Ideas you can feel.
Songs for a world gone bananas. This is us in sonderland.
What is Bananasutra
It's not a bible. It's not a gospel. It's not a book. It's not an album. It's not a musical. It's a magic world of wonders to wander in. It's a warm, honest conversation, and sometimes just a silly joke. It's a dance, it's a cry, it's a laugh. It's what a friend would want to tell a friend, or maybe a parent to a kid. It's not just songs. It's important questions, and clear intentions. It's true stories that matter. It's ideas you can feel.
Why music? Because I agree with Frank Zappa: music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
So what does the name actually mean?
Probably not what you think. “Banana” is slang for crazy, chaos, and the emoji speaks for itself in a world run mostly by men whose logic starts south of the belt. “Sutra” means teaching, thread, story. Put them together: stories that matter, in a world gone bananas.
BANANASUTRA is a living collection of songs organized by meaning, not genre. Every song has a sutra (a guiding question), a topic, sometimes a muse, sometimes a character, and a short paragraph on why it exists. Meaning-first: not sorted by algorithm or mood, but by the question each song is trying to ask.
I invented the sutras to help me remember what matters. The corporate algorithm wants us numb. Empathy gets called naive. Lying is strategy. The seven sutras are my compass, seven north stars I can defend and return to. They aren't taxonomy. They're a tool for staying sane.
Music is the most universal language. Creativity is intelligence having fun (thanks, maybe-Einstein). Songs with real meaning can help people get and stay more connected, more aware, more brave, in the deadly jungle of corporate nonsense ruled by apes gone wrong.
Sutras at a glance
Who's behind it
One person. Philosophy and math background (the combo of curiosity and rigor that makes you question everything, then prove it). I write the lyrics, prompt the music, clone my own voice for the dubs, make the cover art and videos, and built this app. 400+ songs, 2,000+ tracks, in 2 years. Not bragging, just clarifying: this whole thing is homemade, end to end.
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- Lyrics
- 100% human-written. Every word is mine. The stories, the wordplay, the questions, the opinions, the tenderness. All of it.
- Music
- Produced with Suno, an AI music tool. I write detailed prompts: genre, mood, instrumentation, structure, tempo. Think of it like directing a session musician who never gets tired. Sometimes it takes 20+ generations to get a track right. The AI does not write lyrics or decide what a song is about. Ever.
- Voice
- French-American voiceover dub, cloned from my own voice for consistency across the catalog.
- Cover art & videos
- Made by me using a mix of AI image tools, video editors, and imagination.
- This app
- React + TypeScript (Vite, React Router), Airtable as CMS, Python scripts for data processing. Built with Cursor and Claude. Embeds from SoundCloud and YouTube. Catalog numbers, filters, and embeds reflect a dated export, not a live mirror. The footer shows the snapshot date.
The ideas are human. The tools are whatever gets the job done. If that offends purists on either side, well... it's bananas.