Olec Mün is an Argentinian, Barcelona-based composer and musician. He studied piano, jazz and harmony with professors such as Nicolás Guerschberg, Francisco Sicilia, Guillermo Romero and Paula Suarez. According to the press release, during his twenties he visited India and Africa, where he got immersed in their culture and felt a strong calling to aboard music from a premodern approach, which consists of considering music as a functional tool to connect with the invisible world, and not only as an entertainment discipline.

We introduced him with the 2020’s album Reconcilation. Check our interview here. Now he has announced the release of a new album called Vögel which will be out on June 24th via Lady Blunt Records. According to the press release, mostly composedduring the first lockdown, from March to August 2020, it is an album inspired by the sense of freedom that birdsrepresent. “Vögel” is an album containing tranquility and intimacy: all its melodies draw elegant, minimal melodicshapes, just like a flock of birds.

To explain the German title, the artist underlines that “this album comes after my LP «Reconciliation», through whichI made peace with my Jewish family history, and consequently with Germany and German language. Two years agoI could have never imagined I could be able to give an album a title in German, but now after making this process itsomehow sounds natural.

He continues: “I really felt like a bird inside of a cage. Of course I placed my piano facing the window and I spent much of my timewriting this music while observing at the birds, seagulls, doves, flying past my window. Suddenly this idea of birdsrepresenting freedom was clearer than ever! At a particular time during the afternoon there was almost a concert of allthe singing birds, and that was the moment I enjoyed the most when playing my music with that sonic background. SoI had an idea. I asked my followers to record singing birds and send them to me. I received audio files of birds fromall over the world: Argentina, Italy, Germany, Australia. I edited them all together and made a track that served as abackground while composing this music, so that my room in that moment contained the entire world. It helped get in themood and also it was to nice feel accompanied by people and birds from all over the world in these fragile moments ofisolation.

Check the first excerpt “Merle“.