SARAH: I grew up in a small village in the south of The Netherlands. I used to feel like I didn’t belong there, that I could never fit in, but over the last few years I have started to realise that I do feel a very strong connection to this place, the quirks of village life and the beautiful nature surrounding it. I currently live in the city and I must admit: city life is not what makes me happy at this point in my life. It’s too quick a pace, too stressful. Coming home to a green village with lots of space and quiet is something I need at least once a week to connect with ‘real’ life! 

SARAH: I speak in music because there are many things I cannot express with words. I would like to think of my music as something very concrete, bare-boned. It expresses as much beauty as possible, without it referring to something outside of the music. Often people tell me my music sounds like a soundtrack without a film: the music simply exists on its own.

SARAH: At first I wrote pieces for my cats (secretly I still do: they are my muses), later on I discovered I could really try to capture my essence – how I feel, who I am at the exact moment of writing – in my compositions. Not once have I felt the need to really think about what I was doing when I was writing: it simply happens.