@Freddie Webber I’ll personally make sure it will eventhough you gave your pinky promise 🥲 hope the tour is going great! 🦦

@Freddie Webber thats great to hear! well make sure to enjoy it as much as possible and as long as it lasts. I'm sure your unwritten songs will forgive you and wait for you on the other side 🦦

@Peter Monrad sorry man I’m only now getting to this. I love how granular you go with sidechaining. I also sometimes use it to give the lead a bit more presents, but never tried sidechaining just specific frequencies. that’s def next level! but I don’t think you’re overdoing it. your Tracks sounds extremely smooth and not over edited in the slightest - still very tasteful mixing. and same here, I love going deep in the post-production. so who said there’s a right or wrong here. as long as it’s fun, you’re right on it imo :) oh I envy you a little for having that tremolo pedal. which track did you do with that? is it out already? and YES, recording starting next week 😌😌🦦

@Joe Cabrera awww man that's special! I love that so much, and I'm sure that guitar will have a special place in his heart. is he playing already? 🦦

@Martin Eibisch thank you, my friend :) I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it. it's a bit of a scary step to get more and more transparent with the whole process. I guess I'm moving more and more toward the “building in public”—which I both always wanted to do, and it's scary bc what if I fuck up? 🥲 as you said, I hope to see you on the next hangout call to cheers to that and your vinyl store :) and same to you, same to you 🫶🏼🦦

@Max Fedoseev hey man, thank you so much! I really feel it has been a long, slow incline. I guess it's really just a tribute to finding a system that worked for me / that I managed to pull off consistently for three years. oh I actually never heard of that. but now I'm intrigued, and I did a bit of digging here's what I found out. collabs don’t automatically mean shared reach, apparently. spotify does not reward the fact that something is a collab—it rewards signals that show both audiences actually want the same track (saves, playlist adds, follows). three things that seem to have the biggest impact on how the collab performes: 1. both artists need to be set as primary artists. if one is just a feature, the track behaves much more like a solo release and reach drops fast. 2. release radar isn’t spread to all followers. as I understand it it’s a bit like short form content algos—first, it's played out to a “sample group” of you and the other artists followers. depending on saves, playlist adds, and early engagement, it may or may not reach the next push to a bigger circle of your followers. and whether people have interacted with both artists before seems to play a role as well 🙃 3. especially with instrumental music, people listen for mood and use case. if the collab sits slightly outside what one audience usually listens to, spotify knows that and keeps the release rather quiet. since most of these were actually true, it's probably the missing engagement with the releases themselves that led to the push being not as big as I thought it would be. also I just compared the collabs with my other songs, and especially the collab on the "birds of a feather" cover is performing better than most other releases of mine. like the top ten, I think. I'll keep you posted on the my learnings, should I find out new things about how collabs work. now regarding pandora, that surprised me as well. I've already asked nat from sky valley about that, but he doesn't seem to have his fingers in the pie either. what I can see is that a few of my tracks (time off and flowers) both got picked up by big artists's radio stations—hermanos gutiérrez and khruangbin. how? i have no idea. but these bring in plenty of streams. I attached a screenshot. apparently most of my songs are 97/98% algorithmic plays.

@Graeme Ross you're very welcome 😌 thank you so much for that insight on how it went with the other community. let's learn from that and: 1. keep the community free forever. 2. decide on new structures together. and that's a great plan for this year! I'm sure together we'll get you there sooner than later. how is it going with recording and learning your daw? how can I/we help you? 🦦

@Graeme Ross haha ok hope you can replicate the happy accident! in general in my creative process hold them very dearly. ofc first you should have recording and saving the project figured out, from then on I wish you many happy accidents. and as I said, if you have any questions let us know 🦦

congratulations on your first release, @Jacopo Ramonda !! as martin said, your tele sound is very tasty indeed, and I could really drift away to the moon 🦦 if you feel like sharing, I'd be very interested in the backstory of this release / why you wanted to release this one first. and also, how does it feel to have your first song out? :) a good assition to the guitarwavers playlist 😌

@Jacopo Ramonda aw man I love this! first of all, welcome again to becoming a published guitarwaver and to the guitarwavers playlist - the circle you've been surrounding yourself with, you're a part of now 🦦 second I love these old ideas that accompany us and our path for so many years at times. I get why you wanted this one to be the first one. also bc it's bridging the gap so beautifully, as you said, between your different projects, your past, present, and future. are the other 9 tracks on your lp similarly structured / do they have a similar sound? and what got you inspired to take the step away from writing music with/for lyrics to instrumental?