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Expressive and free

»I learned to keep things raw.«

Beat / Six years have passed since „Trails“. What did you do during that time?

Mano / Six years seems like a long time between records! The biggest thing that happened in the last few years is that we have two daughters now. So between adjusting to fatherhood and maintaining my DJ career „At The Moment“wouldn‘t have been possible earlier. I think I probably rushed the last album and I didn‘t want to make the same mistake again. I was much more patient making this record. „At The Moment“feels like a musical rebirth for me, I‘ve got renewed confidence in my art and my creative passion has come back to where it was when I made my first album.

Beat / How long did you actually work on „At The Moment“?

I started the process of making the record around four or five years ago, but the main body of the record was written in 2020. I spent quite a while finalizing and mixing the record, too. So it was probably a year to 18 months of solid work. I did also

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