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IF THIS ISNT NICE I DONT KNOW WHAT IS

by Akira The Don, Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut is not new to the Meaningave Universe - one of the earliest Meaningwave releases was a musical version of an audio book of his deeply prescient dystopian warning on the horrors of enforced equality, Harrison Bergeron. I have long been an enjoyer of his works, and consider Cat’s Cradle one of my favourite books to this day.

I first read of Kurt Vonnegut's “If This Isn’t Nice I Don’t Know What Is” philosophy in a collection of short stories, the name of which currently escapes me, that currently resides with most of the things I collected in my first three decades on earth, back in a storage facility in north Wales somewhere. A simple and radically powerful philosophy, gifted to Kurt by his uncle Alex - when you notice something nice, you make a point of pointing it out: “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is!”

I’ve carried that with me ever since, and it has served me better than I can tell you. I have been looking forward to turning it into a song since long before Meaningwave was crystalized as an artform and a psychotechnology, and now, here at long last suddenly, it exists, and if that isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

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released January 27, 2023

🎵 Produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Akira The Don
🎙️ Vocals by Kurt Vonnegut & Akira The Don
🎵 Mixed and mastered by James Millar & Akira The Don
🎨 Art by Akira The Don

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