Watch this before Friday’s release
Watch the live performance. Subscribe to YouTube. Friday we hit Spotify.
Watch this before Friday’s release
Hi,
Before “Learn To Play” drops on Spotify this Friday, I want you to see where it came from.
I just posted a live performance of the full song on YouTube — one take, building it layer by layer with the RC-600 and Ableton Move. This is how I make music, no backing tracks, just hands, voice, and realtime, live looping and recording
Watch it here:
If you watch it and it hits, do me a favor: subscribe to the channel YouTube’s algorithm weighs early engagement heavily, and having you there matters more than you know.
A little context:
Shortly after my debut release years ago, my Northern Liberties home burned down. I lost my 2 kitties, studio, my gear, and the direct-to-listener music platform I’d been building. Most everything.
I took time after that to rethink what I was doing and why. Not just how to present music, but what my real goals and purpose were as an artist, as a human.
I rebuilt. I coded Dough-Jo over 2 years (the platform is a work in progress, live now, 25 active users getting deeper experiences than streaming alone can offer). I signed a label deal with GSR/KMG.
And I’m showing up more to streaming platforms this Friday with “Learn To Play” plus two back catalog tracks, “Crack A Smile” and “If I’m Wrong.”
“Learn To Play” is about perseverance through self-doubt. “Some days down bad but never dead.” If you’ve been following this journey, you know that’s not just a lyric, it’s the last 10+ years.
What I’m asking:
1. Watch the YouTube video. See how the song gets built live.
2. Subscribe to the channel. Early subscribers signal to YouTube that this content matters.
3. Come back Friday morning for the Spotify links. Stream it. Play it twice. Hit save.
The first 48 hours after release tell the algorithm if a song matters. You’re on this list because you opted in years ago and stuck around. You’re the day-one core.
One more thing:
April 9th, I’m playing The Grape in Philadelphia, the same venue where I played my very first show as Cookie Rabinowitz over 10 years ago. My last gig there was the same night my house burned down.
Coming back to that stage, with the solo live looping setup, a label deal, and songs on DSPs, feels like closing a chapter and opening a new one at the same time.
Tickets are here if you’re in Philly: [ticket link]
Thanks so much for being here. Let’s go.
Cookie
P.S. Oh, and it’s my dad’s 87th birthday on Friday. He’s also releasing a song that day made with his lyrics and ideas leveraging Suno (AI music generator). Meanwhile I’m out here doing it the old fashioned way. Father and son both dropping music on the same day. The duality of man.
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