Quintesse's "On my way" is a mother-son project with real stakes behind it. Claudia Heinrich-Witzenthaler wrote the song as a message to her daughter Victoria, recorded it at Neptune Studio in Hamburg and brought her son Felix Karl Josef in to sing lead. His first professional studio session ever.
The structure is classic loud-quiet-loud. Verses pull back to acoustic guitar, clean piano and a restrained rhythm section. The lead vocal stays measured, close to mid-register. Then the chorus comes in and the whole thing blows open. Distorted guitars, crashing cymbals, the vocal climbing hard in pitch and intensity. Backing harmonies stack in behind. It lands.
A guitar solo keeps the momentum before the final choruses push everything to peak intensity. Then the bottom drops out. Drums, bass, distortion gone. Just piano and clean guitar fading out, mirroring the opening texture. That structural symmetry is a smart call.
The studio session was incredibly emotional for me as a mother. I had heard Felix sing for years as part of a choir, but this was the first time I heard his voice completely on its own and realised how naturally it could carry the song and the emotion behind the story for his older sister. Felix had an incredible amount of fun in the studio, while I was sitting there crying.
For a debut studio performance, Felix holds the song with genuine confidence. The personal context deepens it, but the music earns its own weight.
