Theo Konst spent most of his working life looking forward, always chasing the next opportunity, the next possibility, the next reason to keep moving. Now retired and living in Estombar, near Lagoa in Portugal's Faro district, the Dutch-born songwriter behind Teanko has finally slowed down enough to look back, and "Between Two Selves" is what came out of that pause.
The song began last winter, not with an instrument but with a box of old photographs pulled out almost by accident. Konst set out to build a simple timeline of his musical life and ended up somewhere he didn't fully expect: face-to-face with earlier versions of himself, each one carrying different priorities, different ambitions, different ideas about where his life was actually headed. That confrontation, gentle rather than jarring, became the actual subject of the song.
"Between Two Selves" isn't interested in resolving that gap so much as sitting inside it. Konst describes the track as living in the space between who someone has been and who they currently are, without demanding that either version get erased to make room for the other. The photographs stay. The old choices stay. Even the doubts stay. Nothing here is about deleting the past to justify the present.
What keeps the song from tipping into nostalgia is Konst's own honesty about what retirement actually gave him. He no longer feels obligated to constantly search for what's next, and instead of that stillness feeling like an ending, it opened space he didn't previously have: time to actually finish music, start new work, and do more of what genuinely interests him. The urgency is gone. The motivation isn't.
As Teanko, Konst brings decades of songwriting experience into a sound built on melodic pop, rock, and indie instincts, favoring strong songwriting and authentic emotion over production for its own sake. "Between Two Selves" reflects that experience directly, carrying the weight of a full musical life without leaning on it as a crutch.
The most striking part of Konst's account isn't the retirement itself; it's the reframing. He describes moving forward now by choice rather than necessity, present in his life rather than racing through it. "Between Two Selves" captures exactly that shift: not an artist looking backward with regret, but one who has finally arrived somewhere worth staying, and who sounds genuinely surprised by how much that stillness has given him room to create.