uh, hi it's me Love&Peace... This is... what's the name of this album? 2021 Claude Monet Calendar. I'm pretty sure. uh so yea I'll introduce the basic concept right now, cuz it's a little- it's conceptual. So, the idea is, I've got a 2021 Claude Monet Calendar. Happy New Years btw. I can hear myself talking btw, it's fucking me up a lot. I might take my headphones off, fuck this. Uh, so. Yea. So basically every month has a different Claude Monet painting, obviously. What I'm gonna be trying to do is, uh, cuz I was thinking like, Claude Monet... I'm a musician, he's a painter (could I make it anymore obvious?). At the end of the day, we're just artists communicating through different mediums. So I was trying to think of like: wh-how does he go about communicating as a painter? I mean like I don't even understand painting at all. I barely understand music. I'm just getting started. So, like, trying to even like, vaguely understand it I feel like I could learn a lot about just, you know, communication as an artist. So, my plan is, not just to recreate each painting, month through month, throughout the year, but to actually take sort of sections and aspects of the painting, "recreate" them musically by trying to understand what he was trying to communicate, and then trying to communicate that. Um, and then taking the aspects and looping them together to make sort of, you know, just all these different songs. So sort of trying to sample the painting. Turning the painting aspects into music and then sampling the aspects together (combining would have been a better word here). That's the general concept. Um, this first one is The Frost, uh 1885 I believe. Uh, interestingly enough this is by Claude Monet (no way dude poggers), there's also a different painting called The Frost though. Uh, in, Le Giv- what is it? Le Givre or something like that? I literally looked up how to pronounce it. I read his whole biography just a fucking couple minutes ago. Yea, Le Givre. Um, interestingly enough same painting- or a painting of the same name: The Frost, also painted in Le Givre uh by Alfred... fuck how do I already forget his name? Alfred, yea, Alfred Sisley. Um, who was actually a friend of Monet's. So interestingly enough (hat trick), this painting that we're starting off with, is sort of a reference? Sisley painted uh his Frost first. So I think that this Monet painting is sort of a little nod to Alfred Sisley. They were like buds. They met. They collaborated, um, but yea. Uh I'll, I don't know. Maybe I'll cut this short a little. I'll probably try to add some music as well so it's a little more entertaining to listen to. Uh- *instrumental break*. Uh, ok, so I think the January painting, uh to describe it, it's sort of a painting of Giverny- uh correction, it's not of Giverny. It's of Le Givre. Giverny is where Claude Monet lived, but this painting was just not there. It's just a similar sounding name. Whoops- which is where Monet lived and had a- famously had a- this incredible garden that he worked on his whole life. Uh, most of his paintings- ah ma- I don't know. I won't say most, but a lot of his paintings are in Giverny and of his garden. Um this looks like the woods, there's, it's snowing, there's a campfire. Like uh, a little bit like a, not like a dock, but like wooden remains of like, you know, someone's been having some shit around here. I think there's shovels. It's very vague, you know, it's a Monet painting, it's watercolor (lies, it's oil on canvas) it's, it's like that. Uh, I think, I'll probably either first try to sample, or I'll try to recreate the like bright white aspect or the campfire first cuz those are the most sort of striking right off the bat. This one's gonna be really difficult I think cuz it's a very vague paint, but I'm really interested in it and, you know. I'll figure something out. Um, alright. And the last thing I wanted to say before the album starts is um, peace to Daniel Dumile. Rest in power. Alright, so this is specifically the white specks. Uh, the snow on the leaves, it's the snow on the leaves specifically. That's what this sort of loop is meant to represent. I'll just let this play out for a bit, and then um do a different one. Then I'll start combining them together, you know? *instrumental section*. Hello, ahaa. Um, yikes. This is loud. So basically, at time of recording, I'm furious. Uh, it's January 31st. I have not worked on this at all. Like, once maybe. This looks like it's recording too loud. Maybe that will add to the angry vibe, but uh, yea, it's been horrible. Um, it's not that I forgot to work on this. It's just not been very inspiring. Uh, and then also I'd lost and had to recover some of the files. So, that didn't really help. Uh, but it's also definitely my fault, so I'll work on the next one a bit more. Um, yea this is more. This sort of piano is like I guess supposed to just be more snow. There's really not a whole lot to sample in this one. It's just a lot of snow actually. So, hopefully the next one's a little more interesting, and if you notice, the percussion is sort of the shovel. If you actually go look at the painting I guess. Probably, no one ever would. Uh, but yea. Um, fuck. What else is there to say? See ya in like a couple of seconds, on the next one. Next month. It's 11:50 right now. I'm literally finishing this with like 10 minutes left. It's horrible. I'm just uh, I'm working way too much. I hurt so much. I'm in so much pain. My back, my legs... It's a nightmare.

No lyrics, but in the calendar this painting is given very bright and plasticky colors that were not present in the original. The motif for this one was a weird synthetic feeling.

"Under the cliff, well sheltered from the rain, convinced that the sea was going down. I was not afraid of the waves that had just died a few steps away from me. In short, completely absorbed. I do not see a huge wave flanking me against the cliff, and I tumble into the foam with all my equipment. I was able to get out in all fours, but in what a state! Good god! With my boots, my big arms, and the wet cake. My palette remained, and my hand had come to my face, and my beard was covered in blue and yellow." Uh, that's a quote from Claude Monet. I'm choosing to include it here. This painting is La Manneporte, uh painted in 1883. Fun fact, my calendar is a cheap recreation of it. I'm pretty sure it was not painted by Claude Monet, the version I have is obviously not at all. This is fun. This is a little funky part. Um, yea, I included this quote because it's uh March 31st so hello. Just getting this recorded, um I'm gonna work on the beat a bit. I got that done yesterday. This also coming in, I got done yesterday. I mean hey you know, sometimes you fall in the ocean and you, you know get the, the wet cake on your face or whatever, and that's what I look like right now. Wet cake on my face, you know, but hey, you know next month I'll get I'll- ayyy next month ayy come on, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be so good. I'm gonna really slam dunk that one. Uh, big time. You know the whole point of the album is really about me, uh, learning. Um, so yea, hopefully I do. Hopefully, I get better. Hopefully, each one of these is a little... First three, I'm not gonna lie. It's been a little messy, but uh, I can do better, I'm sure. I've got a lot of time. Uh, well yea. That's all for this one folks, much love. See ya next time.

This month's painting is Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse. It was painted in the summer of 1872, a little after Monet and his family had moved into a new house. They had just spent a little over a year in self-imposed exile because of the Franco-Prussian war. During that time, they were struggling financially, and little Jean Monet was sick. However, an art dealer was able to help Monet to get enough money to move back into France after the war. He rented a house in Argenteuil, and painted little Monet in the garden a little after they'd been living there. I tried to convey that sense of triump, peace, and childlike innocence in this. It's my favorite painting of his so far. During his life, he kept it in his house and never exhibited it.

Well, we've reached December. I must say, I feel like this album, over the course of this year, has become more a monument to executive dysfunction and adhd in general than to Claude Monet himself. Nonetheless, I'm very happy with how it turned out, and I'm sure if old Claude were here, he'd think my beats were really cool and he'd wanna smoke weed with me. This last painting is the Rouen Cathedral: Sunlight Portal, 1894. I personally never would've picked a church for a closer, but I'm glad that it turned out to be this one. It fits really well. There are a lot of versions of this piece that Monet painted at various times of day with different color palettes. I'm really glad I got the sunlight portal version. That definitely became the theme of this one. While I'm wrapping things up, I'll say that the whole wet cake thing from March is nonsense. You see, of course Monet spoke French, and so the quote I read was necessarily a translation. Uh, it wasn't a mistake. I knew wet cake was a mistranslation, but I liked the way it fit in the quote, and I think it conveys its meaning extra well because of that. Still, I really don't know what to say. It's Christmas, so I wanna get this recorded so I can get it ready for release. I want to release it on January 1st, but it wouldn't be out of character for this album if I failed to. I was hoping there might be some string of words I'd be inspired to use to sum up my feelings on the year, but there doesn't seem to be. I did just look up some Monet quotes though, and I think I found one that does a good job of conveying my feelings on the matter, though I can't find where he supposedly said or wrote this (and) therefore can't prove that he said it. Though it is attributed to him commonly so we'll just use it for convenience sake. Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have this desire to do everything. My head is bursting with it.