Stephan Eicher - Dust of Gold

Mignonne 37300 Joué-lès-Tours

“I can’t help it.” The blank page doesn’t scare me. A piano stool is often the only place where the world stops being too loud, too complex. A guitar resting on my knees helps when everything becomes too fast, too heavy. Then harmonies emerge, melodies on texts by my writer friends Philippe Djian and Martin Suter. And then I play these musical seeds to other friends. They start to play with me, push me to record them, and other musicians join in, other hands as well. And suddenly these songs come to life. They become…