Martin Klein (AUT)

The latest album by Vienna-based singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer Martin Klein was described in the media as a “small masterpiece” and as “a truly great album,” with songs that are “moving and finely crafted,” suspended “between euphoria and melancholy.”
With A Musician’s Life, the Tyrol-born artist finally achieved the breakthrough he arguably deserved two decades earlier. Few musicians combine their own piano compositions with honest, thoughtful lyrics and driving electronic elements as naturally as Klein does, creating a sound world that moves “between melancholic restraint and eruptive euphoria”—a musical experience that leaves listeners deeply impressed.