🎵 What Will It Take, by sknot
#song #music #musique #collaboration in #english
How did this whole sknot business come about you ask? Spoiler alert: don’t read if you want things to stay shrouded in mystery!
Back in June, I wrote a rather angry song, and I guess I felt hesitant to release it after the more positive albeit bittersweet songs on my recently released offbeat album...
I joked on Mastodon that I could release it under a pseudonym, and immediately thought of “sknot”, i.e. “not sknob“ maybe (I don’t pronounce the k in sknob or sknot, but you do you, I don’t mind either way.)
Plus it reminded me of a silly lyric that has been living rent-free in my head after hearing it played live only once on TV over 40 years ago:
She said your nose is running honey/I said sorry, but it’s not
(I searched for that song/live video yesterday and found it! And yes, I remembered the lyrics and melody correctly, because my brain is weird...)
ANYWAY, before talking myself out of it, I bought the sknot.fr domain name, whipped up a #Faircamp site, asked Ordos Mk.0 (@ordosmarkzero@ravenation.club) to master my mix, and then published the song there.
I also created a new artist under my Mirlo account, a great feature by the way, and published the song there also. I set it up so that all proceeds go to @mirlo@musician.social if you buy it, a small but heartfelt gesture of support.
But wait, there’s more!
To my utter delight, musician and remixer extraordinaire (and all around delightful person) C.Circo (@CCirco@ravenation.club) gloriously remixed “What Will It Take“, and took it where no sknob or sknot had gone before!
And there you have it.
Will sknot release more songs? Who knows!
(Although I’m told he has some half-written lyrics lying around, so I guess it’s at least a possibility.)
