STEFAN PICARD
I am a well experienced musician, artist, composer and producer. He has worked with so-called small and big names in the industry, such as The Berman Brothers (Producers of ”Who let the dogs out) and many others. The small names are not necessarily smaller in their virtuosity, spirit and vibes. They’re just not as popular as the big ones. Just saying.
My main instruments today have strings – all sorts of guitars, dobros, ukuleles a.s.o. – in various tunings. But the instrument I learned to play first in my life, is the piano.
On my mother’s piano I composed the first pieces at the age of 3 or 4. These were fantasy-pieces which could not be repeated….joke aside. I just hit certain keys and tried to find nice combinations. No real playing.
My catalog consists of more than 4.000 tracks. So I guess I was quite diligent over the years. Most of my tracks are online, in various genres and by the names of various artist I created. Of course most of these tunes are instrumentals, chill-out and meditative tunes, which are being played continuously and allow me to make my living with music.
”Mein Blick zurück” is one of those tracks that come flying by, triggered by the vibes of the Universe, or angels, or other entities….whatever. I was sitting at my piano and just playing around. And suddenly I felt that nice feeling and sang ”Ich sitze hier am Klavier, schön ists hier” (I’m sitting here, at the piano, nice it is here).
From that, quite shallow, approach I immediately entered into the depth of my past and of my life when the sentence ”Ich denk zurück an die Zeit, die war und die mir bleibt” (I’m thinking back of the time, that has been and that is still to come).
And all of a sudden my whole life appeared, the many things I did, just to survive (financially), the roles I played, the bliss I was searching for, the tears I hadn’t cried, and the craving for a blissful time as a pair.
And in the end the song concludes with a very positive prospect, after the resolution ”Zeit für mehr, für mehr Mut” (time for more, for more courage. To do things which soothe my soul.
And then my view, my view to the past, will show much bliss.
So a generally very retrospective view turns into a hopeful and conciliative view of life – and of the time to come.