Slick Oyster

Inspirational Quests for the creative mind 🤙🏼

I need to be inspired to create art.
Sitting at home, pressuring myself is the worst I can do.

Appreciating other kind of art always inspires my own art.

🙌🏼 👍🏻👌🏼😎😁💡

Scale practice.

Routine has never been easy for me but suddenly I started to have a daily practice.

I don't know exactly when this happened but Im glad it did. 😎😄

Summer's almost over and I'm getting ready to record my first EP.

Some songs didn't make it.
Some songs will sound different.
And there's new songs too.

I could literally work on them forever but it's time take the next step.  💪🏽😎👍🏼

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I did a radio show for some years at an independent radio station while I went to university.

Some of the perks was getting into shows for free and getting to know the artists while interviewing them.

I began to learn about touring and the different possibilities of how to be a musician.

A lot of those memories came back this year while hanging out backstage preparing for my own shows.

They remind me to ask myself what kind of artist I want to be.

***anmusician

As I woke up the dream was gone.

But the message came out strong:

Talking rhythm, speaking rhyme.

Renew the ancient paradigm.

Gonna try that 😅

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I've never liked rules. Or boxes. But I know that labels help us navigate a world of unbelievable diversity.

Gender norms is one of those boxes, and again, I don't fit. Not only because I can't, but because I won't.

Embracing my human incarnation just the way it is, is not a choice I have to make.

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Who am I?
Do you mean where I'm from?
What I do?
Do you mean what I've done?
What I fear or what I dream?
Do you mean what you see?
Or what I have seen?
What I one day might become?
Do you mean who I love?
Or what I lost?
Who am I?
I guess who I am is exactly the same as who you are.
Not better than
Not less than.
Because there is no one who has been
or will ever be exactly the same as either you or me.

Taken from Sense8 🎬

***rmusician

I hope we're all becoming the best versions of ourselves .
And I guess that starts with our internal dialogues.

My inner dialogue was tested for the first time when I was 21.

I was on the way to Norway with four of my best friends. We planned to stay in a cabin deep in the forest,  close to a waterfall. 
A nature trip flavored with some w**d and mushrooms we had naively brought from Germany. 

We never made it to the cabin though, and got busted at immigration.

After being interrogated by customs for some hours (Customs is 'Toll' in Norwegian which means 'awesome' in German 😜), we were brought to the Oslo Police Station, not ķnowing what's gonna happen for the rest of the day.

Eventually we had to pay a huge fine, were banned from Scandinavia for several years and were kicked out of the country immediately. 
Hypothetically speaking, because it was Friday noon, and we had to stay in jail until Monday noon, waiting for a signature from the deportation office.

But all of this was better than four to seven years of prison that could have been our punishment hadn't been the customs report really gracious.

There was nothing in my solitary cell but a water tab and a mattress, so I had no distractions, no place to hide from my thoughts. And luckily just a couple of days ahead of me.

Thats when I experienced that I really like myself and that it's pleasant to spend time alone even when there's nothing else to turn my attention to.

It was supposed to be a punishment.
But I got out as my best friend.

As a teenager, I had a super strange dream that shaped my life enormously.

The story is very simple: I was old and about to die, and sad because I could've lived my life true to myself but chose a life for the truth of others instead.

I remember thinking:

"Had I known that I'd feel like this at the end, I would’ve learned to free my spirit, overcome my fears and stop caring about what others expect of me. I'd have had a completely different life."

I promised myself that my actual death would be nothing like that.

I haven't forgotten about it and it's been a part of my inner map ever since.

There have been many times when I found myself thinking "even if it were over right now, it would have been so worth it."

Translating all the weird, interesting, adventurous and teachable moments I call my own into music is a whole other story, and a challenge I’m willing to accept 😄

***anmusician

Let's hear it from the willows...

What a special little festival!

It was a really hot summer day and the stage was build below a huge willow dome.

People were chillin' and dancing in the most beautiful green shade and the stage was surrounded by trees too.

That made it really easy to keep up the good energy. 🙌🏼

🌴

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***anmusician ***r ☀️

Life got so much more relaxed once I understood certain patterns in my life that were holding me back.

I gave too many sh*ts about people's perception of me.
(I know, I'm by far not the only human being that has felt that way.😉)

Not necessarily about the perception of strangers but certainly about my peer group's.

But I found liberation through a very challenging and painful experience that tested my self-worth and my boundaries.

The growth that came with the experience had a deep impact on my music too.

For the first time there's no band members to carry my decisions or to hide behind.
There's just my energy, my art, my heart and soul.
And a free space. Without judgment,  comparison, competition or pleasing.

That's pretty cool though😁🤙🏼

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I walk into your queendom
You're floating on a cloud
Thick, sweet, hazy vapour
Cascading from your mouth

Flashing me the moonlight of your witchy smile
Your dark, fawn eyes seducing me to stay a little while

Lyrical teaser of my new song
"High On You"

I'm spending a lot of time in the sound kitchen to cook up new songs and add fresh spices to the old ones

Sometimes I need to remind myself to not overdo it,
to stand fully behind all these  decisions I have to make while producing and to not loose myself in the process

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I came across this very dope book by about the new music business
And I'm soooo hooked
Every morning when I'm done with my practice I lay in the hammock and read for some time. When I started with this book I even began to take notes.
Not to look them up again but to really take in the information. I learn best this way.
If you're an independent musician I'd definitely give it a go
There's so much practical information, it's unreal
I just remembered a part in the book suggesting to test the waters of the music first and keep on working with the results
And I'm just realizing that this is exactly what I began to do after my last show without even thinking consciously about the book.
Subconscious took the lead.
Obviously it made sense for me 😉
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Sliiiiide through these ! Catch a vibe! ☀️🌴😎😄
First photo dumb of the show.
Big thanks to for the pictures! 📸📸📸
Big thanks to for making this possible! 🙌🏼
Big thanks to everyone making this beautiful festival even more special!
I had an absolute blast! 🌴🌴🌴
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So much love and appreciation over the last 2 month since I started playing live! 🙌🏼🥳🙏🏽
It's been a ride and the more I play the more I realize that this what I wanna do most.
The last show was a special one in many ways. I felt so much connection and for the first time I invited the audience to join me on 'Sorceress'.  👏🏼
I definitely made some mistakes during my set, especially in the beginning which always sucks big time but I dealt with it differently.
It was ok and didn't change my perception that the show was really great.
Another thing was the moment during my set when I understood the direction I wanna take with the sound I developed so far. That felt empowering.
And like a downer too because I suddenly wasn't satisfied with what I had created.
Back to the excitement and gratefulness of knowing my next steps! 💪🏽😄

Thanks for keeping the music going 🙌🏼

Big love !
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***rmusician #🏳‍🌈 ***an ***ans ***ancouple ***ansinger

Calm and wild.
Fast and slow.
Energetic and at ease.
I need community as much
as I need solitude.
I am  balance.
I am water.
I am flowimg.
And yet I am so much more 😊
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I'm playing a show at next weekend! You should come :-D
Got something special cooked up for this gig! 🙌🏼😎💚
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Thoughts keep running but the message is clear.
That's the chorus to the first song I wrote as Slick Oyster and it symbolizes the beginning of this journey.
I've been on a small island in the Andaman Sea at the time ( one of my favorite places) and surrounded by the vivid green of the jungle and the vast blue of the ocean. That's what I saw everyday... so the song had to be called 'Green Blue'. 😊🌴🐋

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Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
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A moment in .
And another stage lesson. I'm collecting those these days.😁 No, for real, I'm grateful for everything that helps me becoming a better performer. Sound and stage struggles teach valuable lessons too.
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In the past three years I've been soul-searching as an artist and a human.
To fully immerse myself in the creation of my new sound and to become the best version of myself so far... the lessons don't stop 😁
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Thank you for all the love I got over the last few weeks.
It just feels good to finally be out there.
If you feel bored rn honestly the best thing to do is start learning a new instrument! 🤙🏼💚🤩
Next show will be
Festival!
www.tanzenunterpflanzen.de
Who's coming?
🔥🔥🔥
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Ill be performing at in July!
Along with



and many more!
Tickets at www.tanzenunterpflanzen.de
Get'em while they're hot 😎😄
***an ***ans ***anartist ***rartist

It's gratitude.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I'm really out here.
Energy was amazing and the people super kind.
Next show will be TOMORROW!
At in the beautiful area.
Kriwitz11/Sofaauffangstation
8:30pm
See you there! ✌🏽
***an ***ans ***anartist ***rartist

More showzzzzzzz! Who's coming?
Gonna play 2 shows @ kulturelle landpartie/ wendland.
22.5.23 @ kriwitz11 20:30
27.5.23 @ Kriwitz11 tba
Pull up bring your friends it's gonna be hot 🔥🔥🔥

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So stoked to rip some shows!
This festival is close to Leipzig if you're around.
Big up for for making this happen! 💥🙌🏼💥

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So stoked to rip some shows.
This festival is close to Leipzig if you're around.
Big up to for making that happen💥 🙌🏼💥

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I have ever been the wanderer. Always thirsting for new places, faces, hearts. A youth spent all over the world, immersed in languages, customs, rites of passage, always ready to open a new door to the unknown, always willing to learn, to understand, to connect. At home in a million different places, and yet a misfit in a society that wants to define and label everything and everyone, I try to be true to my own heart, and celebrate a life that encompasses far more than mutable concepts of gender and sexuality. It’s those heart’s strings that give my sound its soul.
In the past two years I have been soul-searching as an artist and a human, and fully immersed myself in the creation of this new sound.
🤙🏼🥳🌱💥💚✌🏽😎

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