The Bandcamp fee waiver promotion was astonishingly successful. He made several hundred dollars-enough to pay for Cthulhu's final round of antibiotics. Dessauvage put out a collection of 13 unreleased and compilation tracks for the occasion the album serves as a eerily suitable soundtrack for a lonely apocalypse of staring into the computer screen and feeling it also staring into you. On the day of the Bandcamp promotion, Dessauvage saw a substantial spike in sales as fans rushed to support artists directly.
The online music platform suspended its fees on March 20 in order to help artists during the pandemic. There was one bright spot for Dessauvage, though: a substantial boost from Bandcamp. The story of opportunities closing and unexpected expenses mounting is a chillingly familiar one for many people over the last couple of months. Dessauvage tells the Recording Academy that he was faced with "a hefty set of bills, in total a very solid four-figure sum which promptly annihilated all our savings." That's especially true since his beloved cat, Cthulhu, suffered acute kidney failure right before the lockdown. His day job in retail laid him off as well, and while he still gets 70% of his salary through government unemployment, making ends meet has been rough.
He's lost tour dates in Amsterdam and London. Belgium has been in lockdown for two months and summer festivals have all been canceled. Zer0 れい, has been struggling since the coronavirus pandemic began. Like most musicians, Belgian ambient synthscape vaporwave artist Sebastian Dessauvage, a.k.a.
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