I’m sitting here at my kitchen table taking in the sun and enjoying the first days of spring. You know that feeling when it’s been cold during the night and the morning shadows have no warmth but when the sun hits your skin it’s like a battery charging every molecule in one’s body. The changing of seasons is a special thing. The ending of old and beginning of new cycles.
Today my album PRISM is out. The third season of four. It feels poignant for me. PRISM took me on a ride and helped me process so many things from the last 7 years. They say every 7 years one’s body completely renews. Every cell is different to what it was 7 years before. I’m literally completely different physically (other than bones) than I was when I started this journey.
With every birth there’s also a death of sorts. A baby having spent all its known life in a womb feels like the world is ending when nature forces it out of all that it’s ever known. And that time will never be again. On the other side is a completely new journey and beginning - Life!
I kinda feel like that right now. I’ve done a lot of growing in this “womb” time. And now the creative expression of that time, and in myself, is now being forced or even “called out” into a new life and season.
So yes excitement is here along with anxiousness and fear of what is to come. No matter how many times I’ve done this it always feels like the first time. Every time I leave an old exoskeleton and crawl out of that old skin, raw and uncalloused I feel wide eyed and a little weary, the unknown feels BIG, exciting and a little scary.
So I write you all with all those feels.
I’m proud and grateful of what I was able to create with PRISM. I’m thankful to the songs and music that kept me honest and digging deep to satisfy them and ultimately help me meet a bigger, better part of myself in the process.
I made it for me and I am satisfied. I release to the world in the hope that it can maybe be there with you on your journey and in some way be an ally and dear, caring friend on your journey. Whether you’re crying, dancing, laughing, trippin’ or just needing to be alone with some “sound stories”.
I’m so grateful to have had so much love and passion for my music from all the “family” that have bought my albums, streamed my songs and come to our concerts over the last almost 3 decades. 3 DECADES?!?! What a FUCKIN trip. Grateful is an understatement. It’s profound and a gift I hold so gently, gratefully, humbly and dearly. Thank you, family.
Thank you to my amazing team at Jarrah Records and Phil Stevens Management, Kester, Tiff and Danielle. THANK YOU to James Ireland, you helped get these songs outta me. Man, I so needed what you had to bring to this project. To James Newhouse for beautifully mixing a very dense and full spectrum PRISM of frequencies and instrumentation.
Ok that’s me for now. Hopefully see you out there somewhere in the ‘never never’ on our journeys.
Big Love in these crazy times,
John
WATCH Going Solo Official LIVE Music Video. 'Going Solo' the 3rd official LIVE music video from PRISM is out now. Recorded in Boorloo / Perth. Directed by local Fremantle Legend, Luna Laure.
We are honoured to be travelling the country with the spectacular Emma Donovan as our special guest. A soul powerhouse of epic proportions, Emma Donovan is not to be missed!
In Darwin and Cairns we will be joined by our beautiful friends The Waifs for a spectacular night of indie rock and folk bliss. (Emma Donovan will not appear in Darwin and Cairns).
PRISM (coverart)
PRISM, John Butler’s 10th studio album, marking a departure from the John Butler Trio moniker is available now. ORDER & LISTEN HERE
With full PRISM vibes emanating from the new merch. Head HERE for the full selection available worldwide.
