MAN

“Only thing I ask is: can you be a star”

— Man
@man_bonijaymusic
MAN

Everything here was made in a small room with the door closed. There's no preview and no sample — you either want to hear it or you don't. You pay once and it plays once, the way a record used to feel when you only had the one, and you had to mean it.

The songs
01
Past
2:38 · $5
MAN
Where these were made
A back room, mostly after midnight, with a blanket over the window.
What I record on
One microphone I've had for years and refuse to replace.
The first song I ever loved
Something my mother played on a Sunday. I still can't hear it straight.
What I'm chasing
The take where I forget anyone's listening.
If you only hear one
Start with the first. It's the one I'd play you in person.
What I want back
That you sat still for it. That's the entire ask.
Say something to me

There's a lot I haven't put on this page. Ask and I'll tell you — about a song, about how it got made, about anything you've heard in it. Ask me something nobody asks. Ask for a voice memo. Or don't ask anything at all, and just tell me how you're doing — I'd rather know that than nothing. It comes straight to me, and nobody else ever reads it.

Where I'll answer you

Leave your handle below and I'll reply there. Instagram is preferred — it's the one I actually open. Any other platform works too, just tell me which.

@man_bonijaymusic

Goes only to me. Never posted, never shared, never sold.

Thanks for listening on purpose.