Christian Molenaar

Category: Year in Review

  • 2025

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    I started the year with no greater plans than a set at the Brown Building alongside Amy Cimini and Sean Jones playing my songs for voice and cello. Somehow that turned into a full twelve months of gigging and recording, the busiest year I’ve had post-lockdown. Below, the highlights (and lowlights): Read more

  • 2024

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    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

  • 2023

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    Another banner year for barren yields around these parts. Keen eyes may have noticed I only released one new recording this year, but for once I’m not measuring my productivity by its public-facing side. Read more

  • 2021

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    This was a rough one. Read more

  • 2020

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    Some year, right? I know I’m certainly not the first to say it and there’s no way I’ll be the last, but jesus I’m glad this is all over. Let’s dwell on it! Read more

  • 2019

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    2019 allowed me the opportunity to work on and release a wide variety of music. Read more

Thought:

“It’s not easy
to be alone
other people
have impatient
waiting-room eyes.
The floor pulls
your steps out from
under you.
You swing yourself
from hour
to hour.”

Tove Ditlevsen | “Divorce 3”

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