About
Growing up in the mountains of Upper Styria, Austria, Philipp Szalay is a country kid that spent his youth skijumping & cross-country skiing. However, being too lazy to train hard enough to become a professional Sportsman and starting to excessively love the music of Oasis, he started to teach himself how to play guitar in 2006. What started as an attempt to become one of the cool kids quickly became an obession and in the same year he started to write his first original songs.
In 2008, Philipp was headed to Graz to apply to university and to start working on his music more seriously. What followed were years of performing and finding his voice, sound and place on stage, including support shows for profiled artists such as Helgi Jonsson, Scott Matthew, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons and Teenage Fanclub. In 2010 he self-published his Debut EP and started to work on his debut album in late 2011.
In 2013 now the game has changed. In the course of recording this album, it grew constantly and in the end it became something much larger than himself. With the help of amazing people he was able to define a new sound for his music and to record the songs the way they resounded in his head. Finishing this album marked the beginning of something new, so he felt that it was time to take a new line and a new name ...