Christian Löffler’s art is heavily inspired by hisenvironment. He lives and works, both as a painterand musician, in the remote Darss Peninsula inGermany’s north-east and his atelier can be foundwithin a rustic log cabin surrounded by overgrownwilderness over-looking the Baltic Sea. The area hasprovided him with the solitude necessary for hishighly introspective work, while at the same timeinfluencing him via its rugged landscapes in acontinuous creative dialogue between artist andnature. This bucolic seclusion, tranquil by nature andintense in nature, has defined Löffler’s body of work,both visual and musical, throughout the years.Following his debut in 2012,A Forest,Löffler launches his second albumMarein 2017. Every bitof his environment can be felt, and literally heard inMare, which is based on the field-recordingsof his atelier. The result, a highly organic voyage through his nature-abundant residence andworkplace. In 2019 Löffler continues to draw on the importance of his physical surroundings asinspiration. Named after the town he resides in,Graal (Prologue), contains music that was createdin a period where Löffler was constantly away on tour – sketches of melodies written on the road.The resulting six tracks on the album have a minimal and focused feel, given by the back-to-basicsapproach Löffler took when working on these rough ideas. It was followed byLys, which serves asa sequel and contrast toGraal, its predecessor. The idea is for the whole project to have anorganic dichotomy – whileGraalwas created on the road (Löffler likens it to a travel diary), thefollow up is a classic studio album, created in his home recording space.Lys, however, capturessomething even more fundamental in nature: light. “I realised that the light is different in the northof Germany, and this became an overall theme for the album,” Löffler explains. “Before I hadMare, andForest, and now it’s become light,” hence the album’s title, meaning “light” in Danish.Both albums were also accompanied by Löffler’s own art; a series of hand-drawn monochromaticsketches and paintings that served as inspiration for the music. In 2020 invited by the world’sleading classical music label, Deutsche Grammophon, Löffler reworked pieces by Beethoven, aswell as other legendary German classical music composers such as Wagner and Bach, to createhis latest albumParallels.By breathing new life into classical compositions,Parallelsinvites a newgeneration of music-lovers to discover the rich heritage of classical music as well as exploreDeutsche Grammophon’s historic archives.