I’ve been writing music and songs for several decades now, and every single time I finish a piece, I wonder if it was the last, if the well has run dry.

Well it sure didn’t happen this year. I can’t believe I put out so much stuff! Let’s see...

New songs

I wrote, recorded and published the following new songs:

• Driven By Desire (radio edit and extended mix)
• Unreal
• Entangled
• Anagram (and the #bonkwave cheer)
• Living The Dream (my #Fedivision2024 entry, which made the top 10!)
• Let Me Off
• Bercée d’illusions

I also contributed two songs to the Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume 003 triple album:

• C’est quoi (le bonkwave) ?
• La sieste/Don’t Mind Me (I actually did 4 versions of this one: instrumental, then with French lyrics, then totally different English lyrics, and the one on the album, which has the French lyrics in the left ear and the highly processed English lyrics in the right ear 😅)

Livestream

I did my first livestream ever as part of the #RadioFreeFedi #fediwave series, and played these 11 songs unplugged (sorry, no recording, you had to be there), including some that were never meant to be playable live on a guitar. And it got great reviews, too!

Collaborations

And last but not least, I contributed:

• Electric guitar to the January edition of @ChelidonFrame’s Asynchronous Drone Orchestra
• Vocals (and a bit of guitar and piano) to the Bonkwave Allstars Happy Bonkwave EP
• My own Rugged Scrublands version of Happy Bonkwave
• A spoken recording of the numbers 1 to 12, for a mystery project. I mention this because the result, Tart of Noise – Rejoice in 12, by Duchess Of Snork, which appeared on Disk 3 of Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume 003, is awesome!
• Acoustic rhythm guitar (and tubular bells) to @Futzle’s gorgeous and moving I’m Staying Home This Christmas
• Plus other shenanigans behind the scenes...

I wonder if I missed anything (and if I have any music left in me? 😅)

Time will tell, and while this frenzy probably betrays an urge to escape the worlds’ downward Spiral, it was also inspired and fueled in large part by the incredible talent, creativity and energy of my fellow musical fedizens, most of whom I discovered through Radio Free Fedi and the tireless community-building of the Hamster behind the wheel.

Thank you thank you thank you ❤️.

My new song, Living the dream, was especially written for this year’s fabulous #Fedivision song contest, and I am now finally allowed to reveal it to the world!

BREAKING NEWS: my song made the top 10!!!

May 27 Now that the contest is over, you can find Living The Dream, my official #fedivision2024 entry which made the top 10 (at number 9) out of 72 tracks \o/, at the following fine locations:

• My music site
• My no longer super-secret hidden Faircamp page
• My Bandcamp site (free download or name your price)

Thanks again to the #fedivision organizers and to everyone who went out of their way to vote for my song and/or say nice things about it ☺️❤️.

(Strangely enough, this song is a musical version of a blog post!)