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Silent Island Projects

The making of Unconditional Love Germany. Their music Influenced by their almost
10 years of circumnavigation around the world
The song Unconditional Love was a typical Silent and merging with other cultures, their music is
Island Project, Gerhard composed the first sounds the expression of new world philosophy.
with the synthesizers, I mostly work in the house,
do my vocal training, household, internet, etc.

During these activities, I let the music work on
me to get a feeling for the song. Gradually, Ger-
hard plays various instruments and the song gets
a soul. My relationship with the song deepens
with every instrument, I’m on a journey where
I don’t yet know where it leads me to. By this
song, life came into play, a young girl I knew was
studying abroad, she was deeply unhappy there,
she was stuck in a real depression. I was surprised
and concerned, how can it be, why can a young
woman fall, in such a short time, from a bright
person into a kind of zombie state of mind. Then
in the middle of that night, I found the solution
for her and for
Unconditional Love, the lyrics were there, right in
front of me. She had to go inside herself to find
her true self again. Step inside and feel the sun,
look at all the faces, (your own, and also your love
ones), there were it all begun.

I started to write right away, the words came very
quickly, it’s like a flow, like someone is leading
me. Once the foundation is in place, the real work
begins, the text has to be synchronized with the
music. Gerhard record all other instruments, bass, Gerhard was fascinated by the musical sounds as
violin, guitar, etc. I’m focused on singing. when a child, at age 7 he made his first guitar, from the
the instrumental is done we start to record the lid of an old detergent container, a piece of elon-
voices. the lead singers and the backup girls. gated wood, he nailed a fretboard and the for the
strings he took a few pieces of hemp cord.,. This
Silent Island Projects thing even sounded a bit. But he never played it,
because his father got pity on the boy and bought

Their music is a mix of Easy Listening, World, him at the violin maker at the end of the street an
Crossover and Classic Pop. Monique Richert the old, used, classical guitar. Now, with the help of
Singer of Silent Island Projects comes from Am- his
sterdam, Gerhard Richert the Composer and mu- older brother, he taught himself how to play gui-
sician of Silent Island Projects come from Souther tar, at the same time, a band from England made
a name for them-selves, calling The Beatles. His
classmates now wanted to learn to play the guitar,
Gerd started to give them guitar lessons, 50 cents
an hour. At 14, he founded his first school band,
later he played as a drummer with various bands,
learned to play the piano and began to compose.
With the conscription for military service, it was
then over for the time being with the active music.

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