OMG! It's a brand new 17 (SEVENTEEN) minute-long audio odyssey from your friendly neighborhood Don! Exclusively on RESPIRA NOW!
(https://www.respira.app/)
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Oh My God Isn't That Gorgeous (Peak Imagination Version)
Created here in Don Studios Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, the piece is built upon and infused with the very same sounds that I wake up to every day - birds, birds, more birds, and other such jungle ambiance... an intoxicating sonic cocktail that inspires and delights me every day. It started life during a conversation with Respira's Dr. Christopher Hewitt, which mostly concerned music, culture, and history (hidden, rewritten, and otherwise), and at the end of it, I had a fully fleshed-out vision of the piece of music I wanted to make.
And so I set to work and chipped away at it like one might a block of marble, until eventually the statue hidden inside was revealed, and lo, it did indeed emerge just as I intended.
The music has many uses, but one purpose was to create ...
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 ...