STREAM & DOWNLOAD: https://go.meaningwave.com/ARRAKIS
MERCH: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/dunewave
MEANINGWAVE VINYL: https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/vinyl
The DUNEWAVE instrumentals (https://go.meaningwave.com/ARRAKIS) are out! Enjoy the epic soundscapes crafted lovingly for what many of you have called “THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR”!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/DUNEWAVEODYSSEY)
Out now on all platforms!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/ARRAKIS)
Meanwhile!
The DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY CDs and cassettes (https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/dunewave) have shipped to pre-orderers! And are shipping now from our fulfillment center in Texas! Get yours now while you can (https://www.meaningwave.com/collections/dunewave)! They’re beautiful! As you can see in this video (https://linktw.in/5ecVPC) where I open mine and do everything I can to contain the whirlwind of emotions it stirs in me!
SPEAKING OF WHICH!
I write this from Downtown Miami, where I am recovering from playing a special set at The Atlas Society’s 007 Gala (https://www.atlassociety.org/gala) at the Frost Museum Of Science last night. This was my first time in the USA since we got unceremoniously locked out in 2021, and my first time in Miami since I first came to the USA way back in 2004. A most auspicious time loop indeed.
I performed a trilogy of new songs I have written adapted from Ayn Rand’s ANTHEM, the first of which will be released next week. Meaningwave really is powerful - I can now recite chapter 11 of ANTHEM font to end. Soon you can too!
This was followed by a set of Meaningwave classics old and new. The whole event was filmed, so there should be some footage emerging soon, and I will write further on the whole adventure soon. Right now I need to go check into my next hotel over at Miami beach, where I get to discover as the water is still as, well, still, as it was 19 years ago, when I spent many happy days floating in it, gazing at the clouds and the airplanes flying above advertising club nights, Thinking Big.
LOVE! TO! YOU! AND! YOUR! FAMILY!
Akira The Don
Miami, October 2023
ALBUM: Akira The Don & Danika XIX - DUNEWAVE: ODYSSEY | Album
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/akira-the-don-and-danika-xix-dunewave)
MIXTAPE: THE BEST OF ALAN WATTS LOFI Vol. 2 & Epic new Alan Watts x Ram Dass online events!
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/the-best-of-alan-watts-lofi-vol-2)
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 ...
