versions
Written from an early confrontation with the mismatch between appearance and reality, this song looks behind smiling faces, social masks and broken loyalties, asking whether false…
Road Songs and Wanderings / 1990 / 2 versions
Written while travelling alone through Southeast Asia, this song turns solitude into a wide, luminous love vision: night streets, stars, sea and memory opening into a sense of won…
Road Songs and Wanderings / 1990 / 2 versions
An English-language anti-war song written during military service, at a moment when relations between East and West seemed to be shifting while the trauma of Vietnam still remaine…
Era
1992–1996
During the studying years, music emerged through improvisation, student bands, outdoor drum sessions and late-night recordings. Experiment became the method.
Experiments and Creative Disorder / 1996 / 1 version
A dryly comic song about late-evening scarcity in Germany’s old shopping hours, turning the search for an open butcher into a reggae-inflected portrait of appetite, routine and ur…
Experiments and Creative Disorder / 1992 / 1 version
An exuberant style experiment built on spontaneous joy, bodily imagery and teasing sexuality, pushing pop-rock into a more excessive, tongue-in-cheek zone of appetite, groove and…
Experiments and Creative Disorder / 1992 / 1 version
A blues-rock song driven by physical tension, smoky club energy and a streak of Latin pulse, turning restlessness, desire and self-abandonment into a rough, groove-heavy night pie…
Era
1997–2000
After many attempts with existing bands, Pandora's Box brought jazz-rock, Krautrock roots and more ambitious writing, often developed with guitarist W. Klink.
Between Worlds / 2000 / 3 versions
A late-night jazz-club leaning presentation that fits the noir side of the archive particularly well.
Between Worlds / 2000 / 4 versions
Inspired by personal bonds to Latin America, this song reflects on what truly matters in life, setting simple human value against modern acceleration and insisting that some of th…
Between Worlds / 1997 / 3 versions
Written under the spell of Arambol on Goa's west coast, this song captures a place where plans lose urgency, mental noise falls away and ordinary time seems to dissolve into myste…
Era
2001–2010
Professional life brought longer pauses and less stylistic self-testing. The songs from this period remain close to the jazz-rock language of the years before.
Consolidation / 2010 / 1 version
A reflective song about the human strain of technological acceleration, observing an older man by the sea whose life and certainties are unsettled by a world changing faster than…
Consolidation / 2010 / 1 version
A biographical love song shaped by devotion, erotic tenderness and emotional commitment, presenting partnership not as passing desire but as a deeply personal vow of intimacy, sup…
Consolidation / 2001 / 1 version
A youthful song of soul-recognition and erotic-spiritual attraction, imagining love as a passage beyond ordinary separateness into compassion, freedom and a deeper shared existenc…
Era
2011–Present
Music gradually returned to the center. In duos, bands and later collaborations, new songs gathered wider influences while turning more toward the human core.
Toward the Human Center / 2024 / 3 versions
A contemporary song about the ups and downs of life, shaped by the wave metaphor of Surfing the Himalayas. It turns uncertainty, pressure and return into a steadily rising arc tha…
Toward the Human Center / 2014 / 4 versions
A sunlit title carried through several later reinterpretations, with the Nu Bossa version now leading the song in a softer, rhythmically buoyant and song-centered direction.
Toward the Human Center / 2014 / 5 versions
A call to reclaim agency in a pressured, trend-driven world, arguing that modern exhaustion, conformity and loss of self-worth are not final conditions but choices that can still…
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