Marc Rosenberger’s latest stock music album is a collection of smooth, LoFi tracks perfect for relaxing scenes. Here he tells us more about it.
Our staff composer Marc Rosenberger has put out one hit album after another. Starting with his heavy metal cinematic album, Got The Guts, continuing with a beautiful piano album, Dreaming Piano, where you can take control of the volume of each hand, and now his latest, Well Told. Well Told is a relaxing collection of jazzy LoFi tracks, perfect for hip soundtracks and laid back scenes.
When Marc Rosenberger isn’t composing for Create Music, he’s doing his own sound engineering work for his kreatonstudio.de and jamming out with his metal band, Driven. Check out their latest track, “Love Like a Pyre” on soundcloud.
We’ve talked about your past before, so let’s talk about how you’ve been managing the present. What’s your schedule been like during covid-times?
It sounds strange, but as a composer I seem to be working under lockdown conditions anyway, so nothing changed a lot. Most of the time I work alone in my recording studio, so I had no problem with all the restrictions.
How has covid affected your creative process for writing music?
Music for me always was and is a way to travel to unseen places and dive into inner worlds, which sometimes are more attractive and more pleasant, than the reality surrounding me. So, during the pandemic, this again was my way to find some peace, to create some music that lets you escape from everyday worries. While the lockdown was taking place, I had the chance to concentrate even more on music and the process of creating this album.
Marc’s ever-growing guitar collection
You had a recent release in your metal band. How did you manage that with the covid restrictions?
For my band, the covid restrictions were a complete obstacle. But we managed to work on my compositions by working via internet, sending files, recordings, ideas and so we made the best out of it. Since last week, we are rehearsing again after 8 months of abstinence. It was so much fun, to make music again with real people, to heat up my tube amp and let the earth quake! Hell yeah!
Are you guys ready to play live again? Any plans for it?
We are ready, but as our band started only weeks before the first lockdown, we first need to record a demo to send it to booking agencies, organizers, etc. It will take some time, but we hope to play some venues and festivals in autumn.
What gave you the idea to do the Well Told album? Was it from your own motivation or did Create Music give you the idea?
As always this album was the result of our talking about what Create Music needs and what I´m able to deliver. As a Jazz piano player, chillout with jazzy influences is very much in my comfort zone. So I think, I was one of the first call composers for Create Music when LoFi music was needed.
Marc busy composing
Lo-fi lounge jazz seems a departure from your past styles, which was cinematic metal and piano. Did you need to tap into some sources of inspiration? What were they?
Musically I´m a bit a chameleon. My range of styles that I can play and produce goes from classical music, jazz, pop, soul, and funk to rock and metal. After listening to some LoFi tracks I knew, I thought it would be fun to compose and produce music in this style. I connected pretty fast to the calm, the warmth and the crackling vinyl mood of that music.
What difficulties or challenges did you have making the album?
The main challenge for me was to reduce to the maximum. LoFi is a pretty laid back and very reduced style. As a Jazz piano player I tended to put too much information into the tracks. To many harmonies, to many distractions from that LoFi mood by playing too much, etc. You really have to hold yourself back as a musician and think more as a listener that wants to chill and just have something in the background creating that LoFi mood.
What are your favorite tracks on the album?
That´s hard to say. I think they all have their special moments. I think, I don´t have a real favorite.
What kind of audiences or projects do you see your songs being used in?
Every producer that needs stylish, calm background music is welcome. LoFi for me is mostly associated with lifestyle, fashion, or culture. These are the topic fields where LoFi can be the perfect soundtrack.
In what genre do you think you’re going to do your next album?
We stayed in the chillout area and created a ChillHop album, that also is ready by now and will be published soon. The next album, that will be produced is a complete acoustic jazz trio album with laid back jazz tracks. So stay tuned. ?
I’m definitely waiting to hear both of those. Thanks for your time and talk to you then!
Be sure to check out Marc’s two other albums, Got The Guts and Dreaming Piano!
