Christian Löffler
A Forest

When you find yourself listening to Christian Löffler, you almost have the impression of being faced with a character from some fantastic world. A kind of imaginary being whispering timeless stories in your ear, with no specific place. Except inside your head, so distant as to be sweetly elusive.

His music is basically melancholic and also frighteningly impalpable and dreamy. He himself describes his music as follows: “All my music is connected by a gloomy spirit, which is minted by a warm sincerity....”. Fairy tale atmospheres and misty late humid afternoons lost among the woods. Löffler gently leads you on a journey with small steps and immediately sets the mood by having you step on dry leaves at the entrance of the forest ("A Forest"). He takes you exactly where he wants, setting the pace, yet allowing you the freedom to choose how to do it. The effect it has on me is incredible. It leads me to detach from every aspect of the material reality, giving me a good disposition and inner tranquility. And never was a title more fitting for an album. The Forest is exactly a forest. Of sounds, of sensations. Of suspended emotions. But the suspension in this case is not tension, the journey, I repeat, is nothing that brings you to restlessness, it is of a disarming sweetness. Each episode follows absolutely naturally and exhaustively. Many beings inhabit this forest. Fairies whisper and lose themselves among the sounds of the forest. In "Feelharmonia" the voice of Gry (Danish partner of F.M. Einheit, ex Einsturzende Neubauten), takes your breath away, pronouncing that "Pianissimo, Forte". Additionally, the video directed by Israeli visual artist Ronni Shendar is fantastic and strictly to be seen in Full HD. The darkest piece of the album is certainly "Swift Code", after which you continue to walk among the trees in search of the exit, which comes forcefully through the bright crystals of "A Hundred Lights" and among the slow dripping of the leaves….

Here ends our journey inside the forest of Löffler, and with a hand protecting our eyes, we hurry out while the heart slowly finds its regular beat. Löffler is also a visual artist and it is perfectly noticeable. Once again, completely captured and surprised by this kind of electronics, which manages to reach the deepest point of my intimacy. Beautiful album.