September 8, 2025 • 13 mins
With over 100 million views and a legacy of creating joyful, multilingual music for children, BASHO & FRIENDS today announced the release of his ambitious new album, "A Way to Be," dropping today.
This collection of genre-blending, emotionally rich songs is designed to help kids thrive in the world as it is.
Backed by a resume that includes songwriting for an Emmy Award-winning season of "Sesame Street," creative collaborations with Sesame Studios, and recent work as a scriptwriter for the PBS animated series "Skillsville," Basho brings a rare mix of educational depth and musical soul to his work. "A Way to Be" is his most personal and conceptual project to date, offering a core lesson for kids everywhere: believe in each other, keep trying, and grow together.
"So much of my career has focused on academic readiness for kids—counting, colors, and letters," says Basho. "But this album is about something deeper: learning about living fully every day. From celebrating kindness and learning how to bounce back from failure, to an anthem about how to show up for your friends, these are lessons about growing up and growing together."
A Unique Sound and a Universal Message
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This collection of genre-blending, emotionally rich songs is designed to help kids thrive in the world as it is.
Backed by a resume that includes songwriting for an Emmy Award-winning season of "Sesame Street," creative collaborations with Sesame Studios, and recent work as a scriptwriter for the PBS animated series "Skillsville," Basho brings a rare mix of educational depth and musical soul to his work. "A Way to Be" is his most personal and conceptual project to date, offering a core lesson for kids everywhere: believe in each other, keep trying, and grow together.
"So much of my career has focused on academic readiness for kids—counting, colors, and letters," says Basho. "But this album is about something deeper: learning about living fully every day. From celebrating kindness and learning how to bounce back from failure, to an anthem about how to show up for your friends, these are lessons about growing up and growing together."
A Unique Sound and a Universal Message
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-view-from-the-writing-instrument--1023245/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning, Hey, good morning. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm doing great? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with you.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I appreciate you making the time, dude.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What you're doing with music I wish I would have
had when I was a kid, because we had London
bridges falling down and Mary had a little land and
things like that. I mean, you put so much life
and energy and positive, positive thoughts into everything that you're
putting together.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh man, that's that means a lot. I really appreciated it.
It's a heartfelt experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'll tell you one thing that really caught my attention
having the scene with the child and the father that
is so important in this day. Dude, when I saw that,
I'm going, yes, that because I didn't have that as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah right, me neither.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And so I mean doing the videos and things like that,
I mean you you must really go into real careful
thoughts seeing what can we do that's going to be
a visual that's going to go with our song.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, absolutely, it's a I mean I come from a
background as a kindergarten bilingual kindergarten teacher and so a
lot of my thinking, and I was in a dual
immersion class, so half the time I was working with
kids that didn't actually speak the language that I was
teaching in. That's what immersion is. It's just like full
in Spanish. So you have to use body language, visuals, music,
(01:17):
anything that gets them to hook into what is the
concept and then attach that concept to some kind of language.
But based on the visual representation.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let's break down the song A Way to Be. I mean,
what went on inside your heart for you to say, yeap,
this is the way we're going to go with this song.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, man, it's really interesting. A Way to Be. The
album originally started as a more like pedagogical album. It
was going to be twenty things that your kids should
know before they finished kindergarten. The days of the week,
the months of the year, the letters, you know, how
to stand in line, those kinds of things, because I
thought it would be a very borderline viral album, the
(01:57):
kind of album that you know, every parent would want
theirs to know this stuff before they finished kindergarten. Over time,
it just sort of became twenty global lessons about being
a good person. And it came really because I've been
doing a lot of the songs with my kids, and
I thought, Okay, it's one thing to teach kids and
their parents about, you know, the days of the week
(02:20):
in a fun, catchy way. It's another thing to have
a song about how to be kind. And one thing
that I've been successful with is like earwormsy and once
you have an earworm attached to a good message, whether
that be a learning message for cognitive ability or a
learning message on how to be a good kid, people
are just singing it throughout the day. So that was
(02:41):
the evolution, and A way to be was like, it's
not the way to be. It's sort of my manifest though,
but I'm not trying to be prescriptive about it. It's
like I'm offering this up as a this is a
way you can be.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah. See, my wife is a retired kindergarten teacher, and
the thing that those digital boards that were up in
the front, I mean she would use that and use
music like this to really promoted going forward because we
are that generation that is connected to digital and you
make it possible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's definitely the thought I
mean on this album. Once it sort of found its
way out over time. I thought, this is the preschool
Swiss Army Knight. You know, it's got songs, guided meditations,
It's got a wake up song, it's got to take
a nap song, it's got to go play outside, song
to be kind, song to eat a meal, song with friends,
your neighbors, your community, all those things that at that
(03:29):
age you're starting with yourself and then working concentric circles
outside to explore the world. This is like that in
twenty tracks in fifty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well man, you've also got to get dirty song. I'm
an adult and I love getting dirty. I mean, I
was you made me feel like a kid again. But
at the same time it's say, oh I got permission
to get dirty man.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah right, yeah, I mean. And the song like in
my mind it takes place literally on my kids elementary
We live down the block from the elementary school, and
like it's it's there. It's it's those swing said, it's
that sprinklers that go off that the kids can't wait
to run in. It's it's that experience. And it's true.
I don't like, I'm not I don't ascribe to you know,
(04:10):
wear your nice clothes every single day, and don't you
know always color within the lines? Is that that's my philosophy. Loko,
lets your kids get through that's part of being a kid.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Part of the message that's in here. Using the harmonies
that you do. Are you not fine tuning what harmony
is even for a young mind, Because when people speak
out of tune, I think that's that right there, puts
them in a place where people go, I don't really
like that person. Why, I don't know, I just don't Well,
I think they speak out of tune. And when when
you listen to your music, it is so in tune,
and I think it trains a mind.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
M tell me more. I want to hear more of
what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, being a radio personality, you know, we have to
be in control of our pitch, volume and tone. So
when I hear people they in their sentences like this,
you know, and they do that, I'm okay, you're just okay,
You're not better than okay? Today? Can we get we?
Can I get a good or maybe a fantastic And
all of a sudden, so you listen to the vocal
tones and then and then when they say okay, I'm fantastic,
Oh oh, my god, Now you're in tune.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Wow. Yeah, I mean there's a that was conscious practice
and a lot of the producers that I work with,
John Alavazakis, he's out of Grass Valley, California, and he's
so great. He's like a child in an adult's body,
and he pulled a lot of that out. He saw
in me, the liveliness, and every time we do a
(05:26):
take together in the studio, he's like, but make it bigger.
And so now I'm always envisioning like groups of kids,
my own kids, like a concert that I'm doing in
front of preschool kids, and so it ends up being
this energy and also for what it's worth. I'm not
the best singer in the world, but I have a
tone of voice that carries and it resonates with kids.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yep yep speaking And when you say you're performing in
front of kids, are you gonna go on a little
miniature tour?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I'm playing. I've got a show set up in November,
and I think I will do a hand of shows
between now and then. You know, I've been raising my
kids for the last fifteen years with like laser focus
on make enough money, take care of my kids. And
when I have a little extra time, I tinker around
with music. They're a little bit older, and actually I've
(06:16):
raised my own band. So now my son is in
my band and two of his friends. He plays in
this school of rock, and he's got two friends, a
really good female drummer and a really good guitarist. And
I think that you know, the three of us, and
then my daughter will sing with me. We're going to
go play some shows.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I love that. I love it bringing it all together
and then sharing that relationship because I remember when I
was at the elementary school in Billing's, Montana Ponderosa and
a family band came in there and I wanted to
be them. It had nothing to do with the partreach
family or anything like that. It was that family band
that I saw in the gymnasium.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It means a lot. I think that. I think everything
we do. I learned this as a teacher too. What
you do and how you be is equally or more
important than what you say in the class what you're teaching.
And I think being positive with young people making music,
having a good time, showing kids that you know we
can create community sends a big message.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Please do not move. There's more with Basho and Friends
coming up next. The name of the album A Way
to Be. We're back with Bashilo and Friends. You were
just talking about community, and I really love the way
that you promote that because you really do need to
show up for a friend.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I know, well it sounds like you listen. First of all,
thanks for taking the time to listen through it, because
it's it means a lot to me, you know, when
people take the time. I think that nowadays people are
scroll scroll, scroll next thing, next, open, medium, hit, and
this album was sort of an antidote to that, Like
in my dream of dreams is I released this on
cassette with a like a signature Walkman so that kids
(07:55):
don't even have to touch a screen to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh ce see you're always planning ahead like that. That's
the teacher and you, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It really is. It's like, I mean, the album's bigger
than a set of songs that I wrote to be
on Spotify. You know. It's I want to shift mindsets
and hearts, and I think getting people off devices, slowing
things down, getting people in nature to having kids do
(08:23):
that and and if you do it through the means,
like all of a sudden, it's a cassette. There's no
way to get distracted by anything by Instagram on your
cassette player, and so we're guiding the path for kids
and families like to like be different, do things differently.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Are you seeing anything on social media in the way
that my wife and I are constantly watching, you know,
schools with their videos on Facebook and stuff, And I
can just see this material and your material coming up
on Facebook as a reels.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean I think it does. They're starting to
pick up on that sort of social space. I could
be a lot better at doing the social media game.
I find it very distracting and is more takes more
away than it offers. But I'm you know, making my
my amends with that, and it's about getting the content
(09:16):
out there for me. If I can think of it
as a distribution platform rather than anything else, then I'm
good with it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You are the perfect artist to play at what's called
Imagine on here in Charlotte, where man they bring in
these musicians singing to the kids and to see those
little ones just jumping up and down and singing right along.
Oh my god. I just I hope that they reach
out to you somehow, some way.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When does that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, imagine ON is all the time. It's seven days
a week. It's it is. It is a place created
just for kids and young adults and and so, and
it's just it's just amazing. It's its library. It is
what it is. And every one of the librarians in
there are a kid themselves. In other words, they are
so playful. They're just vibrant with theenergy and things and
so and so in sitting here looking at you, I'm going,
(09:56):
wait a second, you could be an employee and imagine On.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, it sounds fun. I mean anything that gets me
in front of groups of kids having a good time,
I think is always a fun play.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah. So now what do you do? You slip away
into the studio at the house, and then you take
your idea to another studio.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I do, Yeah, I mean I actually have a little
a little office space on downtown Boulder, Colorado, on Pearl Street,
and so I'll record scratch tracks here and in garage
brand or logic, you know, sketch them out, build the
structure for the song, send them back and forth to
my producer who's in Grass Valley, California, and then once
we've got a critical mass, you know, five eight, ten
(10:34):
songs where we're like, hey, these are there, then I'll
fly out. We'll lay down lyrics, we'll refine, we'll do
some backup stuff, and they always evolved because we're silly
together and things come out.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So did you wake up this morning stretching your arms?
You could be happy, diche.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I appreciate that I did wake up. I woke up
in my son's bed because he wanted to sleep in
our bed because he's going anxious last night. You know,
the life of a parent. I think that's it too.
It's all in the music. It's like I'm living it
every day. This is not made up stuff. This is
personal experience.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So one of my essential jobs is I work at
a grocery store because I love being with people and
I just wanted to be with real people. In radio,
we envision people at the grocery store. They're right there.
And so I'm seeing a lot of fathers taking their
children to a grocery store and they're teaching them the
ATM card. They're teaching them how to shop and how
to put you bag things and stuff like that. I
would love to hear a song from you on something
(11:33):
that deals with that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh that's interesting. And when you say deals with that
is it? Are you speaking about financial literacy or just
navigating places to shop?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think you could go in several different levels with that.
I mean because I mean especially with financial because these kids,
they know their numbers. And here's the thing that really
gets me is that the mother goes, what's our home
phone number? She makes them say it out loud because
when people ask me for a number, oh, let me
go look for it. And then you sit there and
you score through the names totally.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, right, like how do yeah? Tips and tricks for
getting through life, you know, like things that you could
play in the grocery store with your kids or that
would get them to remember the phone. No, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You like that. There's a lot of scavenger hunts that
happened in that store too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Where can people go to find out more about you?
Because I really want them to fall in love with
your sound?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh you're the sweetest, Yeah, I mean Baschuwinfriends dot Com
is my website. It has the cool thing is I
just updated it so the videos page is a searchable
index of all the videos I've ever created. So if
you want to find a video in Chinese for the colors,
you get filtered by Chinese colors. If you want to
find a Spanish song that teaches the days of the week,
(12:48):
you find a Spanish days of the week song. Songs
about kindness or math or science, so that's really cool.
There's a page just for the new album A Way
to Be, which has some press releases. There's where to
stream the album. That's probably the best that or YouTube,
I mean YouTube's always popping off, and then all the
streaming services have the music or smart speakers.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Wow, dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man, I would be delighted. This has been real treat.
I mean, I appreciate the perspective that you take on
it and obviously the heart that you have in music.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate your
Morning, Hey, good morning. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm doing great? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with you.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I appreciate you making the time, dude.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What you're doing with music I wish I would have
had when I was a kid, because we had London
bridges falling down and Mary had a little land and
things like that. I mean, you put so much life
and energy and positive, positive thoughts into everything that you're
putting together.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh man, that's that means a lot. I really appreciated it.
It's a heartfelt experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'll tell you one thing that really caught my attention
having the scene with the child and the father that
is so important in this day. Dude, when I saw that,
I'm going, yes, that because I didn't have that as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah right, me neither.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And so I mean doing the videos and things like that,
I mean you you must really go into real careful
thoughts seeing what can we do that's going to be
a visual that's going to go with our song.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, absolutely, it's a I mean I come from a
background as a kindergarten bilingual kindergarten teacher and so a
lot of my thinking, and I was in a dual
immersion class, so half the time I was working with
kids that didn't actually speak the language that I was
teaching in. That's what immersion is. It's just like full
in Spanish. So you have to use body language, visuals, music,
(01:17):
anything that gets them to hook into what is the
concept and then attach that concept to some kind of language.
But based on the visual representation.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let's break down the song A Way to Be. I mean,
what went on inside your heart for you to say, yeap,
this is the way we're going to go with this song.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, man, it's really interesting. A Way to Be. The
album originally started as a more like pedagogical album. It
was going to be twenty things that your kids should
know before they finished kindergarten. The days of the week,
the months of the year, the letters, you know, how
to stand in line, those kinds of things, because I
thought it would be a very borderline viral album, the
(01:57):
kind of album that you know, every parent would want
theirs to know this stuff before they finished kindergarten. Over time,
it just sort of became twenty global lessons about being
a good person. And it came really because I've been
doing a lot of the songs with my kids, and
I thought, Okay, it's one thing to teach kids and
their parents about, you know, the days of the week
(02:20):
in a fun, catchy way. It's another thing to have
a song about how to be kind. And one thing
that I've been successful with is like earwormsy and once
you have an earworm attached to a good message, whether
that be a learning message for cognitive ability or a
learning message on how to be a good kid, people
are just singing it throughout the day. So that was
(02:41):
the evolution, and A way to be was like, it's
not the way to be. It's sort of my manifest though,
but I'm not trying to be prescriptive about it. It's
like I'm offering this up as a this is a
way you can be.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah. See, my wife is a retired kindergarten teacher, and
the thing that those digital boards that were up in
the front, I mean she would use that and use
music like this to really promoted going forward because we
are that generation that is connected to digital and you
make it possible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's definitely the thought I
mean on this album. Once it sort of found its
way out over time. I thought, this is the preschool
Swiss Army Knight. You know, it's got songs, guided meditations,
It's got a wake up song, it's got to take
a nap song, it's got to go play outside, song
to be kind, song to eat a meal, song with friends,
your neighbors, your community, all those things that at that
(03:29):
age you're starting with yourself and then working concentric circles
outside to explore the world. This is like that in
twenty tracks in fifty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well man, you've also got to get dirty song. I'm
an adult and I love getting dirty. I mean, I
was you made me feel like a kid again. But
at the same time it's say, oh I got permission
to get dirty man.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah right, yeah, I mean. And the song like in
my mind it takes place literally on my kids elementary
We live down the block from the elementary school, and
like it's it's there. It's it's those swing said, it's
that sprinklers that go off that the kids can't wait
to run in. It's it's that experience. And it's true.
I don't like, I'm not I don't ascribe to you know,
(04:10):
wear your nice clothes every single day, and don't you
know always color within the lines? Is that that's my philosophy. Loko,
lets your kids get through that's part of being a kid.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Part of the message that's in here. Using the harmonies
that you do. Are you not fine tuning what harmony
is even for a young mind, Because when people speak
out of tune, I think that's that right there, puts
them in a place where people go, I don't really
like that person. Why, I don't know, I just don't Well,
I think they speak out of tune. And when when
you listen to your music, it is so in tune,
and I think it trains a mind.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
M tell me more. I want to hear more of
what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, being a radio personality, you know, we have to
be in control of our pitch, volume and tone. So
when I hear people they in their sentences like this,
you know, and they do that, I'm okay, you're just okay,
You're not better than okay? Today? Can we get we?
Can I get a good or maybe a fantastic And
all of a sudden, so you listen to the vocal
tones and then and then when they say okay, I'm fantastic,
Oh oh, my god, Now you're in tune.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Wow. Yeah, I mean there's a that was conscious practice
and a lot of the producers that I work with,
John Alavazakis, he's out of Grass Valley, California, and he's
so great. He's like a child in an adult's body,
and he pulled a lot of that out. He saw
in me, the liveliness, and every time we do a
(05:26):
take together in the studio, he's like, but make it bigger.
And so now I'm always envisioning like groups of kids,
my own kids, like a concert that I'm doing in
front of preschool kids, and so it ends up being
this energy and also for what it's worth. I'm not
the best singer in the world, but I have a
tone of voice that carries and it resonates with kids.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yep yep speaking And when you say you're performing in
front of kids, are you gonna go on a little
miniature tour?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I'm playing. I've got a show set up in November,
and I think I will do a hand of shows
between now and then. You know, I've been raising my
kids for the last fifteen years with like laser focus
on make enough money, take care of my kids. And
when I have a little extra time, I tinker around
with music. They're a little bit older, and actually I've
(06:16):
raised my own band. So now my son is in
my band and two of his friends. He plays in
this school of rock, and he's got two friends, a
really good female drummer and a really good guitarist. And
I think that you know, the three of us, and
then my daughter will sing with me. We're going to
go play some shows.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I love that. I love it bringing it all together
and then sharing that relationship because I remember when I
was at the elementary school in Billing's, Montana Ponderosa and
a family band came in there and I wanted to
be them. It had nothing to do with the partreach
family or anything like that. It was that family band
that I saw in the gymnasium.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It means a lot. I think that. I think everything
we do. I learned this as a teacher too. What
you do and how you be is equally or more
important than what you say in the class what you're teaching.
And I think being positive with young people making music,
having a good time, showing kids that you know we
can create community sends a big message.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Please do not move. There's more with Basho and Friends
coming up next. The name of the album A Way
to Be. We're back with Bashilo and Friends. You were
just talking about community, and I really love the way
that you promote that because you really do need to
show up for a friend.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I know, well it sounds like you listen. First of all,
thanks for taking the time to listen through it, because
it's it means a lot to me, you know, when
people take the time. I think that nowadays people are
scroll scroll, scroll next thing, next, open, medium, hit, and
this album was sort of an antidote to that, Like
in my dream of dreams is I released this on
cassette with a like a signature Walkman so that kids
(07:55):
don't even have to touch a screen to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh ce see you're always planning ahead like that. That's
the teacher and you, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It really is. It's like, I mean, the album's bigger
than a set of songs that I wrote to be
on Spotify. You know. It's I want to shift mindsets
and hearts, and I think getting people off devices, slowing
things down, getting people in nature to having kids do
(08:23):
that and and if you do it through the means,
like all of a sudden, it's a cassette. There's no
way to get distracted by anything by Instagram on your
cassette player, and so we're guiding the path for kids
and families like to like be different, do things differently.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Are you seeing anything on social media in the way
that my wife and I are constantly watching, you know,
schools with their videos on Facebook and stuff, And I
can just see this material and your material coming up
on Facebook as a reels.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean I think it does. They're starting to
pick up on that sort of social space. I could
be a lot better at doing the social media game.
I find it very distracting and is more takes more
away than it offers. But I'm you know, making my
my amends with that, and it's about getting the content
(09:16):
out there for me. If I can think of it
as a distribution platform rather than anything else, then I'm
good with it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You are the perfect artist to play at what's called
Imagine on here in Charlotte, where man they bring in
these musicians singing to the kids and to see those
little ones just jumping up and down and singing right along.
Oh my god. I just I hope that they reach
out to you somehow, some way.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When does that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, imagine ON is all the time. It's seven days
a week. It's it is. It is a place created
just for kids and young adults and and so, and
it's just it's just amazing. It's its library. It is
what it is. And every one of the librarians in
there are a kid themselves. In other words, they are
so playful. They're just vibrant with theenergy and things and
so and so in sitting here looking at you, I'm going,
(09:56):
wait a second, you could be an employee and imagine On.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, it sounds fun. I mean anything that gets me
in front of groups of kids having a good time,
I think is always a fun play.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah. So now what do you do? You slip away
into the studio at the house, and then you take
your idea to another studio.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I do, Yeah, I mean I actually have a little
a little office space on downtown Boulder, Colorado, on Pearl Street,
and so I'll record scratch tracks here and in garage
brand or logic, you know, sketch them out, build the
structure for the song, send them back and forth to
my producer who's in Grass Valley, California, and then once
we've got a critical mass, you know, five eight, ten
(10:34):
songs where we're like, hey, these are there, then I'll
fly out. We'll lay down lyrics, we'll refine, we'll do
some backup stuff, and they always evolved because we're silly
together and things come out.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So did you wake up this morning stretching your arms?
You could be happy, diche.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I appreciate that I did wake up. I woke up
in my son's bed because he wanted to sleep in
our bed because he's going anxious last night. You know,
the life of a parent. I think that's it too.
It's all in the music. It's like I'm living it
every day. This is not made up stuff. This is
personal experience.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So one of my essential jobs is I work at
a grocery store because I love being with people and
I just wanted to be with real people. In radio,
we envision people at the grocery store. They're right there.
And so I'm seeing a lot of fathers taking their
children to a grocery store and they're teaching them the
ATM card. They're teaching them how to shop and how
to put you bag things and stuff like that. I
would love to hear a song from you on something
(11:33):
that deals with that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh that's interesting. And when you say deals with that
is it? Are you speaking about financial literacy or just
navigating places to shop?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think you could go in several different levels with that.
I mean because I mean especially with financial because these kids,
they know their numbers. And here's the thing that really
gets me is that the mother goes, what's our home
phone number? She makes them say it out loud because
when people ask me for a number, oh, let me
go look for it. And then you sit there and
you score through the names totally.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, right, like how do yeah? Tips and tricks for
getting through life, you know, like things that you could
play in the grocery store with your kids or that
would get them to remember the phone. No, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You like that. There's a lot of scavenger hunts that
happened in that store too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Where can people go to find out more about you?
Because I really want them to fall in love with
your sound?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh you're the sweetest, Yeah, I mean Baschuwinfriends dot Com
is my website. It has the cool thing is I
just updated it so the videos page is a searchable
index of all the videos I've ever created. So if
you want to find a video in Chinese for the colors,
you get filtered by Chinese colors. If you want to
find a Spanish song that teaches the days of the week,
(12:48):
you find a Spanish days of the week song. Songs
about kindness or math or science, so that's really cool.
There's a page just for the new album A Way
to Be, which has some press releases. There's where to
stream the album. That's probably the best that or YouTube,
I mean YouTube's always popping off, and then all the
streaming services have the music or smart speakers.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Wow, dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man, I would be delighted. This has been real treat.
I mean, I appreciate the perspective that you take on
it and obviously the heart that you have in music.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate your
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