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the bonk way is my collaborative contribution to The Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: Autumn Waves 3 Sample Challenge

I didn’t know what to do with this edition’s sample pack. I lack the required chops (I am sample-challenged), and I said as much on Mastodon...

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#music #musique #album

As I wrote on Mastodon in what turned out to be an interminable chronicle of the making of offbeat :

I’ve never released an album. I write and publish individual songs that progressively outline and become part of albums, sometimes jumping around from one album to the next.

But collaborating on projects on the fedi has taught me something I usually lack : patience. Weeks or months often go by between the moment I finish a song and its release.

Which has probably put me in the necessary headspace to think of a whole album before I’ve actually finished any of the songs.

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Downfall was written back in October for the Four Seasons of Bonk Wave fall album, which was appropriately released in spring (if you’re in the northern hemisphere like me :)

Downfall also sparked and opens my upcoming album, offbeat.

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#music #musique #video

Hot on the heels of my smash hit Ukulele Bonk video (and my sleeper hit Bercée d’illusions video), I am pleased and proud to present a new, hand-animated video for my 2024 track Driven By Desire about making art in the age of slop machines.

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Hot on the heels of my Ukulele Bonk video, which went kind of viral for a few days among my followers on Mastodon, comes a simpler, more subdued video for Bercée d’illusions, a song from my last EP that I’m particularly fond of.

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Well that escalated quickly.

I made a video for Ukulele Bonk, my contribution to The Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: A Midsummer Bonk’s Dream 1, in a single cold winter day, and barely a week after the launch of The Indie Beat Television.

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A song that I wrote and recorded before overthinking it. The idea (and the key to the song) came from a dream, which says a lot.

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Sample challenge!

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#song #music #musique #collaboration

Hot on the heels of his smash hit Hi It’s Spring, I was delighted to partner again with Sam (@ethicalrevolution@climatejustice.social) on Better Than That.

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