A concept album of sorts – “about the feeling of calmness, after managing vexations, the album isn’t about vexation itself, it’s about dealing with that vexation” says its author Konstantin Gropper – its title is taken from a stirring piece of piano music by Erik Satie, first printed in 1949. That piece will become a sort of leit motif on the album.

Vexations is his second album, the follow up to 2007’s, Rest Now, Weary Head! Vexations marks another leap forward for Gropper, the classically trained singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Berlin, for it is a truly beautiful work, one that sparks the imagination with its poetic depth, classical montages and haunting panoramic mood mosaics.

TRACKLIST
01. Nausea
02. Seneca's Silence
03. We Are Free
04. Red Nose Day
05. 5 Steps / 7 Swords
06. We Are Still...
07. A Voice In The Louvre
08. Werner Herzog Gets Shot
09. That Love
10. Aureate!
11. We Are Ghosts
12. A Burial At Sea
13. Angry Young Man
14. We Are The Roman Empire