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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

“As the gates open to a roundabout encircling a great fountain, strange songs can be heard from an indiscernible location. The skeletal forms of the architecture appear bare but are interestingly not. The deeper you look into it you begin to recognize fractal forms engaged in a subtle tachykinesic movement. Every surface appears to be alive.”

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When creating art, even with an established plan, I lose myself in the possibilities and struggle with self doubt. When I look at a blank canvas I see the infinite. Miraculously, once an idea is set upon, infinity splinters into a new infinity. The painting, or the song, or the story can go in any direction. But as time is traveled and space is identified, what becomes is a cross section of many infinities, captured or frozen in time. That’s the fun part and what I revel in. And where I get lost. But I eventually find my way back. Decisions are made. Paint is brushed, notes are played and words are written.

“Finis coronat opus.”


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.