Tobias Carshey - July 2018

Swiss musician Tobias Carshey played a lovely concert at the Gurtenfestival in Bern in July 2018. (Check out photos of the concert here.) Carshey released his second album "Semicolon" in September 2017. The title is an allusion to the tattoo trend of the same name, reminding people with depression and people who have survived suicide attempts that their lives go on, that 'the sentence isn't over yet'. It is also a way of talking openly about mental health issues and educating people about these still-taboo topics. Carshey himself has experienced the consequences of depression firsthand and wanted to contribute to the movement with his album. Anna talked to Tobias Carshey at the Gurtenfestival about "Semicolon", music as therapy, and pigeons.