A friend and I did a beat battle where the only rule was to use a flute in the beat. This was the result! Made in 1 hour. I love super fast stuff like this. I really like the result even if it’s not polished. 

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I went to an event called Loveburn a few weeks ago and it was cool but I was bummed that the whole thing was seen as a revolutionary kind of event but that the whole thing was powered by diesel generators and required a lot of consumerism to be able to happen. So that mixed with being sleep deprived and eating shitty food I started making this tune. I didn’t super enjoy making this one once I got back to civilization because it’s more negative than my headspace usually and I didn’t enjoy going back there. I could spend more time with this but I want to move on. 

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This week is another cop out haha. I’m still not caught up and I have a conference this week in Atlanta that I’m playing at for Citizen’s Climate Lobby. This is a clip I made during the Summer Support Drive last year. 

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I went to Love Burn and then a retreat for work last week and so I’m a little behind on songs. I have some new stuff from these weeks but it’s just not quite ready yet. So here’s an older demo I had done with a buddy of mine that I never did anything with. 

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I recently got to spend some amazing time with a friend of mine. We camped at a festival in Miami called Love Burn and then went to a friend’s wedding and then a retreat in Orlando. I made this song this morning about last night. I’ve never had an experience then written the song about it the next morning and then showed it to the person from the experience the next day. Check it out 🙂

3/6 update

I keep noodling with this one. I wrote a bridge. I’ll probably actually record this one for Spotify

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I think the singular focus of our time should be solving the climate crisis. And at the same time, I can’t carry that baggage all the time. I believe the biggest way I can contribute to change is through making my art. But this isn’t about making cheesy jingles for renewable energy or whatever. Sustainability is a lack of human connectedness to the systems around us. And these songs are about me processing my life through my art. I’m trying to walk this line of being committed to exploring sustainability and realizing that sustainability is so wholistic and big that we can’t do that without integrating our broader selves.

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If you logged on for the summer support drive last year, you’ll remember this track as I wrote it back then. The idea was to celebrate a buddy Chris Castro for taking a job as the Chief of Staff of a new office of sustainability created with funds from Build Back Better and the Inflation Reduction Act. These represent the highest point of government spending to fight climate change and I’m super curious of the affects we’ll see from them. I love hearing updates from Chris about all of the work their doing. Super cool. 

My favorite line from this one is “it’s too cheap to burn pterodactyls. 

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It’s always tricky trying to express sexuality. It’s such an easy topic to avoid as a someone who is unfortunately quite often hearing from friends how someone made them feel uncomfortable or were even assaulted. But we can’t just shelf our sexuality either. It’s a big part of what makes us us and it needs to be integrated into who we are. This is a tough one to release as a weekly demo because they are never perfect and this topic is sensitive enough that it’s difficult to put it out there with flaws. But in the spirit of making songs and moving on, here it is. 

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Well after last week’s song…I’ll just put this here…Haha. I might actually finish this one and put it up on streaming but I wanted to put the demo up here today. I think I might go back and layer the vocals more. I really love the rap a lot. 

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For the first time in a while I found myself turning to music making to cope with feeling overwhelmed with emotions. This week I told a really special friend of mine that I had feelings for them and they told me they didn’t feel the same way. And we were both so clear and open about both sharing that it made it sort of a beautiful thing. But it was still hard. Writing this was a big part of my processing and being able to listen back to it was so soothing. Enjoy 🙂 

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Lyrics

Onion peeling bummed I’m feeling
This is real heart holding honest feeling (pain)
Honor code I tried to hold a higher goal
Holdin doors open to my hopes until they close (eh)

Life is such a mix of give and take
Acceptance is a book and while we try and turn the page
Hold it to the light to try and make out what it says
But skipping to the end ya I wouldn’t recommend to you nah nah

When you told me nah
I felt it in my shoulders huh
Sorta sagged
Goofy laugh kinda sad
I don’t cry I fold in half
And try to walk it off and write til I don’t fuckin feel so bad
I guess I had it all wrong like ahhhhh

And what I said was hard to say
And when we didn’t feel the same
Fuck I felt that in my heart and veins
Expected to celebrate
Now I’m tryin stop a train
Tension in my back and brain
Defenses start to activate

But actually just accolades are in admission
She navigated that position she was in with some real precision
And meanwhile I might not get what’s missing
But that ain’t for me to say and I respect it either way cuz

Ain’t nobody gotta love you
But yourself
Ain’t nobody gotta love you