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Life Through Loss

by Garreth Broke

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    All 14 tracks from 'Life Through Loss' printed on thick cream paper and bound in a beautiful cover, featuring art from Anna Salzmann.
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    Pressed on transparent organic vinyl. The cover features the original artwork by Anna Salzmann, plus liner notes on the sleeve.

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1.
Just Another Day (Without You) 02:20
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2.
What We Shared (Playing Amelie) 01:26
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3.
Concrete Bunks 03:27
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4.
Never Enough Time 02:13
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5.
Beautiful Ache 02:17
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6.
Mourn 02:08
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7.
The Big Wave 02:20
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8.
Lifted 02:56
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9.
(Don't) Change 01:47
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10.
What Matters 02:48
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11.
Bittersweet 02:53
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12.
Photograph 02:30
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13.
You're In Everything I Do 03:27
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14.
Life Finds A Way 04:38
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about

"Life Through Loss is an album for anyone who has experienced grief.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been volunteering as a Trauerbegleiter. These ‘grief companions’ sit with people who are grieving and help them explore the complex emotions they are experiencing. It’s not therapy, just companionship, but it gives a profound glimpse into how people cope with loss. I’ve written music for some of these people, continuing a long tradition of writing ‘elegies’ for the dead.

What I’ve learned is that grief doesn’t end, it just changes: we learn to live with it. The intense emotions of the first days often die down over the course of the next weeks and months but can rise up again at the most unexpected moments. This can be hard to manage, especially in a society where grief has become strangely taboo.

This is an album about how to live through loss. It’s partly a personal reflection on my own evolving grief for my mother who died by suicide, including the guilt I once felt for having failed to ‘save’ her. It’s also a distillation of the many conversations that I’ve shared with other people who are already grieving or fear bereavement.

At the core of all these conversations, beneath the sadness, is love.
There’s no grief without love." — Garreth Brooke

credits

released September 26, 2025

Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.instagram.com/annasalzmannartist/

Recording engineering by Tom Blankenberg
Recorded on a Steinway Model D at Van Heys Studios
Mixing and mastering by Kai Blankenberg of Skyline Tonfabrik
Sheet music proofreading by Dawn Wakefield
Sheet music production by Khalid Zouahk of Grafik Art Zentrum
Released by Neue Meister
A&R by Julius Barg
Marketing assistance by Dan Paloma

Thanks: Clemens Christian Poetzsch, Andrew Eales, David Jones, Tim Horton, Mari Nukaya, Nathan Shubert, Simeon Walker, Marie Awadis, Rhonda Rizzo, Dr Roger Allen, Detlev Bender and Matthew Clifford.

Special thanks to my Patreon patrons: Ali, Abi, Nathan, Gabriele, Lynne, Chris, Al, Digby, Joe, Monika, Julian, Lucianne, Rachel, Robin, Steve & Ilse, Reinhold.

Extra special thanks to Dad, Mum and Anna.

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Garreth Broke Frankfurt, Germany

"a sensitive and profound artist" — PianoDao

"Lovely... genuinely uplifting…" — Stationary Travels

"It's got a peculiar kind of nostalgic charm" — Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3

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