Benj Hartwig

Biography

After years of incessant touring, playing other people’s music and spending most of his days on the road, the man finally found a crack in his schedule. He packed his equipment and set up a remote recording studio in Marienheide, a small village right outside of Cologne, Germany. For a total of three months all he did was revisit unfinished songs and remixes, and spent his days recording and experimenting with production techniques and the art of sound design. In other words: he committed himself to a serious regiment of music therapy. This is how Opus 1 was born.

Benj Hartwig is a Zürich based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. His music is an idiosyncratic and elegant synthesis of Avant-Pop, Left-Field Electronica and Neo-Contemporary.

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