“Too much
Too little
Too fat
Too thin
Or nobody
More haters than lovers
People are not good to each other”
I had not planned to make a Charles Bukowski album, at this time. As you may know, I have albums planned out years in advance, a great big beautiful roadmap sketched out like the star chart they used to find the Engineers in Prometheus. But between creating albums, I tend to allow a little room for pure inspiration and make a few unplanned songs. Following the completion of the GOGGINS II album, on one fine afternoon, I was so inspired, and I sketched out a rough demo of this song... It was just guitar, and vocals, but I could hear it completely in my head, orchestra, harmonies, crashing cymbals. I did love the purity of the guitar and vocals. It was a hard song to sing, it kept making me drop single, manly tears. I listened to it a few times, and then I put the song aside, and made some other things.
It called to me, some weeks later, on a Sunday and I returned to it. It was still very beautiful, ...
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
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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!
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What’s a Yuga? What’s a Satya Yuga? Or a Treta, or a Dvapara? What’s Kali Yuga? Why are we in it? How long’s it go on for? Also Akira, when are you going to put some Gregorian chants in a song again?
SO MANY QUESTIONS! And yet somehow, all of them just so happen to be answered right here, with the assistance of the great David Lynch, on this brand new Meaningwave masterpiece…
KALI YUGA
(https://go.meaningwave.com/KALIYUGA)
It’s not all bad! But! You could say, we all deserve to be here… during this time…
KALI YUGA (https://go.meaningwave.com/KALIYUGA) is out now on all platforms (https://go.meaningwave.com/KALIYUGA), and you can enjoy the glorious music video, that samples Ron Fricke’s 1985 abstract masterpiece, Chronos, right here.
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In other news, it’s Mammadon’s birthday. Happy birthday Mammadon!
Hold tight for the HANK (https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK) instrumentals coming next week, and thank you for all the beautiful messages you’ve ...
HANK is the brand new album from Akira The Don and Charles Bukowski.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK)
HANK (https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK) draws from years of interviews and poems to create 14 beautiful songs - 11 brand new, including the instant classics BLUEBIRD (https://go.meaningwave.com/BLUEBIRD) ft Harry Dean Stanton, LET IT DIE (https://go.meaningwave.com/LETITDIE), and THE CRUNCH (https://go.meaningwave.com/THECRUNCH), along with a gang more that you will come to love, featuring Bukowski’s meditations on life, loss, loneliness, love and all that comes between and after, entwined with an exquisite string soaked soundtrack from Akira.
The set also features a trio of beloved Meaningwave Masterpieces - The Genius of The Crowd (https://go.meaningwave.com/THEGENIUS), plus the Tom Waits-voiced Nirvana (https://go.meaningwave.com/NIRVANA) and The Laughing Heart (https://go.meaningwave.com/THELAUGHINGHEART).
You can read about how Akira came to discover Charles Bukowski and the inspiration behind ...
It’s a new month, which means it's time to count down the most steamed Meaningwave songs across DSPs for the past month, on the
MEANINGWAVE TOP 50
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)
Chart data is compiled from streams across digital streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and now YouTube and X. We have a gang of new entries this month, along with some major re-entries… is your favorite in the chart? And who’s at number one? Tune in live now and find out!
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LABOR DAY SALE!
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It’s Labor Day in the USA, and in keeping with tradition we have a sale on for the next 24 hours… get 20% off everything with code WORK at checkout now!
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GAINS!
(https://twitter.com/akirathedon/status/1830001558823846150)
Good news! I transcended my goal of being able to lift my bodyweight this week. I wasn’t expecting to hit that for a few weeks… but I jumped 20lb after doing extra bench practice 3...
