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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


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

“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.