Meandering Tear by BeyondBerlinonGroove

The story behind this new CD begins when Martin suggests to Rene in early 2024 to check if Gert Blokzijl is interested to make a CD with us. Martin is very charmed by Gert’s music and we might be able to inspire each other to greater heights. Rene asked Gert and he was interested. After a Teams meeting with the three of us, it turns out that it will be quite difficult to realize this in practice. The geographical aspect in particular causes problems. Gert lives in the far north, Rene in the far southeast and Martin in the far southwest. Then it remains quiet for a while until Rene releases his CD ‘Cosmic Equilibrium’ in December 2024. Rene is eager to make a new CD with Beyond Berlin. When Ron Boots asks us at the end of December 2024 to perform at E-Day 2025, we really have to get to work. Beyond Berlin wants to play as much new music as possible at a performance. So Martin starts digging into demos that might be suitable for Beyond Berlin and there are some pretty old demos in there. Rene also has some Reaper projects that we can work on together. The projects are sent back and forth. Martin adds music to Rene’s projects and Rene adds music to Martin’s. Once that’s done, Martin starts mixing and fine-tuning the projects so that it becomes a consistent whole. After some sending back and forth of the tracks, we are both satisfied and it can be sent to Ron. Rene has made the cover for the CD. And so here lies a new CD from Beyond Berlin called Meandering Tear. The title comes from the name of one of the tracks on the CD and it is an anagram for ….