This immediately put a smile on my face for some reason! So flowy!! This might be super out there; but in a weird way it’s almost like you can feel/hear the detachment (lack of thinking/planning for the next thing etc)? Sometimes when I listen to this type of music it feels like I’m just waiting for the next thing to happen, whereas this was one of those pieces where I didn’t care, I just enjoyed what was in the moment. Super happy to see that the Bruce Lee-wisdom is spreading. In that same clip he says ”it’s like a finger pointing to the moon; don’t look the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” And that’s what this sounded like! Not focused on the next cool thing to play, just flowing with the music in the moment.

@Freddie Webber Hahah, I totally get you! As someone who's also slowly and consistently heading towards her mid 30s, I wish I had more of that mindset; of not trying to sound cool (or use flashy voicings because I know it will sound expensive and impress guitarists etc)! Still closer to 30 as of now, so maybe that will get better in a year or so! But reading this was a good reminder to just listen, instead of pulling out every trick in the jazz voicing book 🦦

Immediate stank face! This is such a cool approach.

100% with you Sebastian! Being nice to people who might be different from you shouldn’t be political, that’s just being a good human being. Thank you for bringing that up! It makes me hopeful for humans, that we can create a space on our tiny corners of the internet where being nice to people is standard. I understand and respect your concerns with the podcast episode and how you might not want to release it publicly. Howeveeeer, you know that ”don’t think about a pink elephant”? Well, the podcast episode is all I can think about; super curious haha! Would it be an idea to release it on here and get everyones feedback within the community? Rant on AI = We’re already very much seen as making ”background music”. Spotify editorials is full of ghost producers who throw guitarwave music together just to fill out playlists. I respect people wanting to make a living from music, I do, but it all just seems so…soulless? Just in that these producers have no passion for the music. But hey ho, who am I to judge! I make music for Epidemic Sound, which is literally to be used for background music. But my excuse is that I have a burning passion for the music I make. So the use of AI = COMPLETELY soulless. Could be a helpful tool of course! But as a curator on submithub I come across a loooot of guitarwave/lofi-artists who use AI for their cover art. It pisses me off, haha. To me the cover art is just another expression of the music, and to use AI to make it... I don't know, tells me that you don't have respect for your art in a sense. And also makes me wonder what else in their music they have traded human passion and creativity with computer? Rant over

@Jens Mahla Really happy you resonated with that Jens! Anxiety is (unfortunately) so incredibly common with creatives, especially when sharing our music 🦦

HI guys! So many interesting takes here. @Max Fedoseev mentions ads, and I managed to grow a playlists up to 12 000 followers and 2000 through ads (even though I do agree with the sentiment about playlists sort of making what we do just background music), that helps me get a boost whenever I release something now. Haven't done that in a few years however. Did the same thing as @Martin Eibisch , bought the Spotify Growth Engine course and delved into that. What I've been leaning most towards lately, to try to get away from the whole background music thing, is to be very personal with my music, and tell the story around it. Because our music don't have any lyrics, I find that I want to do that to make people connect with it on a personal level. @Sebastian Jautschus does a great job with building stories the viewers can immerse themselves in on his socials, and REALLY capturing the vibe of his music in that storytelling. I guess I've been focusing more on telling personal stories, and how that connects with the music, to make people care about the music I make, and perhaps connect with it on a deeper level. Since this is a time of short focus, I've been experimenting with short hooks, to make people stay and watch any videos of me playing the songs as well.