notes

One has to respect the working artist and entrepreneur for having the faith as well as the heart to believe, achieve and succeed. As most already know, being an artist is not for the faint of heart. One has to be able to endure the lows of the doldrums for many moons ever before even seeing the peak of the mountaintop in the distance. Sincere artistry takes a focused tunnel vision. The world outside is full of noise and distractions that seemingly get placed in the path along the way to test one’s metal. Which way will you turn? Will you follow the crowd? Will you shrink to fear and doubt due to the mutterings of others? Will you turn inward towards the outside world of artists surrounding you and become bitter at their achievements? Will you fall for the outward applause and attention of the “suspected” onlooking crowd and forget to be your authentic self? I surely hope not!

These days you hear a lot of talk about “getting back to self” in both the regular world as well as the metaphysical world. Particularly I feel that a portion of my artistic journey for this life and long haul has been about that indeed. Life and the things we grow and go through lead us, if that be the case, to forget self. We all are products of our immediate environments and the situations and people surrounding us can influence our ideas and beliefs to the point we tend to end up far from our original ideas of self. Most people we encounter are just going through this experience like non player characters in video games. No knowledge of self, no real direction, just a blank thought blowing about and swaying in the wind like a crumbled piece of loose-leaf paper. While the burden may be heavier and the binding much thicker. I find it best to be solid, knowledge filled, heavy and put. Ten toes down so they say. It’s the challenges that make a man/woman and lead us back to capturing our authentic essence of self.

I’m releasing the pre-sale link for my upcoming album “Omnipotent Methodology” Tuesday December 23rd at 12 noon. December 23rd is my late son’s birthday and as a celebration of his life I felt it proper to offer to the people a Holiday advance sale of the physical album. This is a project that I am very proud to bring to life and birth to reality. Aligning the date of the advance physical release of this album with the date of my son’s birth just seemed like everything right to me. Let’s revisit those challenges that make a man and lead us back to authentic self. If you know my story, then you know my son passed away 7 years ago on June 18th, 2018. It’s not like I love to revisit the tale or the memories of that day. It’s just that It’s important for me to add because that sunny day in June was the day that I was challenged with a tragedy that rocked my foundation and shook me to my core so hard that I had no choice but to release the version of self which I had known to exist and seek to find my authentic self. Not a reimagined self. Not my new self. Just me, myself and I. The road was rough and arduous, but it seems that we have made it.

I might crack a smile when ain’t a damn thing funny. I might shed a tear amongst the laughter and cheers. I might wear a silk shirt in the Amazon if I damn well please. So long as I am in my authentic energy and doing me. You do you and let me do me. I know it’s non-conventional to release an album up for physical release before digital releases these days and that’s cool if you feel indifferent. What I’m offering is an opportunity for those who believe and know is a chance to buy in and grab their copy of the physical album at the lowest price that it will ever be offered. It’s not that I know they will all eventually sell out but it’s the fact that they will all eventually sell out, and the price is elastic upon inventory!

It’s a love offering.

– BLAX

Omnipotent Methodology. Available on Bandcamp 1/23/26 and on all DSP’s 2/13/26