From the recording LP22 EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE
The lyrics of “I am eklektika” portray a life shaped by movement, learning, and reinvention, using the cello as a symbolic spine that carries the protagonist through shifting decades, continents, and cultural worlds. They tell the story of a Baby Boomer who never settled into one identity but instead evolved across eras—from analog beginnings to digital futures—absorbing each transformation as creative fuel. Berlin becomes the place where all these fragments finally cohere, allowing him to fuse classical roots, progressive imagination, and electronic experimentation into a personal artistic universe. The chorus frames identity not as something fixed but as something assembled from many lives, echoing the conceptual journeys of his albums—Futaria, Horizon IX, Mechanica Cellorum, Phronesis, The Fifth Season, The Nearness. Ultimately, the lyrics celebrate a person who has turned movement into meaning, experience into art, and time itself into a creative companion, living proof that reinvention is both a survival strategy and a form of beauty.
Lyrics
I AM EKLEKTIKA
Verse 1
I crossed the decades like a traveller
With a cello on my back,
From England’s coast to island skies,
Never staying on one track.
Learned the world through every culture,
Classrooms, choirs, midnight bars
Every place became a chapter,
Every journey left its scars.
Pre-Chorus
And in the noise of turning eras,
Something whispered deep within
A voice that said: keep moving forward,
Let the music be your skin.
Chorus
I am eklektika
A life made out of many lives.
I’ve walked through Futaria’s sunlight,
I’ve seen Horizon IX arise.
I am eklektika
A cello carved in shifting time.
From Berlin nights to distant oceans,
Every border made me shine.
Verse 2
The world rewired its beating heart
Analog warmth to data streams.
But I kept shaping sound and story
From old memories and new dreams.
Mechanica Cellorum woke me,
With iron wings and bows of fire;
Phronesis taught me how to listen
To the wisdom of desire.
Pre-Chorus
And when the seasons broke around me,
Fifth and falling into one,
I still believed in brighter futures
In the world of 2099.
Chorus
I am eklektika
A bridge of knowledge in my bones.
A thousand strings across my history,
Every note a different home.
I am eklektika
Where the past and future rhyme.
From vinyl dreams to neon cities,
Still the cello draws the line.
Bridge
And in the Nearness of the river,
Where Call and Echo rise again,
I felt the pulse of all my lifetimes,
Flowing through my trembling hands.
Not made for fame or fading echoes,
Not built to chase the modern chase
Just born to carve out hybrid stories
In my own electric space.
Final Chorus
I am eklektika
A wanderer who found his sound.
Berlin held me in its heartbeat,
Gave my melodies a ground.
I am eklektika
Still learning who I’m meant to be.
And every song I write is proof that
There is more ahead of me.
Outro
A cello hums.
A skyline glows.
A lifetime opens.
The music grows.