"Rhythms" Out Now! https://gert-taberner.ffm.to/rhythms
Growing up in Frankfurt, Germany, Gert Taberner was exposed to English-speaking culture and eventually made the trek over to Vancouver, B.C. where he decided to further cultivate his musical abilities, particularly in the realm of songwriting. With his music, Gert strives to compensate for what he feels interpersonal relationships these days lack or misinterpret: the concept of intimacy.
Written around the time his mother got a terminal diagnosis, only about a year after his father passed, Rhythms is about the growing pains related to loss. The news left him acutely aware of the fact that there would soon come a time when both of his parents would be out of the picture, and it launched him into a deep-dive examination (others would probably call it a spiral) on the ways the majority of the things that make him feel safe were being jeopardized by things so far out of his control.
In response, the song became an ode to fear: the fear of being completely alone, the fear of feeling so vastly unprepared with what’s to come, the fear of making the same mistakes as those before him. Rhythms is Taberner trying to sit with those fears in an attempt to come to terms with the inevitable and unmalleable.