Listening to this record is like spending time with a friend, you feel as if Mario was sitting right next to you.

Mario's music breaks with all our rules of modernity. It is the complete opposite of fast, loud, dense and technology-driven. Sounds, space and lyrics live in perfect harmony, embracing you like a warm breeze. Needless to say, it's all handplayed and AI-free. You feel as if Mario was sitting right next to you. Listening to this record is like spending time with a friend. 'Preparation is everything. In my case, the morning ritual is coffee, a rolled cigarette, and a loud THANK YOU. If I'm lucky, one or two lyric lines come to me. This is my 'ok-go' to continue writing. Sometimes it takes thirty minutes, sometimes a couple of hours, and the lyric sheet is full. I pick up the guitar, she always tells me what to play. I think: Hmm, that's kinda cool, I wanna record this, just so I won't forget. After this is done, I listen to the guitar part and start singing a melody, the lyric sheet in my hand. Most of the time things happen too fast to warm up my voice or change the mic-setup from guitar to vocal. I need to record the vocal right now. The microphones still in the guitar-recording-position, the lyric sheet still in my hand, I am bending way down as if sitting on the toilet with my elbows on my thighs, singing the song. Of course no recording engineer in the world would recommend this. But I don't care, cause I am the recording engineer. The rest is still more joy, still more magic, and a whole lot of production work'. Mario Mario Knapp - Album Maker - Guitarist - Singer
Having worked as a studio musician/songwriter for many years making records with great artists from all over the world, Mario decides to take a new path. In 2011 he starts his 'One-Man-Orchestra' Mobile Ethnic Minority, recording in his own studio in Munich/Germany. It's Me, Mario Vol.1 is his 17th Solo Album. Written, performed, produced and mixed by Mario Knapp
September '25 thru June '26. Mastering Tim Hoefer.
All Songs & Lyrics Mario Knapp.
This Album is 'AI'-free.

Track Listing

• It's a Precious Thing
• Companion
• In the Crowd
• Chasing the Sun
• Old Forgotten Box
• Pedro
• New Leafs on the Tree
• Everyone Feels Like You
• Three Kings
• Blind Man Watching
• It Feels so Good to Feel Good
• Everybody Wants You Not to Do It
• One Way Ticket
• Love Is Real

Additional Details

Label: kidknapp

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 49:16 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/11/26

UPC: 641243802244