hello all,
i wanted to talk to you about the record that is releasing on november 27th titled ‘music for an honest winter funeral’.
this album is not a traditional studio release from myself and acts as more of a soundtrack in my creative team and we are treating is as such. there will be some visual creative output for the record in the near future, however, i will not be heavily promoting this record or talking to the press about it. the story of the album is going to come from me and can be found below:
in my life i have watched many wonderful artists, muses, friends and family come and go. i have been to more funerals than i have weddings. i have experienced more pain than i have joy. i have witnessed more hardships than i have your typical online portrayals of a perfect life. i have been betrayed more than i could trust and i have been abused more than i have been loved. i navigate the world with all of this in mind and i have become a very introverted individual on a personal level, often misunderstood by those who would cast the first stone. i am extroverted on a professional level (in all my professional endeavours) because my expertise gives me confidence, and such confidence fuels the works i do.
death has always been a very close companion of mine throughout life. i lost a close friend in primary school as a little boy due to an accident at sea. i lost a close musical friend in my late teens to suicide. i watched my father die when I was 14 years of age and i buried my grandma and uncle soon after. i lost multiple close friends in my late teens and early 20’s to pneumonia, cancer and diabetes. in my adult life i have laid to rest more family members and witnessed working relationships in the music and film industry end as we laid my creative partners to rest. in a manner of coping i have written and recorded music for myself and sometimes for the funerals of those we lost and these songs have been played as the coffins lowered into the ground.
in this sense, i felt that as an artist who prefers to create raw and emotional output in my music, i would collect all of my scraps from the studio floor that have been recorded in my grieving process and release them respectfully as one entire process of grief from the moment you discover a loved one has died, to the moment you let their belongings go and try to continue on with your life. this, i have done many times now.
these recordings now become ‘music for an honest winter funeral’ - a soundtrack album with songs that are sometimes just music as i cry into the void i am experiencing, and at other times, vocals as i try to make sense of my place in an ever emptier world of my own. the album begins at the moment of loss, and continues through my various stages of grief and trying to make sense. ‘music for an honest winter funeral’ is an uncomfortable and honest soundtrack album for life after death. not a movie. not for fun. it is for feeling, and accepting those difficult and complex feelings.
although the album releases on stores on november 27th 2025, i am releasing the entire album to stream for free on my soundcloud with full download links too. the music is yours for free, before, during and after it arrives in stores around the world.
grief is hard. grief is very lonely. through creating this music, i was able to process my grief. i hope by sharing it with you, in all of its vulnerability and honesty, it is your companion through a most difficult period of life, the grieving process.
with warmth,
daniel xox
