When LAMBERT was caught playing the piano by his daughter one morning in his Berlin apartment, he realized that he had to change something. "You always do the same thing," she opened and stared icily at her father, who was fortunately able to hide his reaction to this drumbeat behind his ever-present mask."You'll soon have no career if you carry on like this." He had always been content to make music "like this", from his self-titled 2014 debut album for the cult label Staatsakt to Open from 2022, his fourth album for Mercury Records, after all, he had become so well known in his home country that he could easily perform as a headliner at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg or the Funkhaus in Berlin. He had also explored different genres, including the jagged electronica of False (2021) and of course jazz, his first musical passion, on the albums All This Time and Live In Amsterdam from 2023. But the fact that his now 14-year-old daughter, who had grown up with his quiet, contemplative compositions and had never complained, suddenly reacted in this way made her comment all the more shocking. What if there was some truth to her wild claims?
Crushed by her harsh criticism, which hit him harder than any he had received before, LAMBERT questioned everything he knew about his artistic identity. However, as he fished around for answers to almost unanswerable, even ridiculous questions, he realized that there was already an ideal solution; a project he had been thinking about for some time. He had been invited by an English director, who for reasons that will become clear, one of which is the filmmaker's residual dignity, we will simply call Matt, to contribute the score to his first television series. An unexpected additional proposal had also recently arrived: He wanted to book him, the director said, not only as the composer but also cast him as the detective in this gritty crime drama about the true story of the infamous and still unsolved "Ice Cream Man Murders" that kept the kingdom on tenterhooks in the early 2000s.
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