It all started in china. Just with a backpack and no music instrument. Christoph decided to leave the big city to explore china for a few months. Hitchhiking and sleeping in the tent were every day routine. However, it didn't take long until the music started to unite!
After a few months of traveling through the south of china, Christoph met Huzi, a chinese painter and musician from Inner Mongolia. After spending the days together in XiShuangBanna, a city in the province of Yunnan, bordering Tibet and Laos, Huzi and Christoph decided to head north towards Huzi's hometown in Inner Mongolia. For more than one month the two travelled together, Huzi providing the guitar and hand drum, Christoph providing the tent the two vagabonds would share. It was an unforgettable journey of hitchhiking, busking, wandering through the forests and mountains of china's countryside.
Eventually their ways separated, Huzi stayed in his hometown and Christoph continued his journey through china. Again without an instrument, Christoph missed the times busiking in the streets and decided to buy himself a cheap chinese imitation of a Martin guitar. The 3/4 travel size guitar did the job.
Traveling through the countries, enjoying the silence and beauty of the asian countrysides, creativity grew more and more and note for note new songs got created constantly. The busking life had been going on for over a year by the time Christoph arrived in Malaysia. In Georgetown, Penang, where art rules the scene, Christoph met Mamo Kitman, a street artist with many talents. The two connected immediately and the first collaboration happened, and with that, Sandesch was born. Mamo and Christoph worked on "Lass sie gehen" together and soon they performed it on stage at "Kim Haus" where Christoph was residing for 5 weeks as the house musician and MC for the evening open mics. Two years later, Christoph went back to Georgetown and the two recorded the second song "Frei wie ein Vogel." By then, the music project Sandesch had already expanded and worked with other musicians; many songs were written and it was just a matter of time for them all to be recorded.
Apart from music, Sandesch also collaborates with other artists and so the painting of the album cover for the first album "Für dich" got created. Thanks to Lotte Verstappen from the Neterlands and "Create A Lot." This takes the idea of Sandesch to another level, including all kinds of artists and collaborating together to spread the message.
And this is the story of Sandesch until now. Christoph keeps traveling and Sandesch keeps growing. We are all excited for the future, for more music making, sharing and just enjoying life.
