Hello guys, I hope everyone's okay.
This is already the second postcard I'm sending you and this time I'm doing this from Berlin.
It's actually the first city where I decided to stay for like 3 weeks and see what happens.
See if this idea of releasing music from another country every month can work.
And I've never been to Berlin before.
I didn't know anyone and even though I took 4 years of German lessons, the only thing
I remembered was, die Katze ist in der Kirche, which means the cat is inside the church.
So not very useful.
But my manager Clementin, who's actually younger than me and has a name suspiciously close
to my little sister Clementine, well he works in Berlin so he knew some other artists I
could work with.
So I decided to go to Berlin.
So together we made a list of German artists that we really liked and we tried contacting
them.
It sounds fun, but we got a lot of no and even more left unread messages, but eventually
we got some really cool yes too.
And among those yes were David Bay, Anais, Molly, Saint Weekend and Philbo Riva, with
whom I did this song with, Grape Juice.
Coming to Berlin I knew I'd have to get out of my comfort zone, well my bedroom, and try
to write with actually real people.
And to be quite honest with you, I struggled a bit.
I've been so used to do this alone that having someone looking at me while I'm like, you
know, trying to find a cool melody, it's weird, it's really weird.
And it also felt a bit like going to work too.
I had to dress up first, I had to be on time because people were waiting for me and I had
to hand over my paper at the end of the day.
So I had to be on time because people were waiting for me and I had to hand over my paper

at the end of the day.
Three things I wasn't...
I was no longer used to since I left school.
But the truth is it was never like work.
Music sessions were actually closer to going on a date than going to work.
For example, we talked for hours about life, trips, relationships, whatever, before even
listening to some music.
We sometimes had drinks and dinner super late at night.
Well, we never kissed but we could have.
Even though...
would have been like super weird but yeah only eventually someone picked an instrument and
started playing something and then we would all move on and try to write a song but um
the whole thing was just to have fun in a room full of instruments
so i guess if i learned one thing out of these sessions it would be
don't think about the outcome but rather focus on the moment you're living and
and you know just trying to keep the best memory of it because if you enjoy whatever you're doing
then it's enough i think even though we didn't make real actual finished songs every time i
learned so much from these people and i made some really great friends so that is enough i think
and that's exactly how it happened when we wrote grape juice
phil his producer roberts and i decided to go straight to an italian
restaurant just down robert's studio so the first time we all met was actually while eating a slice
of pizza and a few few hours later we went back to the studio phil sat in front of the piano
robert picked a bass i picked a guitar and then we just had fun playing and it turned into a song
i can never have written that song without phil and robert without
playing together and listening to each other so i guess i was right
coming in to work that day
i'm still not that comfortable being in a session but i really want to get better at it and i will
so i'll talk to you when i arrive in london take care oscar