postcard from Berlin-Oscar Anton

[ti:postcard from Berlin] [ar:Oscar Anton] [al:postcards (the playlist)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.58]postcard from Berlin - Oscar Anton [00:01.38]Composed by：Oscar Anton [00:06.63]Hello guys I hope everyone's ok [00:10.24]This is already the second postcard [00:11.90]I'm sending you [00:12.85]And that this time I'm doing this from Berlin [00:17.40]It's actually the first city [00:18.65]Where I decided to stay for like 3 weeks [00:20.99]And see what happens [00:22.52]See if this idea of releasing music [00:25.19]From another country every month can work [00:29.56]I've never been to Berlin before [00:31.41]I didn't know anyone and even though [00:33.46]I took 4 years of German lessons ahh [00:36.30]The only thing I remembered was die [00:38.11]Katze ist in der Kirche [00:40.18]Which means the cat is inside the church [00:43.09]So relatively useful [00:45.38]But my manager clementin [00:46.79]Who's actually younger than me and [00:47.88]Has a name suspiciously close to my [00:50.18]Little sister clémentine [00:51.95]Haa [00:52.49]He works in Berlin [00:53.73]So he knew some other artists [00:55.78]I could work with [00:59.76]So together we made a list of German [01:02.01]Artists that we really liked [01:04.01]And tried contacting them [01:06.34]Haa [01:06.63]It's sounds fun but we got a lot of no [01:09.40]And even more left on read messages [01:11.87]But eventually we got [01:13.37]Some really cool yes too [01:15.56]And among those yes were [01:16.60]David Bay Anaïs Moli SAINT WKND [01:20.76]And Fil Bo Riva with whom [01:22.90]I did this song with grapejuice [01:28.68]Coming to Berlin I knew I'd have to get out [01:30.56]Of my comfort zone [01:32.09]Haa [01:32.82]I mean [01:33.01]My bedroom and try to write [01:34.83]With actually real [01:37.22]And to be quite honest with you I struggled a bit [01:42.26]I've been so used to do this alone [01:44.08]That they having someone looking at me while [01:46.43]I'm like ehhh ahh [01:48.52]You don't trying to find [01:49.12]A cool melody is weird [01:50.79]Is really weird [01:52.54]And it also felt a bit like going to work too [01:55.93]I had to dress up first [01:58.28]I has be on time because people were waiting for me [02:01.88]And I hads hand over my paper at the end of the day [02:05.53]So 3 things I was I was no longer used to since [02:09.17]I left school [02:11.36]But the truth is it was never like work [02:13.71]Ahh [02:14.68]Music sessions were actually [02:15.84]Closer to going on a date than going to work [02:19.00]Yeh [02:19.66]For example we talked for hours about life [02:23.01]Trips relationships whatever [02:25.77]Before even listening to some music [02:28.40]Ahh [02:28.84]We sometimes had drinks [02:30.10]And diner super late at night [02:32.62]Ahh [02:33.01]Well we never kissed [02:34.32]But could [02:34.92]You could have even though it [02:36.20]Would have been like super weird [02:39.46]But yeah only eventually [02:41.77]Someone picked an instrument [02:43.06]And started playing something [02:44.89]And then we would move on and try [02:46.88]To write a song [02:48.71]The whole thing was just to have [02:50.04]Fun in a room full of instruments [02:54.64]So I guess if I learned one thing out [02:56.89]Of these sessions it'd be [02:58.89]Don't think about the outcome [03:00.63]But rather focus on the moment you're living [03:03.17]Ahh you know [03:05.02]Just to keep the best memory of it [03:07.02]Cause' if you enjoy whatever you're doing [03:08.87]Then it's enough [03:11.71]Even though we didn't make real actual [03:13.64]Finished songs every time [03:15.21]I learned so much from these people [03:17.74]And I made some really great friends too [03:21.79]That is enough I think [03:25.73]And that's exactly how it happened [03:27.40]When we wrote grapejuice [03:29.40]Fil his producer Robert and I [03:31.81]Decided to go straight to an Italian restaurant [03:34.32]Just down Robert's studio [03:36.23]So the first time we all met was actually [03:38.53]While eating a slice of pizza [03:40.75]And a few hours later we went back to the studio [03:44.02]Fil sat in front of the piano Robert picked a bass [03:46.95]And I picked a guitar [03:48.21]And then we just had fun playing [03:50.51]And it turned into a song [03:54.31]I could never have written that song [03:55.78]Without Fil and Robert [03:56.99]Without playing together and listening to each other's ideas [04:02.14]So I guess I was right comin' [04:03.82]In to work that day [04:08.33]I'm still not that comfortable [04:10.66]Being in a session [04:11.52]But I really want to get better [04:14.24]And I will [04:17.13]Talk to you when I arrive in London [04:19.86]Take care [04:20.97]Oscar