Serenade

deutsche Version

Dear friend,

“Serenade” is out today!

“Serenade” was written after a surreal trip to Spitzbergen, far up in the Arctic Circle. It’s a place that immediately shifts your sense of reality: endless white, almost no sound, a kind of bright stillness that feels both calming and strangely alien. When I arrived, the air was incredibly clear and dry, and the cold felt immediately different from anything I had experienced. The light sat low on the horizon, giving the entire landscape an almost otherworldly feel.

The track is essentially a memory of that first impression: stepping out of the plane, feeling the dry cold hit my face, noticing the smell of the snow, and hearing how different everything sounded in that vast open space.
It’s a quiet piece, minimal and reflective, trying to capture that moment of slowing down and taking it all in.

A small side story: during that trip I actually got frostbite on my fingers and genuinely wondered if I might lose one. I had assumed polar bears would be the real danger up there — but in the end it was the cold (-30°C) that caught me off guard. I had to cancel the rest of the trip and take the next plane home to see doctors, all just two weeks before heading out on a major tour. For a while I had to wear special gloves while playing guitar and use a thumb pick for strumming because I couldn’t rely on my pointer finger. My fingerprint changed for almost a year, and all my fingernails grew back new. Fun.

So in a way, this piece is not only about the beauty of the Arctic, but also about the fragility you feel in such an extreme environment.

I hope some of that atmosphere comes through when you listen.

Listen to “Serenade” here

The cover art is a processed version of another photo I took — shaped to feel like a faded memory, almost disappearing and yet still somehow present.

Thank you for listening!

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Take care,
Klaus