“Around The Lake” is a very personal and somewhat nostalgic song. My 🖤 father passed away suddenly at age 47 when I was 18. I couldn’t say goodbye to him and continued my life without him. My memory of him is that the two of us often went for walks together around a lake in my home country and had conversations that, among other things, also prepared me for life as an adult. At some point, I realized that I missed these conversations and that they gave me stability at the time. During my lifetime, memories caught up with me, and I longed to go around the lake with him again.
The video was very emotional for me. We decided to work with different timelines and flashbacks. A particular challenge was getting an actor to play my father and a young man to play me around 18. The father type doesn’t correspond to my father; he seems more youthful. But then, I consciously decided against imitating my father, whereas the young man bears a certain resemblance to my youthful self. A very emotional moment was when my father came on stage after an imaginary performance in the now, put his hand on my shoulder, and we talked again. He asks me how my life has gone, and I ask him where he has been all this time. That was the moment when the actor had to swallow. For me personally, the empty auditorium symbolizes that I’m only singing the song for him. There is a beautiful metaphor in the song »And I see only your footsteps in the sand« based on a spiritual poem. I am walking on the sand with my father, but I only see two footprints in the sand, which are his because he is carrying me. The song’s plump, ballad-esque chorus ends on a major chord. On my end, a certain sadness about the loss is ultimately replaced by a positive feeling. In the end, there is gratitude and confidence.
Thanks 🌹 to the video team at 80 White. You did a great job on my last video “Toward The Sun”, and staged this song perfectly.
JOHNROSE releases his touching new Progressive Rock single “Around The Lake” about farewell, gratitude and hope
In anticipation of the album “The Prophet’s Dance” due out this winter via Dr. Music Records, JOHNROSE unveils today, on 6/14/2023, his extraordinarily personal and nostalgic first single “Around The Lake”, sharing his experiences with the sudden loss of his father when he was only 18 years old. The touching memory of the shared moments inspired the musician to write this song about farewell, gratitude and hope. On the full-length, which will be released on 12/08/2023, the Rhineland-Palatinate artist lets the mysticism of Rhine Romanticism shine in new splendor. Sophisticated, melodic and timelessly beautiful Rock music full of imagination and depth, wrapped in a warm and powerful sound, forms the musical cosmos of JOHNROSE. Thereby, he falls back on his longtime experience in Prog and Rock cover bands and inspires besides the high-class instrumentation with subtle lyrics. The Rock Poet from the Middle Rhine wanders unerringly between the musical spheres of melodic Prog, AOR and elegant Art Pop so that each of the twelve songs sounds unmistakably like JOHNROSE. Mainly self-played, recorded and mixed at Confluentes Studio, the album was subsequently mastered by Stefan Noltemeyer (e.g. Meat Loaf, Santana, Earth Wind & Fire) in Berlin. With the single “Around The Lake” and the music video wallowing in melancholy, directed by 80White, JOHNROSE provides a soulful glimpse of the upcoming great sonic painting.
JOHNROSE’s Rock ballad “Around The Lake” is now available digitally as a single everywhere:
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Composed, arranged & produced by Johannes Rösgen, Koblenz:
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Recorded & mixed by Johannes Rösgen, Confluentes Studio, Koblenz:
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Mastered by Stefan Noltemeyer, Berlin:
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Artwork by Thomas Ewerhard, Düsseldorf:
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Musik video by @80white, Frankfurt am Main:
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Record Label: Dr. Music Records
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