Julian Petrin

Sometimes it takes time until the right moment has come to open up to a larger audience. In more than three decades the German-Italian artist and composer Julian Petrin has created a collection of musical themes, which is now being re-published piece by piece. Julian Petrin's music builds bridges between neo-classical music, compositional ambient and downtempo electronica. Raised on Jazz, fallen to the impressionists as a piano student, he got his first inspirations from artists like Jean-Michel Jarre, Ryuichi Sakamoto or David Sylvian. His music today can be located between the works of Vladimir Cosma, Philippe Sarde or Francis Lai and artists like Air, Rone, Bayonne or Niklas Paschburg - in a field is best be described as Cinematic Instrumental Pop. Throughout his life, Julian Petrin has oscillated between urbanism, where he is working since more than 25 years, and composing music. After founding his first band in Düsseldorf in the 1980s, he moved to Munich in the early 1990s, where he wrote electronic stage music for independent theatre groups. A large part of his tracks were written in his present home town of Hamburg from 1993 onwards, with individual releases, e.g. in Raphael Marionneau's "Café Abstrait" series. Over the past thirty years he created a rich catalogue of songs that reflect the decades from the dawn of synth-pop to today's diverse ramifications of electronic instrumental music - and which is now being re-edited, remixed and published step by step.