Buen dia familia! It’s a beautiful day to be alive here at the peak of recorded days to be alive. This week I have been working on the artwork for the next two albums, including their associated singles, instrumental versions, and so on, and BY JOVE they are looking beautiful and I am excited to announce the release dates this week!
As always, keep an eye slash ear on the streams for previews and the first glimpses of new material… last night we played a track from the next album, which I can now confirm is called THE STRANGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD and features vocals from the legendary Earl Nightingale… Something many of you have been asking me to do for many years now, and something I’ve been looking forward to doing for many years as well…
Check out the replay of last night’s stream for that, and join us tonight as we celebrate the completion of a whole WEEK with a suitably jubilant PARTY!
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THIS WEEK IN MEANINGWAVE!
MEANINGWAVE SUPER REQUEST SHOW! | MEANINGSTREAM 481
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM481)
Meaningwave classics chosen by YOU were deployed like bullets from a life-giving machine gun… Another classic request show!
AN0MALY | MEANINGSTREAM 482
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM482)
We were joined on the stream by brother AN0MALY, cultural and political commentator, rapper, and world-famous disco-dancing chandelier-botherer. We talked about when he used to come to see me DJ in Hollywood, tactics for surviving the forthcoming year of hitherto unimaginable propaganda fare, and he decided to rap over some of my instrumentals without warning, in the manner of a warrior.
MANLY P. HALL: THE MYSTERY OF TIME ⌛️ | MEANINGSTREAM 483
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We did one of our patented lofi livescores for a classic talk from MU superstar Manly P Hall's The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Development. The whole thing was a beautiful and useful journey, and came together in quite the euphoric fashion at the end. High fives all around.
REGULATORS!!! | MEANINGSTREAM 484
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On Thursday we engaged in EXTREME VIBE REGULATION.. And as mentioned previously, debuted a brand new song from the forthcoming album, THE STRANGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD…
SEE YOU TONIGHT FOR THAT AFOREMENTIONED EPIC PARTY! And hold tight for the release dates of the next two albums - THE STRANGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD, and MEDITATIONS II, next week!
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON
DON STUDIOS MEXICO, JAN ‘24
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!
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Art by me!
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I worked in a bunch of factories when I was 16/17, after I'd left home.
Sauce factory. Cardboard box factory. Car door handle factory.
The former was the hardest because I was working in the freezers, packing bags of sauce for 12-hour shifts with nothing but local commercial radio and the speed-addled ramblings of my co-workers to entertain me.
The cardboard box factory was the most fun because I got to slide down this three-storey chute into a skip full of cardboard and jump up and down in it to squash the cardboard down. I'd always leave the place shredded with paper-cuts, but that made me feel like a warrior.
The car door handle factory was the worst because it was the most boring - literally just picking a spring out of a greasy bucket and jamming it into a wedge of plastic then passing it to the old lady to my right, for 12 hours, in a giant air-hangar looking-ass hall with a great big clock looming over us, that ticked with all the lugubrious lurching urgency of a ketamine zombie outside a ...
“Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud?
Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud
But while it's still going before he has died
A man may do many things worthy of pride”
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley’s poem of the same name, MEANINGWAVE is proud to present a new single…
WHY NOT
(https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT)
Why Not? (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is but one of hundreds of poems written by the perennial zone inhibitor and Appreciator Of The Wonder Of Being, and published in magazines and newspapers between the 1910s and 1940s. It is classic Braley, an anthem for the glory of man and all his achievements, past, and yet to come. And now you can sing it.
Oh, and that cover art there? That’s a picture of me back in ‘91 when I was around 11, which is my son’s age.
WHY NOT (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is out now. Download (https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/why-not) or stream on your platform of choice now ...
Been in the studio since 4am, guess what album I’m working on?
I shall be sticking to this new schedule ‘till the album’s done, at least, and then we’ll see. Heck, maybe I’ll like it. I liked it today, I gotta say. There’s something magical about going to the studio in the dark, getting an amazing new song mixed while most people are still sleeping, then stepping back outside to find the sun rising. Oh! What a glorious thing!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/OhWhatAGloriousThing)
I worked till 10:30, then cracked open a White Monster - another experiment - and walked down to the gym in the blazing Mexican sunshine. Jamie was leading a Crossfit class, and happy to see me as ever, and I was happy to find the entire squat/bench area unoccupied, and got some work in on my lifting. I don’t know if it was the early start, or the new song, or the White Monster, but despite having been away from the gym for ten days due to a cold that I had no desire to disseminate, I was able to lift slightly heavier ...
