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In Between This Noise

from I Believe In Rainbows by Martin Rotheneder

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about

On march 7th 2015 I sat in a room backstage with too much time on my hands and an old crappy guitar with the words "this machine kills" engraved in it leaning against a large pile of memorabilia. Its neck held four rusty strings and a broken fret that made it impossible to get any decent guitar sounds out of it. "Challenge accepted" might have crossed my mind as I started fooling around in search of something musical. I found an old battery on the desk next to me, put it in my left hand and tried it out as a slide. And I had no clue how much impact the following 30 minutes would have on me.

Everything in life comes in waves. One thing has to die and make place for a new world to open its doors. Some things come and go really quickly, others take long to see the light of day, live to their highest potential and finally fade away again. Being on the crest of such a wave, the end may already be in sight. Maybe you even get a glimpse of what is waiting for you beyond its decline, while always knowing that you have to go all the way, patiently, because taking a shortcut would only prolong the journey even further.

My wave crest was mid 2011 and for one or two short moments I could feel what would lie ahead of me. But I also instinctively felt that I had to walk full distance before I'd be ready for the next chapter to unfold. When the end was finally near, everything became a little too blurry to distinguish the old from the new. For months I had this giant knot in my head, nearly driving me crazy. Questions my gut already knew the answers to while my thoughts were blocking all communication to my heart. Until I was sitting there with this old guitar and a battery as a slide. But why now? Because this old guitar forced me to think differently to my usual behaviour and thus helped me change perspective to finally see clearly.

At the end of this night I walked home listening to the first iPhone-recording of "In Between This Noise" through a partly broken headphone I found somewhere backstage. In the hours before I could finally fall asleep I saw most of what later became "Soulitaire" rushing through my head while turning from side to side in my bed. I was in love all over again, ready to catch my next wave.

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Not mad I know
but still I feel a lot
like losing my mind

You said it all
but once seems not enough
not even from you

in between this noise
all this real confusing noise
is a voice that says it all
oh so calm and soft to hear

but in between this noise
all this deafening noise
it is hard to keep the focus
real hard not to disappear

Not bad, I know
but also not enough
not even close

it hurts to see
but easy will not come
without some pain

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from I Believe In Rainbows, released November 4, 2016

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Martin Rotheneder Saint Pölten, Austria

Songwriter, Gitarrist und Sänger aus St. Pölten. Formerly known as Soulitaire, Ben Martin, I Am Cereals oder The Black Riders.

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