'master of the lied'
maybe hugo wolf was the master of the lied, but i am the master of nothing
a collection of songs. you could call them demos i guess but they sound pretty finished to me
thanks for listening

you could lump me into that group of 'singer-songwriters' but i'm the antithesis of that. that's what i believe, at least. someone once told me that singer-songwriters are always better at one thing than the other. but i don't think that (just the idea of being a singer-songwriter) applies to me at all. i just write songs and happen to be the one to sing them. there is nothing more to it than that
then why do i sing? because it would be weird if someone else sang my personal songs i wrote about me. wouldn't it be? like if i spent just all my time writing the guitar part and then the words about things in my life that i've been thinking about, and then only for the words to come out of someone else's mouth? also it is logistically way easier to finish a song and then just be able to record it right then and there
(not saying i don't want people to cover my songs, feel free too — i'm saying that if i wrote personal songs about my life solely for another person to sing, it would be real weird)
why do i write? because i want songs to play that have this special personal-ness to me and me only, and there's some creative drive i feel deep in me. it's not like i couldn't play other people's songs — i do. but i have also spent so long playing other people's songs. the point of building this persona as 'hugo wolf' (i am sorry i stole your name, Mr Wolf, you will always be a better writer than i am), is to be able to express *my* thoughts, ideas, whatever, that came out of *my* head, and not just endlessly interpret other people's.
thanks again for being here
xx