David Husted Music

One step closer to leaning into a build and release.

Will decide by the end of this week.

Finalized distribution prep for my next song through CD Baby today. I expect to lock it in tomorrow, but I’m still fussing with the art. Here is what I am thinking.

It does have a Halloween-ish ambiance, kinda-sorta. I would…

Mahpiohanzia is a coined word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows that describes the deep disappointment of being unable to fly or float into the air.

Meaning and Origin

Pronunciation: "Mah-pee-oh-han-zee-uh"

The Feeling: It is the heavy letdown…

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily…

I’m putting the finishing touches on my next release.

It’s called Crow.

It’s a sound-design smorgasbord—a song that took a few unexpected turns while I was making it.

One of those turns came from a synth sound that…

I have at times ruminated on my music making adventures and wondered why I do it.

Cons

• Takes a great deal of time and effort for relatively low payback financially. (I now hear Jeff Spicoli's voice in Fast Times at…

Clearing
by Martha Postlethwaite

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into…

I made this a long time ago now. It was my first real attempt at a song in the synth EDMish genre

I thought it came out pritty, pritty, good.

Enjoy

Falling Off My Edges

I have a new song I’m thinking about releasing in about a month. A very Hallo-weeny vibe. Should I wait until closer to Halloween or just go with my usual pacing of song releases?

This one was purely a quick,…

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

E. E. Cummings

Photo by…

ESCAPE BY D.H. LAWRENCE

When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with…