Maybe you are met him before. In winter, in the pedestrian zone, where it with a guitar and a thermos flask for the past have people playing. Home on a summer afternoon when the nice young man next door in the garden and house music is accompanied by the distant hum of the mower. Or on the highway when he is once again with his little battered van on tour across Germany. Perhaps it is Florian Ostertag.
Ostertag, born in 1980, both parents are teachers learn several instruments in his childhood. But he is late bloomer: Only 16 years he discovered the music seriously and writes his own songs from the beginning, which by his home and environment influenced mainly by Christian website. He plays piano and guitar in several bands before he 2003 first tentative steps venture as a producer. He rents a house on a rural farm, where he founded his first musician-WG and takes on other bands.
When he left in 2005 the court must, he settles in the garden of his parents house and produced his first EP, on which he plays all the instruments himself. More and more he is drawn into the world now, just to make music. First solo tours take him to Scandinavia. He plays with Philipp Poisel, Sarah Brendel and many others. Always there: his guitar and the old analog tape machine, which makes him on the stage company and faithful rotates in the clock. Besides, it is directed in the southern German homeland up his own studio, where he can work undisturbed in quiet seclusion.
arises where his debut album, "The Constant Search. Almost two years he painstakingly worked out to always with attention to detail. He writes, plays and produces itself instead additional studio musicians he still gets his friends from the musician-WG on what the whole album not only other musical facets, but also brings a good deal of honesty. Nothing is faked.
"The Constant Search" uniquely combines the ease of innocence with profound melancholy. Florian Ostertag relates to the search for something that makes a life to come to peace: The great love
or paradise in a fallen world. He is at the same time that this may remain a futile search. Even beautiful melodies and harmonies in it are hand-picked moments of room for the unexpected.
Who sets with so much understatement such musical self-confidence in his songs, which one should listen. Just as the street musician with a battered car and the nice boy next door. Perhaps it is again Florian Ostertag.
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