Hi there! I’m D. Blade, a musician from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is my first solo album. It is called Home Recordings 19-23. I’d like to thank you for taking the time to listen to it, and if you’ll indulge me I’d like to share a little about it with you.

As the title suggests, this is a collection of songs written and recorded between 2019 and 2023, although one or two of them are older (the first part of The God Shivers in particular was written in late 2016, if memory serves). The majority of the writing and recording was done in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown, however the subject matter has nothing to do with the pandemic outside of the bossa nova I wrote commemorating my stay in a lockdown hotel during that time. This album is meant to be a time capsule of the feelings and experiences I had during the first five years of my adult life, expressed through musical styles that are a reflection of my tastes during that same span of time.

I’m not really sure how I feel about this album. It’s the end result of trying to fulfill a childhood dream of creating a record fully by myself and doing so by executing a vision that I had at 23, and part of me feels like it was a fool's errand. It certainly sounded better in my head before I recorded it, and it ended up kind of being a mess. But it’s a mess I’m proud to take responsibility for, and I feel like I have done right by honouring the wishes of my younger self and completing it. I certainly owe him that much.

Credits:
All tracks written, arranged and performed by D. Blade except track 6 which was written by Clay Parton and Dove Amber.
Tracks 2-6 and 8 produced by D. Blade. 
Track 1 produced by D. Blade and PHLLY.
Track 7 produced by D. Blade with additional production by Matt D. Jadischke.
Cover art designed by D. Blade and assembled by Devon Acuña.
“Extremely Cursed” symbol created by D. Blade and Brontë Chenier. 

Special thanks to:
Absurd Collective, for being so wonderfully accommodating and enthusiastic about helping me release my music.
The Blade and Spenst extended families, for always being curious about and supportive of my endeavours.
The innumerable friends and musical peers who continue to encourage and inspire me through their words and creations alike. 
Mom, Dad, and Savanna, for their continued patience and support, as well as their immense love of music that did so much to shape my own.
Brontë, for her contributions to the visual aspects of the music and for always believing in me.

Heading For The Door (Duster Cover)

Qualms Of Humanity

Easy

New single! Something more adventorous this time!

Lyrics:

In shadows cast by moonlit skies
Across vast lands and mountains high
A lone traveler embarks on his quest
To journey beyond the stars

Through icy forests and the haunted plains
He ventures forth, with his destiny ordained
To seek the truth that lies beyond
The cosmic veil, where the stars respond

Through the nebulous veils of time
(In the realm of eternal night)
Lost in worlds of frost and rime
(Beyond the stars, beyond the light)
He journeys on, never asking why
(His quest unending, his spirit soars)
Under the shroud of the blackened sky
(Seeking the truths forevermore)

The mountains loom ahead in sight
Their peaks obscured by eternal night
Yet the traveler still presses on
His spirit unbroken, his resolve strong

Through the valleys deep and rivers wide
He forges onward with a fearless stride
His heart set on the horizon's gleam
Where there's visions of a lifetime's dream

Through realms unknown, he travels far
Past galaxies, both near and far
Caught in a trance by shimmering light
A symphony of stars ignites

And in the shadows cast by the moonlight
He wanders through the cosmic night
A veil of darkness, so cold and deep
Guiding him where the stars do weep

Journey Beyond The Stars

A sampling of my newest full-length album Mirror World, a collection of delicate, meditative, dream-like instrumentals juxtaposed with passages of intensity and catharsis.

Full LP available on Bandcamp: https://skeletalworks.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-world

Shadows in the Mossy Corridor

High Tide on a Sea of Stars

Giant Leaps

The Stellar Sea

A Slow Burn Inside

https://prophetgoddess.bandcamp.com/album/database-animals

hand crushed by your sidekick

u pick out all my words
n hang em overhead
n i thought i would find u
right back where i left
so now i cant remind u
what was rly said
what i rly said

i found ur message in the sand
i wasted all of what i had
sedated, we wont understand
ur fading off from the right hand

open up the blinds
just beside ur bed
we look up at the sky
n dream of how it ends

(dream of how it ends)
x4

i found ur message in the sand
i wasted all of what i had
sedated, we wont understand
ur fading off from the right hand

brevity

music that a skeleton is making

follow on bandcamp: https://skeletalworks.bandcamp.com/

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