about me

... a little about me ...

It is always a little difficult to write about me,
basically it all comes down to, that I am so much grateful to existence, that playing music is in my life,
what a blessing, to close my eyes, play.

Just recently, someone who likes my music, wrote to me that when listening to my music she feels,
“... that everything is alright, that everything is okay…”

To me this is so simple, beautiful and fitting.
In fact, it is exactly this that seems to be transported in my playing - the space where you feel that everything is just alright. The music I play is saying to me all the time that everything is alright, and that my heart can relax, allowing me to feel safe. ( I guess thats why I play in the first place)

I was born into a family where no music or creativity took place but at 10 years of age, my school music teacher noticed my musical joy. (I am still grateful that he talked to my parents).
So I learned how to play the mandolin and switched after a few years of study to playing the guitar.
For me playing music was like entering a world of my own,
a world inside of me where I could be with myself and forget the world around me and feel safe.

After few years I started thinking that I could / should be a better player;
that I should improve my technical skills on the guitar. I started learning more classical and jazz music. Through the ambition I put into my technical study, I became a better and more sophisticated player.
It did not take long that I became frustrated. Nothing new was flowing out of me musically anymore
... all innocence and inspiration was lost. It was painful to experience.
Later I realized, I had lost the natural feel and approach towards the instrument and playing music itself.

I sold all instruments and did not play music anymore for more than 10 years.

It was a time of heart pain, self reflection and loss when the impulse to play music returned.
During this time, I was searching for music which helped me to go through it all,
music which helps me to widen and expand my heart that everything what is, can be there.
but I did nor find much music ...
so I followed the impulse to play the music myself which I wanted to listen to.

I started playing piano and keyboard as I had no past experience with these instruments.
And after a time, playing guitar returned as well.
The music I started playing from that point on until today has been music which lets me breathe in and out with the feeling that everything is alright; that everything is okay as it is.

It took a while till I found out that the music I play is touching others in their heart as well ...

This leaves me with a deep feeling of gratitude.

With love,
Parijat

2016

Here parts of an interview I gave some time ago :

Parijat, a multi-instrumentalist born in Germany (whos name means "Beautiful Flower of Love")
began playing music at the age of 10.
He started playing the mandolin and later changed to play Guitar.
After many years and the acquisition of a higher level of technical skills Parijat reached
a more sophisticated level of playing, but through ambition and too much focus on the technical side
of music he lost, as he says," the natural innocent approach to the instruments and to playing music."
As a result of this he completely stopped playing music for about 10 years.
He travelled to India in 1979, practiced meditation and began an inner spiritual education since than.
At the age of 30 the impulse of playing music returned in a complete new way.
He began to find his joy and creativity in playing again and realized
that the true spirit and nature of his creativity came from a more simple and innocent place.
He started playing in addition Piano and Keyboards and more unconventional instruments
like the Gu Zheng (chinese Harp) and electric Sitar.
"It was like a new birth, enough time had passed and I had painfully learned my lesson,
that ambition does not work for me and, that "less is more"," says Parijat.
"Looking back, I see that everything was all right the way it was."
He describes his music as: "Music out of silence for silence"
which seams to be such a beautiful and fitting expression.
Parijat also says. " For me playing and composing music is like being in front of an empty canvas and painting colors on it.
It is filling the silence, the emptiness, with sound in a graceful way."
Asking him about the purpose of his music, he says.: " My music is an invitation and opportunity to fall and relax into the silence of ones own heart."

Parijat plays all the Instruments and is handling all the recordings, as well as the mastering

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