THIS LOVE EP

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WHO IS MAXIM VAGA?

“My pain is your pain, even though I am old and you are young" said an old man to the young troubadour, singer and pianist from Berlin, when he heard him performing in the streets of Paris.

Once driven by his love of film, Maxim Vaga worked in movie and theater productions. He met Patti Smith on the set of Christoph Schlingensief's The Animatograph. Shortly after, he put his aspirations to study film on hold and embarked on a long journey through Greece, where he started to write and perform his own songs.

Maxim Vaga is a singer, songwriter, and producer who combines influences from blues, soul, indie, and urban folk. On a journey through musical styles from all corners of the globe, his songs have a timeless character and unite apparent opposites in a playful, experimental way.

"Maxim Vaga jumps straight into the league of Hozier and The Black Keys" (radio eins)

Maxim Vaga's debut EP, THIS LOVE, is the first in a series of releases resulting from a close collaboration with two-time Grammy-nominated producer Dan Cox (Florence & The Machine, Lianne La Havas, Peter Doherty) and with acclaimed Greek composer Petros Klampanis (Arooj Aftab).

The THIS LOVE EP is a nouveau blues exploration of the spectrum of pain and belonging and is presented alongside a film trilogy - a mythological journey through the cycles of life, love, and personal freedom. Directed by filmmaker Panos Andrianos and choreographed and performed by Nava Ilfu, Maxim Vaga's episode for the EP's title track, THIS LOVE, takes us underwater into the Aegean Sea.

"The troubadour Maxim Vaga has traveled the world for years, worked as a street musician in Paris, has a karmic relationship with Greece, performed on stages in New York, Montreal, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Athens, but has always returned to his home in Berlin." (DLF Kultur)

WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT HOME

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A nouveau-blues exploration of the spectrums of pain and belonging, ‘What Is So Good About Home’ is the first single to be released from Maxim Vaga’s multi-media project ‘This Love’.

‘What is so Good About Home’ offers a music track and video filled with compelling visuals, soulful lyrics, and an invitation into Vaga’s ongoing narrative series ‘This Love’ — a mythological journey through the cycles of life, love, and personal freedom.

{Sir Tony Patrick}