Tag: Artist in 40s

Hi. I know — I’ve been quiet.

Not gone. Just quiet, at least when it comes to music.

I never really stopped performing or creating. I wandered into other spaces, other platforms, other ways of expressing myself. Life changed. I changed. And somewhere along the way, music stopped being the place where you heard from me the most.

But lately, I’ve felt myself being pulled back to it.

We’re living through a strange moment. AI is everywhere, technology is moving faster than most of us can process, and sometimes it feels like creativity itself is being treated as something that can simply be generated, optimized, replaced, or mass-produced.

I don’t believe that.

Technology can do incredible things. But it can’t live a life for you. It can’t carry your memories. It can’t know what it felt like to lose someone, fall in love, fuck something up, survive something you thought would break you, or wake up years later and realize you still have something to say.

That’s where art comes from.

And I still have something to say.

So I’m working on my comeback and, more importantly, a new album. I’m putting together a few ways for anyone who wants to be part of it to support what I’m building. Every contribution helps — truly. Studio time, production, visuals, musicians, equipment, releases… all those little pieces eventually become the thing you hear and see.

I also know money is tight for a lot of people right now. The world feels chaotic enough without somebody on the internet pretending otherwise. So support doesn’t only mean money. Share the music. Share a link. Tell somebody about the project. Come along for the ride. Support an artist friend whose work means something to you.

It all matters.

Maybe this is actually the perfect time to make something.

When the world becomes difficult to understand, artists have always helped tell the story of what it felt like to be here. Sometimes a song says the thing we couldn’t find the words for ourselves. Sometimes it’s a photograph, a painting, a film, a performance — something another human being made because they needed to get a feeling out of their body and into the world.

I want to do that again.

So join me. Let’s see what we can cook up together.

I don’t know exactly where this next chapter will take us yet, and I think that’s part of what excites me about it.

I just hope that when you finally hear what I’ve been working on, some piece of it finds you exactly when you need it.

Thank you for still being here.

D. Fountain
Stay tuned. We’re just getting started.