Auld Lang Syne, 2023

Let's celebrate the 2023 new year together with a bona fide genesis mint, also a tribute to The Memes by 6529 and the Open Metaverse.

It's my debut mint on Zora,
first open edition,
first edition, period (everything else has been 1/1s),
first time minting a live performance,
first time playing a concert in the Open Metaverse,
first time releasing music under cc0,
and my gift to you.

It's also the beginning of an adventure  with lots of exciting music, stories, and flights of imagination to come.

Artwork by The Memes by 6529 SZN1 artists, including 6529er, apocalypticform, Cyber Humanoid, Haru Komoda, spydenator, Ayla El-Moussa, ALIENQUEEN, OSF, NeonGlitch86, Dolce Paganne, SeerLight, Kaejunni, Kristy Glas, Alpha Centauri Kid, Daria Klepikova, Tommy Wilson, Tony Sellen, TyLekki, Drift, wetpotatobrain, ROBNESS, Arsonic, Alejandro Cartagena, Helena Sarin, XCOPY, Jord Hammond, Rakesh Pulapa, Natalie Shau, Reuben Wu, Priyanka Patel, Rik Oostenbroek, Simone Monte, Vivienne Tam, Hugo Faz, Matt Scobel, and punk6529.

"Auld Lang Syne" is a traditional Scottish folk song, pondering whether old times should be forgotten. It was set to its current text throughout the 1700s, its current music in 1799 - and still remains a quintessential ballad to commemorate each solar New Year crossing. This version was performed and recorded on January 1, 2023 12:01am Eastern Standard Time, live from Berlin, Germany and broadcast through the Open Metaverse.

Arrangement, Performance, Production, Mixing, Mastering, and Video Production by Eric Pan, a.k.a. pandelic