K-Wal’s third album, Running After The Sun, is now his first album available on streaming services! Check it out on your favorite apps here.
For immediate release: March 13, 2023
Running After The Sun has been uploaded to streaming services. The links to listen will be posted on Madaket Media and K-Wal’s social media when the music is available.
'Running After The Sun' releases Sep. 9, new single out now
Madaket Media is extremely excited and proud to announce that it will release Ayden “K-Wal” Kowalski’s third album, Running After The Sun, on September 9, 2022. A new chapter from its story, “Ketamine,” is available now on YouTube and SoundCloud. The artwork is created by Novo (Instagram: @peter_novinski) and all music is composed, performed, produced, and mixed by K-Wal.
Tracklist:
Running After The Sun
In Pursuit
Ketamine
Greying
Dancers in the Dark
Stockholm
Mixtape Days
Prism
Make it to L.A.
Hear K-Wal on YouTube and SoundCloud by checking out the links below:
K-Wal's lead single debuts Wednesday, Aug. 17
Madaket Media is excited to announce the release of the lead single for K-Wal’s Running After The Sun, the track “In Pursuit,” next Wednesday at 7:00 P.M. CST. The song will debut on YouTube via a preproduced live broadcast, so everyone can experience the music together. After this, “In Pursuit” will also be available on SoundCloud through K-Wal’s account. Links to the YouTube premiere and the song’s SoundCloud page will be posted here and on K-Wal’s Instagram closer to the release date.
K-Wal had the following to say on the matter: “I’m back.”
K-Wal's third album releases this fall
Madaket Media will release K-Wal’s third album, Running After The Sun, this coming fall. We look forward to sharing more information about this project soon.
The announcement photo is on K-Wal’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5eUkULdCy/
Madaket
by Ayden Kowalski
And now the scenes are pieces, littered across the shoreline
As the ocean ruminates and grinds them down to dust
I put on dramas in my dreamscape here, our unlived story
The fantasies of a boy enamored with a storm
Because it all brought him down to humanity
And I’ll find somewhere else to swim, love,
Another glitter-banded gauntlet with the roiling waves I crave
Or I’ll finally listen to the cooler heads and settle on stale and sunny shores
But every once in a while I’ll look out at the moonlit sea and cry,
Because even though I’m nothing to you I am always yours
Welcome to Madaket Media!
Hello, kind visitor, and welcome to the official website of Madaket Media! We are an independent arts and entertainment group created by Ayden “K-Wal” Kowalski. Our goal at Madaket Media is to make people feel, and we hope that as you engage with our works, we are able to lead you through a great spectrum of human experience and inspire you to connect with yourself. Of course, we want you to have some fun along that journey, too! We hope you enjoy all we have to offer you, and we hope that you stay in touch with us, as we’ll continue to keep creating for you!
The Pen
by Ayden Kowalski
When I pick you up off your smooth, chestnut-colored bed,
And grasp you within my two fingers,
Alternating between holding you up to my lips
And plunging you into the ocean,
When I order you to dive into that uncharted infinity below,
Force you to run for me within that great white snowfield,
When I make you trace upon the seabed or frozen grasses
My exact commandments so that the very earth may know my mind,
Then I feel like I am truly a son of God.
I feel as if it were I who lay upon my back tracing the divine countenance upon the ceiling,
As if it were I who was imbued with the spark from the Creator to shine like Him,
To shimmer like Her, to reveal Her to the entire world,
To proclaim to the universe what Her, what His chosen people can accomplish.
I think then that She may choose me as an ambassador for Her people,
That I should set off in a golden chariot from this Canaan to sweep the entire arm of Sagittarius,
That I should dance among the stars in strange and foreign lands,
Telling women made of light of the beauties beneath our oceans and the fire signs of God in our skies,
Playing pieces of Mozart and reciting in somewhat slippery English some words of Kanye West.
Yes, I feel, with this little vial of ink, that I am transcendent,
That I belong not on this earth but on the spheres above,
On the skies beyond ours where the clouds turn to faraway candles and the blues fade to black,
Yes, there, that is where I shall live,
Beyond these mortal coils and outrages that encircle me now,
Beyond the pains of life, the pains of leaving it, of having it slip out of your hands like a serpent
And having to wrestle it to the ground in some vain attempt to control it for just a little while longer.
Like a bluebird I will be free, like a comet I shall streak across eternity, like a sailboat I shall ride
Her waves until She calls me back to my shore, where the Fishermen wait.
I let go of you for an instant,
Just an instant,
And then I am no longer a Michelangelo,
But a man, a boy, sitting in a lonely room,
Watching girls come and go
Whom I am scared to talk to.
I leave my body, seeing my vision fade before me;
I try to run and catch it, but just as I see my hand extend,
Just as I see my fingers stretch out to reach that fleeing flash of light,
It vanishes, and I am left alone.