On her debut LP ‘Memoria’, songwriter/producer Lilian Mikorey aka PILLBERT contemplates themes of identity and belonging, hardships and heartbreak in her signature blend of bendy folk guitars, field recordings and intimate vocals.

Moving to London from Munich, not yet 20 years old, Mikorey realized she was leaving her home behind for good. The subsequent state of being lost and alone in a place too temporary to start building the foundation for a new one led her to question the concept of home itself. Is it friends? Family? A house?

„I started collecting objects, bones, sticks, stones and kept them close“, she says, as to create a cosmos traveling with her. „I was tracing the actual feeling of being home to the point where I built a dreamhouse in my head, as an idea, just to evoke that feeling.“ Soon enough she would learn that yielding to the yearning of actually going to that house, must be an inevitably sad experience. A photo she took on a family visit to East-Munich became a reference and starting point for Memoria.

From her mid-teens she had learned to produce with Ableton and now she picked up the guitar, too, learning it auto didactically by playing around, creating sounds. At some point in the process, she realized it’s okay to be lost for a while and by enduring the feeling, there’s room for something new to grow, far off from any general idea of what home should mean.

The album, over the course of 10 tracks, traces these three phases of building a home in your head, realizing it’s not a remedy, nor forever and coming to terms with it. You’ve grown in the process and the album is a guiding light for everyone who strives to do so, too.

PERFORMED BY LILIAN MIKOREY
URTTTEN BY LILIAN MIKOREY
PRODUCED BY LILIAN MIKOREY (ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION ON B2 BY MARTIN BRUGGER)
MIXED BY LILIAN MIKOREY AND MARTIN BRUGGER (A6, B1 MIXED BY LILIAN MIKOREY)
MASTERED BY ZINO MIKOREY
DESIGN BY MAXIMILIAN SCHACHTNER

WEBSITE: SEVERIN BRUNHUBER, LILLAN MIKOREY, MAXIMILIAN SCHACHINER
PHOTOGRAPHY: SARA MIKOREY