Folk

Hello hello, I’m Kathleen! 

I’m a Boston born independent singer/songwriter (go pats), currently residing in Nashville, TN (yeehaw?) I’ve been actively releasing music for about 10 years, but really just got into my own groove over the past few. Growing up in Massachusetts, I was deeply inspired by Irish and folk music. My dad introduced me to Alison Krauss and I’ve been writing sad shit ever since. 

This is my very first drop with Sound.xyz but my introduction to web3 came a little over a year ago. During the pandemic, I had a few sessions via zoom with my friend Matthew Chaim. At that point, his idea for Songcamp was really brewing and I could tell how excited he was for what web3 could become for independent artists. I didn’t want to miss out. I was then a part of Camp Elektra as well as the most recent camp, Camp Chaos. Songcamp became the ideal playground for me to learn & experiment in this space alongside this group of people, whom are now my family. 

I wrote this song a few months back while on tour in The Netherlands. I was experiencing, for the first time, being away from a partner and having it feel really healthy. Before this, I wasn’t used to the idea of someone fully supporting my wandering spirit or the fact that my career can take me elsewhere for weeks at a time. I also hadn't found this time away in the past to be very successful.. had been cheated on multiple times by the first guy I ever fell for, blah blah good timesssss my dudesss

“best or worst?” is my talking through that pessimistic side of me.. when I don’t mean to self sabotage, or talk myself out of enjoying the present moment.. but I do! At times when my life is going really well, I find myself being scared to get tooooo happy. It’s like my “what’s the catch?” mentality creeps (hey, therapy!!). Anyway, life is full of the push & pull of inner thoughts and I wanted to be honest about that. 


Thank you so much for being here,
and thank you Sound.xyz team for the platform x
KR

best or worst? #12

Kathleen Regan

Today is Aug 12 2021. 

It’s 10am, I’m currently sitting at a bar drunk. I just got broken up with, I never understood what heart break felt like till now. I’m heading out to Dean Street Studios in London to meet Mr. Hudson right now for our first session. 

We wrote this on George Harrison’s piano, and did this song in one take. Before I had to catch a flight. I haven’t written a song in 10 months, today inspired me to write one in 10min. This song is called fourteen hours. 

This is my genesis music NFT and my first release as an independent artist. 

Fourteen Hours #17

Harry Hudson

My name is Mark Johns, I’m an artist living in LA and have been making music since 2015.

I wrote this on the piano in my room a couple years ago and immediately ran downstairs to bang on my neighbor Brenton’s door. He was in a session with our friend AO beats and I basically hijacked it, begging them to help me turn the piano into guitar. We recorded the whole thing in less than 20 minutes. I cried a bunch and that was it.

Anytime I wanted to put it out I was talked out of it by somebody telling me that there wasn’t enough in it to latch on to. What even is the hook here, there’s no drums, the guitar sounds like ass etc etc etc. I had no interest in changing it so I just never released it.

It sucked cause songs like ‘I’m sorry’ are the songs that I feel like a part of me is embedded in. They are the ones that take 20 minutes to write because you don’t need to think when you’re telling the truth.

Feels special for this to be my genesis NFT, and I truly appreciate every single one of you who takes the time to listen.

I'm Sorry #9

Mark Johns


I’m Hayley. I’m from flat, cold, wonderful, Winnipeg and I live in LA. I’ve been doing some amount of this music stuff since I was a very tiny person. 

For the first time in a very long time, I am in a healthy relationship, and it’s been interesting to navigate my relationship to releasing music in the process. I don’t yet feel compelled to write about being in healthy love. My instinct is to continue diving into my pit of wounds, just sloshing around in the sludge that is my dating history rather than embracing where I am now. 

I’ve spent so much of my life being attracted to men who make me feel like garbage. Fetishizing struggle is my investigation into why that pain means so much to me, why I keep circling back to it, dipping my toe into it, dancing around in it.

Enjoy and take a picture of yourself crying. You know you want to. 


fetishizing struggle #4

Hayley Gene Penner

A moment in time in the transient nature of love.

From the EP 'behind my eyes'.

Lalin St Juste - rough sketch of love

Lalin St Juste

For a long time I've ruminated on posting my full musical journey, like from the very jump, but first I want to test the waters. Consider this that test. This takes place 10 or so years into that journey - from 2018, written about moments with a person I'll never get to see again. Minting this is choosing to open that vault and not only discover my past but help write my future with me. I've been through a lot, but I don't think I've been through more than you or anyone else, and hopefully my experiences can help you, whoever you may be, know that our experiences are shared and you're not alone in whatever you go through. Love, Nadav

Nadav - #494 - Ocean Eyes

Nadav

Almost a year after her debut EP, Lauren Juzang released her first single “Yeehoo!” from her upcoming project on November 9. “It describes the little moments when falling in love when there's nothing you can do about it,” Lauren says about the song. “It’s fairy-like, sort of in the way falling in love is. It’s my favorite thing I’ve made, and I still get the same feeling listening to it as the day I wrote it.” “Yeehoo!” originated from a guitar riff that co-writer Gabe Yaron posted on Instagram that Lauren wrote over and brought to long-time collaborator Jason Vance Harris to produce. 