2nd week in the studio with the toughest of the clients:

:)

My week-day studio routine:

  1. Make coffee

  2. Go downstairs, turn everything on

  3. Reset the ears with a music favorite (depends on the project I’m working on, this morning for example: Come Together by The Beatles)

Coming to Substack feels such a relief as it becomes impossible to spot anything one actually wanted to see among the force-fed content on major social media platforms. I basically follow the same people on both Instagram and Substack, but I just always end up looking them up rather here, away from all the noise. I just wonder, how long it will take β€” if at all β€” until all that noise starts polluting my Substack Notes too? πŸ€”

When Galaxies Collide / The Ultimate Question: 2 short films by Andres Hidalgo

After so many years of making music, I’m still astonished every single time, by its healing, cathartic, connecting power. Deeply touched by this heartfelt homage to the late Eoin French aka Talos.

New era commences.

Rainbow in Lanzarote

One of my favorite reads of the year!

The 60 Best Albums of 2024, According to Some Guy in Chicago

In case you want to see 98-year-old Dick Van Dyke dancing in a Coldplay video. Is there a better way to grow old?

Have you ever noticed how, as you get older, music festival line-ups resemble eye-charts? I know pretty much all the acts in big letters, but as I move down, nothing. I am nearly legally blind. I used to recognise them all.