era sun sound

10/21/2023

keys please !

08/22/2023

Lúila killing it on the Vocal tracking for ‘Hopes, Sparks & Angels’ & i don’t know how much was left in the tank after pushing her to her limits here .

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068304067172&mibextid=LQQJ4d

a co-write with the music written/arranged/performed by yours truly & lyrics/concept/melodies by Lúila + a guest appearance on its way from Weenz .

08/16/2023

bonding over BaWa .

making buds over a shirt but more so, a band… even more so, RAD people .

this group putting down FIRE demo’ing their new Record 24 tracks Live Off The Floor .

08/16/2023

build forts .
Drums Record Demos .

07/28/2023

RELEASE DAY • the very first ever release from .on.neptune drops today on all of your go-to platforms !

https://music.stonesonneptune.com/the28thday

this band was incredible to work with & it was such a privilege to be a part of bringing this to life .

the song cries for a breaking of patterns, an ask to liberate feminine energy, & to cleanse these old systems that are grossly flawed & far behind the times. it’s an ode to the universal experience of all women & that when her power is found, she is indestructible .

Produced / Engineered / Mixed by:
jef

Mastered by:
connor .studios

check it !
let us know how it
resonates with you .

07/25/2023

you gotta Love more inputs !
soldering day w/

07/22/2023

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06/18/2023

06/11/2023

bass w/ Sixteen Scandals

05/29/2023

back in the boooth !

02/27/2023

guitars w/ of

02/26/2023

go time .

12/22/2022

hot new track from ukrainian artist osenniy !

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making friends for life over tracking sessions .

support the arts !

https://songwhip.com/osenniy/acid-house?fbclid=PAAabElXC68afN6zS-cNWao1akBBlzj4h_BXr-1YW2jm6zVykscfGi-GGmbYg

Listen to "Acid House" by osenniy on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip

12/01/2022

- team poppy

vocals / agtr / pno : Ivan Rivers
lead gtr / ocean swells : Devin Staple
support vocal : Kara Lea Manovich
producer / eng : Jef Harrison
mastering eng : Laura DeRocchis (absent)

give it a spin on your platform of preference & let us know about it, however it hits you .

Ivan Rivers - Poppy

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/poppy/1655237614?i=1655237616

https://open.spotify.com/track/3gNyziOhwr2MJE7rftrkoc?si=LZ_8e5u6RBaTs5YA8IB2vg

12/01/2022

a true honour & pleasure to help bring this piece to light . was heavy & heartwarming throughout the process to do it justice the right way... the way it deserved .

introducing : poppy

poppy by ivan rivers
out now

this is a love song for my old love tess. I’ve spent time singing about her before, whether in sacrosanct and spiritually surreal numbers, whether coded in quips in more simple-sounding tunes. really, I haven’t stopped singing about her since we lost her. she’s there in my sonorous heart, sung out in the not-so-empty ventricles where she lends her spirit as she does in the many people whose lives were held bright by her presence and left dark in her absence.

I’ve often felt her song wasn’t mine to sing, so I often speak and spoke in hushed tones and whispers until my shaky heart and loud brain burst in spurts about the kindness she showed me in our brief time together. she meant so much and more to so many people, but she still and always has meant so much to me.

today’s her birthday. we all lost her five years ago but I wanted to give her memory and her life a little gift that wasn’t shrouded in some shamanistic mystic glow. I wanted to write her a love song, a country song, a hurting song, a song to let her know in plain-spoken speak that she hasn’t left my mind since she’s left this plane.

all the love in the world to her and her memory, her family and friends, and her once in my arms as I once laid in hers.

produced and engineered by Jef Harrison at Era Sun Sound
mastered by Laura DeRocchis
vocals, acoustic, and baby grand: Ivan Rivers
guitar and ocean swells: Heavenly Devin Staple
accompanying vocals: Kara Lea Manovich
album photo and art: Ivan Rivers, taken from our first date

hbd t aka poppy xoxo