Some things are better expressed than explained.

I started playing guitar at fourteen. A friend named Werner and I worked at it every day after school. We began writing our own songs partly because we could not play other people's songs well, and partly because my voice was so low that nothing seemed to fit. So I wrote material that suited me.

Within a few months we had a body of songs people seemed to like. We started performing, and by fifteen we were on the radio. That early feeling — making something and watching it land in other people — stayed with me.

Music was also my first encounter with the idea that something invisible can move a person. A string vibrates, a voice vibrates, those vibrations travel through the air, and then someone else receives them and suddenly feels something — an emotion, a memory, a sense of meaning they cannot quite name.

I remember once, unexpectedly, bursting into tears while hearing a Bach cello piece. I do not even know which piece it was, and I may be conflating works in my memory. But the sound went straight past my thinking and into something deeper. That mystery has never stopped pulling me.

I kept pursuing songwriting. My first studio experience was at seventeen. In 1994 I got my first record contract with a band called Tender to the Tiger. A song dedicated to my then spiritual teacher, "She Does It All", unexpectedly moved from a sample label into radio play and the charts. That momentum contributed to my leaving Austria in 1995 to pursue music.

Around this time, while I was in my spiritual group, I met Kirsty Hawkshaw, who had recently had a major hit with Opus III. We wrote a song together called "Silence" and performed it for around 10,000 people in India. I have recently re-recorded a version of "Silence" with Whisper of Truth.

In the UK I met Jeremy Clancy and we began writing together. Our songs were appreciated within the spiritual group we were part of, and in 2004 we released "Harvest", an album I still value for its songwriting and simple production. I also worked with writers including Adam Fox, Paddy Martin and Samantha Grant, including in a band called Sam.

Some of our material came close to larger international opportunities. Kylie Minogue and her producers, and the German band No Angels, seriously considered some of our songs. But it ultimately did not break through.

After my second child was born, survival and family responsibility became more pressing, and music was pushed to the margins. But the desire never left. I kept playing guitar as a way of listening to what some part of my soul wanted to reveal: spontaneous lyrics, clumsy poetry, simple chords, recorded first on tape and later digitally. Over the years I accumulated hundreds of snippets that seemed to arrive out of the blue.

When I met Britta, we discovered a shared familiarity with bhajans and spiritual songs from our respective groups, and we began singing together. We did not plan to write original material, but it came anyway. That led to the release of "Already Home" under the name Whisper of Truth.

Since then we have released four more EPs of three or four songs each. I feel they have become more honest and direct about our current struggles and wranglings — less polished, perhaps, but closer to the truth.