Christian Löffler - Graal (Prologue)
Cover Photo by Brian Zajak
Album Art Christian Löffler
Christian Löffler.
Graal (Prologue) — New Album
Music, painting, drawing — no difference. It's always the same feeling driving him, the same search for something profound. Named after the Baltic coastal town he calls home. Cover art drawn by the artist.
Baltic Coast, Germany
Drawing · Video
"Still, today, it's the same feeling that drives me — and it makes no difference what I use for it, whether it is music or paint."— Christian Löffler
Greatest inspirations & influences?
Musically I'm mostly socialized with classic rock — Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and guitarists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. When I got into electronic music I was listening to IDM mostly: Squarepusher, Antje Greye Fuchs, Aphex Twin obviously.
Discovering house, I fell in love with Dial Records and Kompakt, and DJs like Jori Hulkonen and Tobias Thomas.
Most interesting response you've heard about your music?
The last time I played in the US, somebody drove a whole day just to see me play. That's something that makes me really happy.
"It will never change — because it's my personality."
— Christian Löffler on nostalgia as artistic identity
Your music and visuals express a certain nostalgia — how are the two mediums tied? Will it change?
It will never change because it's my personality. Creating art and music is my way to deal with it. Of course it's slightly changing over the years, like everything in life. But the initial feeling that got me into creating something stays.
Home on the Baltic Coast
Following an intense period of live concerts where his music felt stagnated, Löffler stepped away entirely — painting, drawing, video, no music. This return to his earliest instincts reminded him how it felt when he first started making music, and allowed him to "turn off my brain a bit, especially thoughts about what is possible or not." The album cover artwork is drawn by Löffler himself.
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