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October Special: at the garden

Morning guys! Since I'm alone until Monday, I'm going to try and concentrate on writing new songs, but don't worry because yesterday I prepared a few photo sets for you that I'll be posting during the weekend, this is the first for today, in the garden :)

We took a nice day off last Thursday and took some photos just for you. Yesterday I shared "Brickwall", and here we tried a different thing, hope you like it. Pics were taken by Martin Cortes.

Have a great weekend!!

Yesterday (Part One - Chapters 7 & 8)

CHAPTER 7

Eva had been confined to her room all day upset and waiting for Adrian to call her back.

She needed witnesses to her confinement so that she could torture him for a while when he got back. She had it in for him.

Her cell phone rang, it was a hidden number.

––Hello?

––Eva Samper? –– asked a female voice.

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Shine (First Demo 2017)

I started working on this song on December Friday 1st of 2017. I had previously written the bass line and the chord progression, I think it was on 2015, but it was this day when I started working on it, after demoing “All Systems Go” the week earlier. I love Fridays, I don’t know why, Friday afternoons I’m always very inspired.

The song was born almost complete at once as you can hear here. I had some kind of enlightenment and although I was with a terrible cold, I managed to re...

Room Service (Part 4)

Hey guys! Hope you're having a nice Monday, I had a neck muscle contracture yesterday and doctor told me earlier I should rest today, so I'm just going to post this here and spend the rest of the day watching movies. I remembered this just after I posted on Instagram and Twitter that I was going to be making music at the studio. Minutes later I sat down and my neck reminded me why I needed to rest LOL. I'm sometimes like Dory the fish, my memory span is like 5 minutes. 

But let's g...

Coming out day special: Free!

Today is coming out day, and I thought it would be a nice opportunity to share this with you.

As you may know, I had a full career in music and another name before becoming who I am now. This here was the last song I produced that closed that chapter in my life. At the time I thought it was both ironic and fitting that the song tittle was “Free”.

This song is an adaptation of a Stevie Wonder song (fun fact, the adaptation was made by among others Ultra Nate) a...

Room Service (Part 1)

Hey guys! I've been wanting to share this set with you for a long time, but only now I had the time to start searching through the session for new goodies. 

This pics were taken on 2013 by Woofioso Photography in the Canary Islands and it's become one of my favorite sets. As it was with the "Magic" sets, they were thought of to be shown in Black & White, but I found out I also have the color versions, so I'll start working on them for a final post. 

Two of the pics w...

You On My Mind - Behind The Scenes

The new music video "You On My Mind" has finally been released! Have you seen it? 

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/9E7A1eUmVws

This are all the pics I have left form it's second day of shooting. At first the video wasn't supposed to have this black background scene, because i had been saving some footage of musicians playing violins and trumpets for the video. But when I saw the takes from the first day ...

Yesterday (Part One - Chapters 5 & 6)

CHAPTER 5

Eva's life was fairly easy, she conceded to herself while stepping into the treadmill. She enjoyed taking care of herself and mind-planning her future, with the reassurance that whatever happened, she would be ok.

Since she was a little girl she had been very aware of her status and that if she was smart and patient enough, she would have a nice and easy life. S...

NEW VIDEO! "You On My Mind" 1st look

Hey guys! Tomorrow is the day! I've just announced the release of my new music video and you're going to be the first to see a preview of it. We shot "You On My Mind" last Monday Sept 28th at home in glorious 4k thanks to a nice camera we were able to rent using your last month's pledges. Thank you so much for your support!!!

You On My Mind is the second song of my second album "2020-10-06 18:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Fun with masks & jockstraps :)

Happy Monday guys! I stopped my video editing this morning to edit this pic following last month's challenge by my friends of Qbo Bearwear. I think it's good to remind everybody that safety is still key if we want to eventually overcome this crisis. Please take care of yourself, if not for you, for others.

Pics were taken on Sept 10 by Martin Cortes...

Wallpapers!

Hello guys! Hope you're having a great weekend, I'm working night and day editing the new music video for "You On My Mind", but I took some time off this morning to fix this for you, a new set of exclusive wallpapers. The first one is PC standard, the second Apple iMac, the fourth is an Android phone standard & the fourth is for iPhone. Hope you like them!

I'm trying to have the new video ready for next Tuesday, including a little surprise just for you. Please let m...

Mysteria Showcase (Full Mix by Jose Spinnin Cortes)

Hey there! I haven't got the time to start looking through the film we got from Mysteria Origins and see if it's possible to build a video of the concert. I'm currently editing back two back the two videos we shot at the beginning of this week, and between that and some technical issues I'm having with my computer, I don't think it'll be available soon.

So I asked Jose Spinnin if I could share with you the showcase megamix he designed for me for that co...

Yesterday (Part One - Chapters 3 & 4)

CHAPTER 3

Ten, fifteen years, maybe even more.

It was myself, but many years earlier, I figured I'd be sixteen. 

I hadn't met Eva or dropped out of high school yet. I still lived with my parents in that remote village in Extremadura.

The latter I learned when, wandering nervously through the lonely, twilight streets, I rummaged through my pockets.

I...

Second day filming exclusive :)

Morning guys! This are a few pics form yesterday's music video shooting. It was a very busy schedule but we managed to get everything I needed to edit the video, that will be (fingers crossed) released on November.

I had two special guests joining this one: Farit, who's been on several of my videos (like "I Don't Wanna Fight") and Brandon White, an excellent queer artist, part of the Bearlin Records family. We rented a high end Sony camera that was operated by Martin Cortes and everythi...

First day filming exclusive :)

Good evening guys! I don't usually post this late but I didn't want to finish today before sharing with you some moments of today's shooting.

We did two sets of shots, one from 12 noon to 14:00 and other one from 16:00 to 18:30 and we shot almost all my scenes for the two videos planned. Tomorrow we will have two guests shooting their scenes and some detail shots of yours truly.

More news coming soon, have a great end of month!

BK Mashups - The Beautiful Chase (Jose Spinnin Cortes White Label Remix)

This mashup was produced by Jose Spinnin Cortes for my showcase during his set at the Mysteria Origins concert last September 12 on CDMX. It mixes the classic "Chase" by Giorgio Moroder with my song "Beautiful Nothing" from my first album "Songs For A Better Future".

This one was a delight to perform on s...

Yesterday (Part One - Chapters 1 & 2)

PART ONE

A Lonely Path

CHAPTER 1 

There are places you accidentally end up wandering back to. Events that unexpectedly end up shaping your life.

It happened to me yesterday, I woke up restless, hours before the alarm clock went off. Anxiety didn't let me rest. A thought repeated itself over and over again, drilling its way in...

An introduction to "Yesterday"

Hey guys, let me tell you a little more about “Yesterday”, my first novel you’re about to start discovering, now translated to English, as a exclusive here on this Patreon, starting tomorrow.

I started writing this book in 2007 and it took me almost seven years to complete it. I had been writing another one (unrelated to this one) but decided to put it on hold until I finished this one. 

This is a novel that required a lengthy but fascinating research p...

More news! :)

Hello guys!

I’m celebrating my 53rd birthday on the next Thursday October 1st (yay!) and I want to do something special to celebrate it with you.

I was already preparing something special for Halloween when I had an idea. As you may or may not know, I published a novel under another pseudonym on the summer of 2015, it’s named “Ayer” and it’s still available on Amazon, but only i...

Throwback to 2014

Hey guys! I wanted to post one of this pics from 2014 today on my Twitter or Instagram for #throwbackthursday AKA #tbt but hubby told me they were a little too much for those pages haha.

My idea was to say "fuck ankylosing spondylitis!!" (because today I have my trimestral check and everything is going well after years of fighting), but instead I shared this other pic, that also symbolizes what this condition had me loose over the years.

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BK Mashups - Sweet 2menkiss Dreams

This mashup was a complete surprise! I discovered almost by chance how well this songs worked together just last week, and a short version of it was included in my Mysteria showcase on Saturday. That little moment on the concert is part of a version Jose Spinnin is producing by himself now, and what you can hear here today it's my first own demo. 

I started working on it last week to show it to Jose, and yesterday (Tuesday) I resumed  recordin...

News!!!

Hey guys, I'm making some adjustments here and there on Patreon because I want to get for you the chance to be able to purchase annual subscriptions with a nice discount. That's why you'll notice some variations on your tier descriptions. I'm also setting things up to be able to add some new tiers (patronage types) with new and different benefits, such as signed CDs and books and even a limited vinyl edition we've been dreaming of for a while now.

I'm also changing some the benefits so ...

Mysteria Origins Showcase CDMX

Hello! Here you have all the pics I've gotten so far from this last weekend's Mysteria Origins Show on CDMX, where I did a showcase at the end of Jose Spinnin's set.

We arrived to CDMX last Friday afternoon, after a six hour drive. The first pic was taken 9am on Saturday, waiting for our rehearsal at the Open Air Arena. Joining me are Jose Spinnin and our dear friend Benjamin who drove the car and helped us on this trip. Maybe you remember him, he's featured on the pictures with me illu...

Qbo Bearwear #wearamaskchallenge

Hey guys! My friends at Qbo Bearwear asked me last week to participate on a mask challenge they are doing and here you have the promos they have been posting this weekend on Social Media plus, exclusively for you, the original pics we took last Thursday wearing some of their masks that I sent them.

Have a great day, more content coming today, stay safe, stay tuned ;-)

So Get Down (First Demo 2016)

The idea for this song was born around the 7th of June of 2016. I had been listening to Hamilton Bohannon those days and got inspired to build something like a "disco suit",  reminiscent of the first ballroom era in the 70's, were a speaker would pick a mike and start talking over the music (Soul Train anyone?). 

I started building little pieces of music, resampling them, playing some electric piano, bass and guitar samples and toning down the house beats to make it all sound ...

Meet Groovy! (Alan & Mike)

Hello guys, meet Alan & Mike! :)

Alan has been a Patron for two months now and he and Mike have been happily married since August 24th 2012 (happy belated anniversary guys!). Aren't they a cute and sexy couple?

They live in Pennsylvania currently, moving to Maryland the end of this month.

Mike is 54 and Alan is 34, he’s on the right on the first picture. Alan’s birthday is on June 28th and Mike's is January 13th. Alan is currently unemployed and Mike is a doctor.

All Systems Go - Official Video Premiere

Hello guys!! Sorry if I've been a little absent since Tuesday, but a migraine and the final image processing of the new "All Systems Go" music video had me away from the computer until this morning.

Tomorrow at 12pm (GMT-5) we will premiere the video on Youtube. Please click the link here to know your time zone equivalent and subscribe to it. After the premiere I'll do a special live broadcast to talk ...

Meet Miles!

hey guys, meet Miles!

He’s a sexy 33y.o. bear living in Ohio and has been a proud patron for a month now. He tells me he grew up in Michigan but has been living in Ohio for 16 years.

His birthday is June 22 and he is an overnight manager for a distribution center. You can follow him on Twitter here:

https://twitter.com/NitemareProgeny 

He tells me: “Im a huge lover of music and beautif...

2menkiss (First Demo 2016)

I wrote this song shortly after the horrible Orlando Pulse Club shooting that happened on June 12th 2016. The first reports suggested that the perpetrator got angry after seeing a gay couple kiss which some suggested might have been a motivating factor. Later investigations uncovered different motives, but anyway it is the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBTQ people in the United States and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 200...

Meet Zach!

Meet Zach, he’s a proud patron and sexy cub living in Portsmouth, OH (USA)

He’s 35 years old and his birthday was on August 7 (happy belated birthday!). He will soon start working as a Team Coordinator for a Hospice/Home Healthcare company and is single, looking for bears (he hints, like me).

You can follow him on Twitter on either of this accounts:

https://twitter.com/misuto_raccoon 

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