Brothers and sisters! We are excited to present our latest JBPWAVE VINYL CAMPAIGN UPDATE! (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/akira-the-don-jordan-peterson-jbpwave-vinyl#/)
GOOD NEWS!
The first test pressings have landed!
Test pressings are the part of the vinyl production process where the pressing plant makes a gang of - you guessed it! - test pressings, to make sure everything sounds as amazing as it is supposed to.
Here's something crazy. These first test pressings are for the Be A Plumber 7"... Be A Plumber, of course, is the first official Meaningwave song ever released. And the week these test pressings arrived was exactly 4 years after we first released that song.
What do I always say about synchronicities, and how they're signs from the almighty that you're on the path...?
Incredible.
As you know, due to Tom Hanks Disease Related disruptions to the legal immigration system, my family and I were forced to leave the US at very short notice, with just a few suitcases, and are currently marooned in an Air B and B in Mexico, without access to my studio or a record player. Therefore we have a team of TRUSTED EXPERTS in Texas and North Wales who will be testing the vinyl for us, and I shall be delivering their findings shortly.
SPEAKING OF TOM HANKS DISEASE RELATED DISRUPTION!
We have confirmed that there is indeed currently a global vinyl supply chain disruption underway, which has pushed ALL international vinyl production back months. After learning of the delays from our manufacturer over the past month, we looked into potentially switching suppliers, but after investigating pressing plants across the world, we have confirmed that the issues are affecting the entire global vinyl production chain, and therefore switching suppliers at this stage would only delay the process further.
Current delivery estimates have us shipping the finished vinyl to your blessed door this winter.
Stay tuned for updates as soon as we have them!
The good news is we had our orders in before the supply chain issues kicked in, so we are at the front of the queue, and the process is moving, as we've recieved those first test presses.
Meanwhile!
All Monoliths have been fullfilled!
I hope you're enjoying them! Please send us your pics of how you're integrating your epic JBPWAVE Meaningwave Monoliths into your surroundings!
I sure miss mine!
In other news, as a thank you for your continued support, we've just mailed a special advance copy of the next Meaningwave single to all backers. It was recorded right here in Don Studios Playa Del Carmen, and you can even hear the lizards chirping in the background if you listen closely.
I hope you enjoy it, and thank you again for your support, and understanding, as we surpass all obstacles in our way, by Jove!
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA, Charlotte and Hercules, Don Studios Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, July 2021
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 ...
