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“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a potential album cover!” – Neuron.Dreamtime.Entertainment & Managment.Committee.Llc

There have been many moments like this one, right now. A moment framed by realizing how much time has passed since the last time I made a post on this site. This time it’s been 2 years. Back when the collaboration with my ol’ buddy Dave Miller dropped, Moth to Flame.

When writing these posts I try to strike a balance between three things: the music (or art), my mental state (journaling), and a general exercise in writing (poetry, prose, ponderings, iteration, etc). But sometimes, most of the time, I do not finish the writing in one sitting so I save it as a draft where it sits to collect a decimal of digital dust. Then one day, months later, I go back to read what I wrote, then promptly delete it. Rinse and repeat.

The first draft of this post in particular was in March (2026). Right now it is a week into the last week of August. In just a couple months weeks the leaves will start to change (news flash, they already are), Summer will wave goodbye and Autumn will give way to Winter. Rinse and repeat. But I digress. Or do I?

Committing to the bit, while listening to this latest version of the unreleased and still very much in-progress Neuron Dreamtime album I feel it’s closer than it’s ever been to being finished. In many ways it still carries the theme I had intended when it all started to coalesce under the weight of the creative process, albeit at this point in time it is much more personal. It’s really very important to me now and I cannot wait to share it with the world and finally stop listening to it myself. Rinse and repeat.

Apart from this seemingly Sisyphus-style of creative method (see: insanity), the work does continue, even when nothing is being done and I slide down the hill holding back the weight of all that makes me, Me, as I memeify and continue to change as I age. The feedback loop I put myself through at this stage of ‘putting an album together’ (see: insanity) is tedious and unrewarding at times but maybe, just maybe, it makes some sort of difference to the art. There are nights where, just before bed, I don the headphones and listen to the latest version of whatever mixes the album may consist. A playlist of works-in-progress that I try to let go of and just listen to as an observer and not as a progenitor. An experience that lingers on into my dreams where the melodies and rhythms plant themselves under a new light in my waking consciousness…

Then I start to hum new parts at breakfast, rearrange the track-list during coffee/poops and by evening… well, rinse and repeat.

This is the way it is because this is the way it is.

Rinse and repeat.
Ok, I’ll stop now.

‘Til next time

Much love
-L

Debut self-titled album coming July 22, 2024!

Hello again you lot. It has been, what? A year and a half since my last post here. Well what can I say, life has me busy and exhausted but it’s all good. The kid is growing and learning at an exponential rate. It’s incredible. Neuron Dreamtime music is at a standstill but it’s all good. Instead, I spent what free time I had during the last year recording music with a lifelong friend, David Miller. We learned to play guitar together, we’re still neighbors to this day and we are super excited for this project that we’ve titled ‘Moth To Flame’. It’s all good.


(Scroll to the bottom for a visualization video for the first track “Healing Winds“)
(Visit Bandcamp to preorder a pysical or digital copy)

It is a six track self-titled album with a runtime of 26 minutes. It all started in the spring of ’23 when David and I reconnected with our old past time of jamming acoustic guitars on the porch. Soon he picked up on using Audacity to record and Google Drive to share tracks. Then it was off to the races. And it was all good.

Once we had the songs we wanted I would then spend a few months mixing and mastering and driving myself insane to the best of my current ability. Let’s be honest, we are both very much aware that this album is not perfect, that was never the goal, we just did what we did with what we had in the allotted time we have as family men. The building blocks for some of the songs date back to our late teens. We must be finally mature enough in both mind and spirit to put something cohesive like this together. These songs will forever have a special place in my heart. The whole process was cathartic to say the least. It was all good.

Anyway, I’ve rambled on enough. I will be updating the site once ‘Moth To Flame’ releases by embedding the Bandcamp player into the “Collaborations” page.

Here is a visualization video for “Healing Winds”.

Thanks for stopping by and reading and listening and allowing us into your lives.
-LM

Synaptic Plasticity: The ability of synapses to strengthen or weaken over time, in response to increases or decreases in their activity.

It thrills me to have the domain back with projects underway after a lengthy hiatus. Today is Neuron Dreamtime’s official 10 year anniversary with the release of IAMOM back in 2007. Since then the number of manifestations has reached 150+ tracks in the form of full releases, EP’s, and singles, equating to over 9 and a half hours of music and music like noises.

Synapse: a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

Since MirrorMirror I’ve spent most of this hiatus removed from any/all music in-progress but about once or twice a year I have a sit down between two coils of copper and listen to whatever new music we’ve shelved into digital incubation as well as any amount of the back catalog to make notes and daydream. This is occasionally accompanied by a feeble attempt to write a witty blog or FB post that resembles an update trying to communicate, to an extent, some amount of insight into the madness we call our musical process and the current state of our journey. This is obviously one of those attempts.

“The Map Is Not The Territory” – coming soon…

However, during the past couple months I’ve been rekindling the hibernating files and notes toward a final destination. The new album entitled The Map Is Not The Territory is scheduled for a fall debut with the high likelihood of a small Kickstarter campaign for CD duplication leading up to release. With or without crowdfunding, it will be coming to the Bandcamp catalogue as well.

Come on in, the water is fine.

On a closing note, I found it poetic that the last post was drought themed as there was a drought both environmentally and metaphorically when it was posted. As of today this has been one of the nicest, rainiest spring/summer seasons of recent memory and creative endeavors seem destined to fructify.

-L

PROMOTIONAL CONTENT!

Head on over to Kickstarter and give these boys some love. They have always been very supportive of everything Dreamtime related. Support to them is support to me and you in the form of culture and art!

Click the pic to go to the Kick!

Disillusion Effect’s Kickstarter campaign at the time of writing this. (WordPress does not allow iframe embedding)

Here we go!

The first single from the upcoming album “Zero Cliff”. This track has been patiently built over the course of three years. We are finally approaching the final stages of building the album and felt it was time to share some content. Neuron Dreamtime takes time, it takes dreams, and it takes neurons, to build and furnish ideas into sonic and visual media.

It will reveal when ready.

Until then and beyond, enjoy.

It’s available to stream on both BandCamp and SoundCloud.

“The Moon and Trine”
Taken on the evening of August 21st, 2012

1) Contemplating which songs from the new album to turn into multi-tracks for remixing purposes.
2) The commissioned artistic interpretation for the first single has arrived.
3) Talks of live music gigs and the where’s and how’s.
4) Still engaging the lyrical writing process.
5) Day-jobs and school.
6) Perseverance .
7) Life.

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As a nexus for all things Neuron Dreamtime (links, videos, music, news, etc.) we are proud to publish this site.

There have been a couple attempts and ideas for a website prior to this but they all fell away due to changing times and tech. We have used WordPress to construct this site and we hope to upgrade and continue to expand the ND roots of creativity into its architecture.

Feel free to explore the site, download music, share and become inspired.

With much love and appreciation,
~Neuron Dreamtime