Once upon a time – long ago – I was born in Stuttgart, a town in Germany. When I was 3 years old, my parents decided to move to Fürth in Bayern. I have a sister – she is 3 years older than me. I really don’t remember much about my childhood – its like a black hole. My mother used to say – that I was a very quiet child, always friendly to everyone. When I was 14 my life began. I started smoking, did a lot of sports and had my first girlfriend. With 16 years I began to learn playing the guitar. My dream was to play in a band called: “After curfew”. The bassist was in my class and they had a wonderful playing guitarist called Peter. But – they didn’t want me – I was rather disappointed. With another friend I started to cover songs from the band “America” – but this was just for fun.

But life goes on and so someday I decided to make my own music.

When I was 19 years old Robert Högn, Heinz Reinschlüssel and I decided to form a band – making my music. I had a lot of stuff and I think it was Heinz who knew Beate Krause and so we visited her one day and she agreed to sing in our band. She was 16 – but had a beautiful, strong voice. Jürgen Kolb followed joining the band. I had a book from Walt Whitman – and the poetry “A carol of harvest” was exactly what I wanted to say……….. a song of the good green grass ….. We got a wonderful place to make music – a very large building out in the green, where we could be loud – no neighborhood. This was a place for a lot of parties and good songs.

My inspiration were bands like Camel, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Renaissance, Clannad etc.

Yes it is true – Beate was 16 years old – but already had a great power in her voice.

At that time there was not so much choice in record labels – where we lived. I think the price was also very important for us. We still were in school – did’t had so much money.

It is correct – only 200 copies were made.

When I write songs – I just sit down and play my guitar. From one moment to another there is a riff or chords and thoughts of a story – I can imagine very strongly. I record the ideas – melodies (the heart of a song) follow and in my head a song is created. In 1978 I did the same thing – poetry, melodies, chords etc. When we played the songs in our band room it was a very good feeling to everyone of us – something like ecstasy. We were rebellions against the old regime.

At that time I was in love with a girl called Rita – she came from Munic and one of her friends was a boy, Manuel, taking wonderful pictures of nature. The front cover was taken in a park – called “Nymphenburger Park” in Munic.

Yes we had some gigs. I remember one in Würzburg. It was a band competition. There was another band called “Blitzlicht” – I liked them very much – cause they covered “Snowgoose” from my favorite band Camel. We never thought we could win – but in the end and after a good performance we did win – together with Blitzlicht.

Put on Your Nightcap – it was our first song. When i wrote the song, I had these pictures of war – people dying – people suffering and on the other site this man with his nightcap on his head – going to bed, living in his own and only small world – not interested in anything but himself. Somewhere and You and me were just love songs. Try a little bit was inspired by the tragic dead of a friend.

The main reason we disbanded was the move of our keyboard player – afterwards we tried to continue with another guy, but somehow the record was the end of carol of harvest – at that time.

After Carol of Harvest disbanded I never stopped playing music. I have material for 20 CD’s on the hard disk of my mac. Somehow everything came together: Ewa came into my life and a friend who mixed the songs – so we published “TY I JA”. We got a radio award from Radio Indy in America and rather good critics for example (progarchives).

We were played in polish radio for several times – but until now we did’t sell very much CD’s. I think the reason is the polish language – but we don’t matter. I like the CD very much – it is my music, my feelings – the things I want to tell the world – that’s it.

I am a social worker – working with young people who have no home. I am also a non medical practitioner and a “breath therapist”. I do a lot of meditation and of course a lot of music.

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Publishing new music, opening my own practice. Being happy, loving – living.

This is really great – I love this. It is a great thing to leave footprints where you have been going.

– Klemen Breznikar

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