Author: Felix
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Choices
Just when I had pressed down the plunger of the carefully prepared French Press and was about to pour a cup of my freshly ground, cherished Rosetta Asuvim coffee, my Parisian host’s oldest son entered the kitchen, drew a cup from the drip filter machine that had been idling there for at least an hour and rammed it…
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Blood and Souls Acoustic Suite
http://www.felixolschewski.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/blood-and-souls_acoustic-suite_felix-olschewski.mp3 This is an acoustic distillate of my Brütal Metal album Blood and Souls. During writing I was actually surprised by how many beautiful melodies went into the original album that I did not really recognize at the time of its creation.
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You owe the world
What those quotations leave us with, though, is this: If you are an artist, you have to give and give and give and never expect anything in return: You owe the world. No one owes you. That might sound daunting. At the same time, I think it is liberating. Go out and rock. Now.
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Adventures in South Africa, pt. III
In which I extend my lifespan by cooking the perfect omelette.
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Adventures in South Africa, pt. II
In which I work in a chocolate factory and find bandmates who can not play any instruments. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world…”
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Adventures in South Africa, pt. I
In which I permanently heighten my senses and improve my music by drinking coffee. “Ollie saw me, recognized me and advised me to have a different coffee variety than the time before. He actually knew which one that had been. After nine months and just one encounter…”
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Come Home
This song is a long story, cut short. I wrote it over the course of several years in different places until I finally rewrote the lyrics from scrap and changed the intro music. Finally, it worked. I am still not quite sure what happened but friends told me they just love it and I like…
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The Story of The Eye and the Hand or: How to turn your weakness into a strength
After almost 20 years of struggling with being unable to sing, finding fellow musicians and getting any music published, I suddenly knocked out a finished song, complete with vocals and all. I enjoyed it so much that I made an entire album and released it as a CD. It was just a matter of hours. How…
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The Ballad of Timothy Mann
I am currently in Cape Town, South Africa, working on a few projects and also finishing writing songs for my next album. My next release will be focussed on acoustic guitar and voice with only a few additions of drum or piano here and there. I am very excited about this project as it is…
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Big, firm tits = Good song?
When it comes to the feminine beauty ideal the world seems to be changing its view and is even beginning to stigmatize superficial views. However, in music most of the world still clings to an ideal, a very restrcitive set of rules that describe what a song has to be like in order to be…