VLADIMIR JUSTUS

Luckily, that prediction was a little off. Today, my music features in the series “GDR”, “Open Marriage”, “Limitchitsy” and other productions.

And the songs I began writing in my youth now have a life of their own — on records, in videos and on stage.

I’m generally quite a positive person. Which is why my piano album is called “The World of My Melancholy”.

Sometimes a song needs a whole orchestra. Sometimes, just a piano and silence. What matters is that it feels real.

For me, music never exists apart from a story. Even without words, I imagine a character, a place, the light, a camera movement and the moment it could accompany.

Perhaps that’s why it always comes back to one simple idea: every song I write should sound like a scene from a film.