About
Born in a border town in northern Germany, Simon left home at 15 to pursue music, studying production and performing across Europe in Irish pubs, corporate halls and wedding venues. After years of touring as a working musician, a deeper call led him to India, where he immersed himself in spiritual practice and began dismantling the version of himself built on performance and approval. In ceremony spaces he discovered a new way of making music: a transmission of what is here and now, rather than a performance.
Today, based between India and Europe, Simon creates Concert Ceremonies: immersive experiences where songs meet spontaneous call-and-response, dissolving the line between artist and audience. His music bridges craftsmanship and devotion, translating years of live transmission into recordings that carry the energy of these moments into the world.
For nearly a decade he has played in intimate gathering spaces where music is less about performance and more about connection, shaping a creative approach rooted in presence, atmosphere and what happens between people when their voices fill the room. Deeply influenced by witnessing how sound is used in ceremony – where authenticity carries prayer and repetition creates connection – his work reflects a view of music as something functional: something that gathers people, focuses attention and supports healing.
The songs are created between his home in India and the travels he makes to share what he is discovering. His work has been described as “medicinal pop”, shared in moments of closeness, on road trips, in meditation and in times of transition – music that accompanies people through meaningful chapters of their lives.
CONCERT CEREMONIES
Simon's live format grew out of years in ceremony spaces. A Concert Ceremony is part concert, part ceremony, part singing circle: original songs woven with mantra, taught on the spot and sung together. Gatherings run from intimate yoga shalas of 60 people to festival stages, across Europe, India and the Americas.
ROOTED IN INDIA
For more than eight years Simon has made his home between Europe and Rishikesh, studying yoga with his teacher and serving as the house musician at the Ashram. Mantra is the root of his music, and the thread that runs through all of it, whether sung in Sanskrit or in English.
