THIS LOVE Maxim Vaga

• 1 THIS LOVE 03:45
• 2 PAIN 03:33
• 3 WHERE ARE YOU NOW 03:29
• 4 ANGEL (YOUR EYES) 04:32
• Total Runtime 15:19

Info for THIS LOVE

This Love is a slow dance on the blurred lines of love and friendship.

I asked Petros Klampanis to write an arrangement for strings that transports this sensation of unpredictability and elusiveness at first which would then throughout the song slowly dissolve into clarity.

That is actually the same way that the song had been written in the first place.

It started alone at the piano at night. The blue hour had me spellbound. My mind was obscured by the feeling these chords left me with. I found the lyrics intuitively, but I rewrote the ending several times.

Once driven by his love of film, Maxim Vaga worked in movie and theatre productions. He met Patti Smith on the set of Christoph Schlingensief's The Animatograph, and she reminded him of his other great passion, music. Shortly after, he embarked on a long journey through Greece, where he started to write and perform his own songs.

Maxim Vaga, vocals, Fender Rhodes, organ
Neta Shimoni, guitars, bass
Michael Fromme, drums
Franc Shestani, violin
Migen Selmani, violin
Krystalia Gaitanou, viola
Marina Kolovou, violoncello

Maxim Vaga
“My pain is your pain, even though I am old and you are young” said an old man to the young troubadour, singer and pianist from Berlin, when he heard him performing in the streets of Paris.

Once driven by his love of film, Maxim Vaga worked in movie and theater productions. He met Patti Smith on the set of Christoph Schlingensief’s The Animatograph, and she reminded him of his other great passion, music. Shortly after, he embarked on a long journey through Greece, where he started to write and perform his own songs.

This was followed by concerts in New York, Montreal, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and his hometown Berlin, as well as joint concerts with Marlon Williams, Rhonda, L.A. Salami and Wyvern Lingo.

Strongly influenced by the old blues legends and singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan and Tom Waits Maxim Vaga never stops searching for a sound with a compass that points in all the directions.

He released his debut singles “Don’t Let Her Go” and “Farewell & Hello” in autumn 2019.

Maxim Vaga performs solo as well as accompanied by his band. He is currently working on an EP that will be released in 2022.

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