STREAM & DOWNLOAD: https://go.meaningwave.com/THEMANANDTHEBIRDS
Get the merch: https://www.meaningwave.com/pages/search-results-page?q=the%20man%20and%20the%20birds
NFT: https://opensea.io/AkiraTheDon
The first, rough version of this song appeared at the end of the Youtube only version of 2021’s LOFI CHRISTMAS IV (https://fanlink.to/LOFICHRISTMASIV) - it was a last-minute flash of inspiration and the stand-out moment for many. This year I remastered and finished the song, adding piano and pells and remixing and remastering it, before making it available on to download and stream wherever you like to download and stream (https://go.meaningwave.com/THEMANANDTHEBIRDS).
For the remastered version of this song, I also remastered the music video - I edited footage from Raymond Briggs' classic The Snowman, ran that through my CRT television and two of my favorite glitch boxes, spent some time dialing in a variety of looks and effects, then edited the resulting footage, and used AI to upscale it ...
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
Own the NFT at https://opensea.io/akirathedon !
BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
STREAM & DOWNLOAD: https://go.meaningwave.com/DUNEWAVEODYSSEY
MERCH: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/dunewave
MEANINGWAVE VINYL: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/vinyl
“THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED…”
At last! It is time!
DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/DUNEWAVEODYSSEY)
Crystalizing the wisdom of Frank Herbert’s Duniverse into a single-hour-long, sixteen-track epic musical explosion…
Four years in the making!
Recorded on multiple continents!
With vocals from beloved personality and Dune authority Danika XIX, and vocals and production from I, Akira The Don.
DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY is both a diamond-hard distillation of the wisdom of the ages, a timeless and futuristic cosmic space trap rock opera, and a summing up of the first 5 years of Meaningwave, as concise as it is anthemic.
You can stream on your platform of choice (https://go.meaningwave.com/DUNEWAVEODYSSEY), download the digital album here now (https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/dunewave-odyssey), and you can also, ...
Brothers and sisters! It is time!
Tonight, we proudly present to you… after four years in the making, the hour-long, sixteen-track opus, based on the works of legendary author Frank Herbert…
DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY
We shall be gathering together to listen to the record for the first time at 9PM EST right here.
(https://linktw.in/dNVi7F)
SEE YOU THERE!
LOVE! TO! YOU! AND! YOUR! FAMILY!
Akira The DonDon Studios Playa Del Carmen MKII, September 2023
STREAM & DOWNLOAD: https://go.meaningwave.com/BALANCEDJUDGEMENT
MERCH: https://www.meaningwave.com/pages/search-results-page?q=balanced+judgement
MEANINGWAVE VINYL: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/vinyl
“DO NOT GIVE SOMEONE A STICK TO BEAT YOU WITH.”
BALANCED JUDGMENT (https://go.meaningwave.com/BALANCEDJUDGEMENT) is the latest single from the forthcoming DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY, and the last before it drops next week!
(https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/dunewave-odyssey)
An intergalactic space trap anthem and meditation on the terrors of the prisons man builds for himself.
“CODES AND MANUALS
CREATE PATTERNED BEHAVIOR.
ALL PATTERNED BEHAVIOR
TENDS TO GO UNQUESTIONED,
GATHERING DESTRUCTIVE MOMENTUM.”
Lyrics adapted from Frank Herbert’s DUNE novels.
And that leaves us with just A WEEK till the DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY album releases!
(https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/dunewave-odyssey)
You can preorder the digital album here now, and you can also get… FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN ...
