STREAM & DOWNLOAD: https://go.meaningwave.com/BOBBLEHEADS
MEANINGWAVE MERCH: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/wave-art/?sort_by=created-descending
MEANINGWAVE VINYL: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/vinyl
RING THE ALARM! NEW GOGGINS MEANINGWAVE DROPPED! NOT A DRILL! NEW! GOGGINS! MEANINGWAVE! DROPPED!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BOBBLEHEADS)
This is one of those fortuitous, spur-of-the-moment, had the phone rang or something it wouldn’t have existed type joints…
As you know, I have Meaningwave projects planned out years in advance, but I always allow a little wiggle room for The Striking Of Inspiration. I was working on one of those scheduled albums not long ago and had set one of the tracks to render, taking the opportunity of a few moments of free time to answer some Instagram DMs.
I never made it to the DMs. At the top of my feed was a David Goggins video (https://www.instagram.com/p/CqRJKJ0LafO/), one of those ones where he’s running and delivering some righteous sermon or other. They’re always great. I unmuted the video, watched it, and instantly heard the whole song in my head, as it unfolded before me. With some subjects, finding the inherent melody and rhythm in the spoken word can sometimes take a little time, but with Goggins, it is always instant. He speaks only in pure uncut ready-to-roll BANGERS.
Incidentally, I just picked up my phone to get the link to that aforementioned video from Insta. And guess what was at the top of my feed? A new Gogins video (https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvvy6ezLmXO/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D). That there is what they call synchronicity. A sign that you are on the path. Walking with Allah, as Malcolm X put it.
Enjoy this fine new Meaningwave banger, dear reader. The music video drops Monday. Then hold tight for ANOTHER new single, from another Meaningave superstar, next week. You’re gonna love it, I just know.
OK, I gotta go find my son something to wear at my little brother’s wedding tomorrow. He’s been made a viscount, and will be engaged in some ceremonial aspect of the, um, ceremony… So I need to find him something suitably swaggy. Luckily, I am smack bang in the center of Copenhagen, where it seems one could close one’s eyes, spin around, fire a grenade launcher, and hit a swaggy clothing retailer of some sort.
May the road rise with you, Meaningwave enjoyed!
LOVE! TO! YOU! AND! YOUR! FAMILY!
Akira The Don
An Airbnb in the middle of Copenhagen, August 2023
ALBUM: PRESENT III - The Naval Instrumentals | ALBUM
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/present-iii-the-naval-instrumentals)
MUSIC VIDEO: Akira The Don & Naval Ravikant - Escape Competition Through Authenticity | MUSIC VIDEO
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/akira-the-don-and-naval-ravikant-088)
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
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome to the quarter century mark. That sure went by fast. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas - THAt sure went by fast! And now here we are in the new calendar year.
My distributor informed me a few days before Christmas that they were shutting shop for a few weeks, so I’d not be able to get any new releases out until January 18th, which put a lil crimp in our NEW MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY schedule…And it occurred to me whilst under the barbell in the gym on New Years Eve, which is where all my best ideas occur to me, to make you a special mix for the New Year. So I did. And that mix is now live for you to enjoy.
GO!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
Patrons and supporters on Patreon, Youtube, and now X can download the mix for free here.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
MEANWHILE! I am taking the extra time I’ve been allotted to make what would have been this week's single extra beautiful. So it’s getting a gospel choir, which I always thought it deserved. And you’re gonna...
“I want you
To understand what it means
To lose your freedom…”
Ross Ulbricht (https://freeross.org/case-overview/) is currently serving two life sentences in a maximum security jail, where he’s been since 2013, for creating the world’s first online digital marketplace based around Bitcoin.
This is his story. Told in his own words, via phone-call from prison, transmuted into music.
Understand what it means - to lose your freedom.
Stream and download the album now on your platform of choice.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/FREEDOM)
Join us live for the visual premiere on Youtube here from 2ET
(https://linktw.in/bMjfSr)
I met Ross’ mother, Lyn, late last year, when I was in Miami to perform my Ayn Rand EP (https://go.meaningwave.com/ANTHEM) at the Atlas Society gala. The World renowned “Pimp On A Blimp” Alex Stein very sweetly invited me to a party being hosted by Tim Pool, where I had a lovely time and met a number of fascinating people, and late in the night I was introduced to Lyn. ...
“You can't pursue happiness
You could pursue a wild animal
You could pursue a ball
That's rolling downhill
You could pursue a car
You could pursue a dog
Because those are all real
But happiness you can't pursue
You could end up happy
But you can't pursue happiness
There are two things
You can pursue
That'll get you there…”
Make some noise for the grand return of Scott Adams () to the Meaningwave Universe! And with a song that couldn’t be more perfectly Meaningwave if it was synthesized in a lab by a team of 100 genius-level Meaningwave scholars 2000 years from now...
CHASING MEANING
(https://go.meaningwave.com/CHASINGMEANING)
…is out now!
I sent it to Scott last week, and he replied straight away, “I love it! But I am biased.” Which is fair. I love it too, and I hope you do too. Hey look! Here’s the music video!
(https://linktw.in/USRVHE)
Wonder where it’s gonna show up in next month’s MEANINGWAVE TOP 50, huh? SPEAKING OF THE TOP 50!
The MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 ...
