As we greet the winter solstice and the light of a new year begins to shine, the mind recalls all that has happened this year. Birthdays, marriages, and funerals. All the ups and downs of the year form a horizon line of data and experience that will form the basis of the impending layer of change.

Neuron Dreamtime is inseparable and nonexempt from these changes of ebb and flow.

We, as individuals, are still pouring our hearts into our crafts and our lives. We are diligently following our own paths while sharing our experiences and the things we’ve learned. As much as I wanted to have the new album ready for a December 21st release date it’s obvious that this won’t happen and it’s for the best as there is a lot of polishing to do. We’ve pretty much got the track-list down with some ordering still needed. The tracks themselves are well into their final mixes with only a few songs needing vocals recorded and then they’ll go through a tumble in the mastering mechanism. After that it’s off to duplication, packaging, then the full-blown release.

As mentioned here a few months ago we’ve also been eyeballing the options and obstacles of bring Neuron Dreamtime to the realm of Live performance. We’re exploring a MIDI controller and how to interface it with our creations in a such a way that they have a uniqueness from their studio counterparts and so they can be tweaked on the fly with a bit of ease.

All of this, the new album and the live incarnation,  should come to a head near the second quarter of 2013.

Until we have more to share… watch this.

-LRM

Available now through DeviantART.com are art prints of work by Lewis. Everything from puzzles, mouse pads, and canvas prints. Only a handful of images or printable at the moment but more will be available with time.

Print Shop

Also, recently uploaded to SoundCloud, a remix of Chris Vrenna’s Tweaker track titled “Fine”. It was created for a remix contest but due to a scheduling error the deadline was missed. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be heard!

“Fine’ by Tweaker (ND’s Deadline Mix)


Things have settled down considerably in the land of the new album, only tiny steps are being taken but we’re still approaching. The ebb phase has arrived as it always seems to after a flow and the projects that were once on the front burner are switched with projects on the back burner, therefore there is never a dull moment and projects have their incubation periods. In the outer-land of music unrelated to the new album there are a couple theme songs in the works for a set of comical webisodes (unrelated to each other) and the Tweaker remix is also manifesting. A relapse into visual art has also occurred and ideas for a new ambient project are being bounced around the gray matter. Also, in wake of the V-Amp death, the scouting for new equipment is also in phase.

Here are the teaser trailers from one of the upcoming webisodes that are featuring clips of the song “Dragon” and a previously unreleased track, “Walk The Talk”. For the gamers out there here is the upcoming YouTube show, TrayPlays.


Free download of “Walk The Talk” MP3

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“Since before the beginning of ND this machine has been with me. I’ve developed my style with of it and my love for sound. It had been teetering on the brink for sometime now. Took it out of storage and it sang a final screeching swan song a few days ago, a horrid bout of feedback that could wake the dead. Now it sits, talking to itself in a garbled electronic language only Tesla could understand. It will be remembered as it was, the backbone of sound in IAMOM and instrumental component in the following 3 full length albums and 2 EPs and recycled as it is, a broken lunatic of a noise beacon that lays await for a chance to be plugged to an amp to spread the schizophrenic word of a ghost in the machine. RIP V-Amp.” ~Lew

In other news:

-Tweaker (Chris Vrenna) is having a remix contest of the new single “Fine”, hosted through AcidPlanet.  We are taking some time to participate and remix. More on that to come.
-Lyrical work still in progress for the new album.