THIS WEEK IN MEANINGWAVE!
GREAT WEEK WOO!
MUCH EPIC ACTIVITY!
For a start, Hercules graduated from dead hang training to pull up training in the gym this week, launched a new Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@IdiotMarioBros302), AND hosted the first half hour of a stream (https://linktw.in/RzRJRl), doing his first DJ set and adding a bunch of epic commentary commentary to some Meaningave classics. His reaction to the Charlies Bukowski-penned BORN LIKE THIS was particularly entertaining.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BornLikeThis)
We also had a brand new mixtape, the effervescent NEW LIFE, and a brand new accompanying merch drop.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/NEWLIFEVOL1)
We shall be celebrating all this and more on stream tonight (https://linktw.in/lvlard), with our beloved weekly PARTY show! (https://linktw.in/lvlard)
MIXTAPE:
NEW LIFE | A Meaningwave Mixtape
(https://go.meaningwave.com/NEWLIFEVOL1)
MERCH:
NEW LIFE MERCH
(https://www.meaningwave.com/pages/search-results-page?q=new%20life)
Now handing over to Jayson Eva for the stream recap!
STREAMS:
🔴 CHILLING | MEANINGSTREAM 506
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM506)
After a super-heavy Friday Party Night, we enjoyed a shimmering and calm lofi hip-hop set interspersed with chill Meaningwave gems.
🔴 90s | MEANINGSTREAM 507
(https://linktw.in/sOZIMU)
Capping off the weekend with a 90s PARTY. From hip-hop to britpop, post-rock to punk-pop, acid house to rave, we time-travelled through myriad nineties vibes…
That was amazing,” wrote viewer MarcSoer, “best flashback playlist, such great memories!”
🔴 SUPER REQUEST SHOW | MEANINGSTREAM 508
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM508)
Everyone was so hype as Meaningwave Classics of the audience's choosing were deployed like tactical nukes.
Akira confirmed the release dates for the upcoming albums and singles.
🔴 JOCKO VINYL TEST PRESSES - GET SOME! | MEANINGSTREAM 509
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM509)
Jocko Willink GET SOME Vinyl Test pressings were evaluated and found to be glorious! ENERGY! POWER! MEANING!
🔴 FAITH | MEANINGSTREAM 510
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM510)
A meditation on the matter of FAITH and journey through some appropriate Meaningwave classics. Have no fear coz Meaningwave is here!
🔴 MAGIC ✨ | MEANINGSTREAM 511
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM511)
We are blessed by a special guest appearance from Akira’s son Hercules the Don, as he shares his talents in rapping and handling the helm in steering the stream in a majestic path.
PURE MEANINGWAVE BLISS!
Thanks for that Jayson! Hold tight for the new video next week. Meanwhile, I can now report with gladness that our distributor has done their duty and the first single from the long-awaited MEDITATIONS VOL. II will be BETTER THAN JUSTICE, releasing on March 29, followed by the album on April 19th!
See you tonight for the PARTY STREAM!
(https://linktw.in/lvlard)
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON
DON STUDIOS MEXICO, FEB ‘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!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
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 ...
