Help Fund My Debut Album - "Old CD"

I've made a commitment - 2025 will be the year that I record my first album and establish myself as an independent musician. To do this, I need your help!

TLDR: I’ve written an album starting back in 2022 called, “Old CD”, exploring the feeling of being like an Old CD - skipping, obsolete, repeating old stories that you just can’t seem to shake. The album explores general feelings of unrest, unease, and illness in my own life - it tells a tale of not being able to escape your own darkness, and about being unwillingly thrust into the underworld to witness and experience the things that haunt you and call from the corners of your vision, begging to be heard. All of the songs are written, and the songs want to be recorded - I just need help funding them! I’ll be recording with a friend Austin Vogel at Blue Light Digital Sound, so your money will help support his craft and make this album a reality. Read on to learn more!

Chris Bunn

Old CD is an original album which I began writing back in 2022. It began with the song, "Old CD", which I wrote while living in South Jersey and struggling to wrap my head around being diagnosed with OCD. The song explores the idea of feeling like an old CD, like you’re skipping and experiencing the same old limiting stories and sorrows over and over again. It’s about the feeling that no matter how hard you try, some part of you is clinging to the way that you used to be, ways that once served you but now only serve to stifle your growth. And all the while you’ve become so entrenched in this way that you have no idea how to get out. This theme would come to encompass many of the songs I wrote in the following years.

This album came about completely naturally, with no real planning on my part. I was just going through time, writing songs when one day recently I realized that a number of them fit together perfectly. They were a complete picture of the way I’d been - feeling emotionally disconnected from the world around me, struggling to find direction in a world with so many distractions, trying and failing to live a life in alignment with my highest purpose, and battling inner forces that would rather see me lying in the dirt than loving, dreaming, and being happy. At times in the past few years, I’ve felt so disconnected from my true self that I had no idea how to make decisions in alignment with what I actually want. These songs were a way for me to name that phenomenon and figure out - who am I, and what do I really want?

Beyond all of this, Old CD is a declaration of hope. It’s about the lived fact that the Earth does not want to see me fail. It’s a call of gratitude to all of the helpers who have watched over me and saved me in my darkest moments - the Great Blue Heron, the Red Tailed Hawk, the Asters and the Goldenrod, the Cherry Tree, the Turtle crossing the road. These messengers would not let me die, would not let me settle into brokenheartedness, would not let me be content in failure or conformity. It’s time to burn the old stories that no longer serve us and weave new ones - stories that fit the contours of who we are in this moment, not the echoes of the past. Join me in this journey, for there is much work to be done!

These songs are good. I’m not just saying that because I wrote them - I’ve been working on my songwriting for over ten years now, and I’m incredibly proud of this work. It is the most honest music I’ve ever written - truly, I’m not trying to tell anyone anything. These songs are letters to myself, a product of digging deep and witnessing what is there. They have come to me in dreams, flashes of inspiration, and simply on normal days where the desire to write is there. They are a breath from my unconscious mind - they say “here is the mythology of who you’ve been.” They seek not to be understood, but to be felt, experienced, examined. These past few years haven't been easy for me, but dark times have yielded work that is deeper than anything I've ever written. Nearly all the songs are finished, and all that’s left to do is edit, practice, and record. Truly, I don’t care if anyone likes them or not. But I know that they need to be shared, and they need to be shared now.

(Okay, maybe I care a little bit.)

I'm going to be recording with my good friend Austin Vogel at Blue Light Digital Sound. So truly, this money will be mostly supporting him and his craft. Austin and I have known each other for many years, and I deeply appreciate his approach to both music and the recording process. He brings a sense of fun and light-heartedness to the recording process, which keeps in balance my deep artistic brooding (lol).

Thank you so much for reading to the end, and if you have any questions, please reach out to me. Much love! <3