Written, performed, and sung by Espen Skaar from Dreaming While Awake.
Get on the synth and grind again!
Do on the stage like every week!

Synth Line

Ibiza Spain

After returning from Europe I wrote and recorded this song from scratch. This is about my(our) childhood(s).  I mastered this full send so watch your ears!

Violet Garden

Magenta Basslines

Produced, written, and performed by Espen Skaar.

Get on your feet and Freak

Quick track I made this morning with Saki(cat-in-law).

Fight another day

Trying to get as much practice producing music as I possibly can, including laying down vocals. Practice makes perfect!

Come back soon

On both sides of the political spectrum people should be very upset with what is going on right now not just in America but in the world. With corrupt governments comes wars and division, fear-pushing, never unity. In the last 3 years the rich have gotten exponentially richer, and the poor WAY poorer. If you listen to the corporate media you have already lost the war to end division and hate. Their goal is to divide everyone in America so we cannot mount a proper resistance to the corruption - this means dividing people based on race and political belief - this is morally wrong. America could be a great country but we are divided - by guess who? Those at the top...
LYRICS:
I can be a freedom
You can be my valentine
In a world with so much dishonesty
It keeps me from being in line
For everything that is done to us
We must unite and fight the animus
Division and hate
Has no place in our society

American Dream

Division - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Dancer in my hand - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Something bolder

Banged this out my synths and voice.

Driving to the beach
Four to the floor
Comping synths
Gonna catch me some phish
On the road to Limantour (Limantour Beach, California)
The sun is shinning 
Where dreams touch the ground
There the phish abound
Where my thumb is grooving
Where the beats are stealing the moment

Stealing the moment

Dancer in my Hand - Collab with Kenna Rae

Low Rider - War Cover (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Lyrics: 
Saturday night rock and roll 
on the jelly train
gotta stay on top
so we can tame the game

on a remote trek
to something new
if anything goes wrong
call me
i'm the captain now

on the dance machine
so frickin meme with that jelly roll
freaking on the come up!
getin on that left foot!

Jelly roll

Great vocals from Kenna-Rae.
Hope you enjoy.

Urban fantasy - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

that little wyrm
she sings to me
helps me breath
and helps me think
gives me something to charge it up
1000 daimoku still not enough

Still not enough

Going on without you
On to the great beyond
Into the darkness
With full cloak on
Full speed full dress
Where we're going no one knows
Into the beyond
Where only the spirits go
I look back and I see the wind on my tail
So fast and with such vigor
Don't know of anything quicker
Out of this town
And into the beyond
Of tomorrowland
With my brothers and sisters
Into the beyond
Where the music don't stop
Where the party never ends
Where the engines are loud
And the dancers are fine

Into the beyond

Playing on the synth line, San Francisco, December 2248, with members of the DWA band on ice.
lyrics:
Get on your feet
Stay on it
Give me those chord changes
Give me that turn around
Synth Commander, take us to funky town
Just a little time
To bust a jelly groove
Is all I need
Just a little
Jelly Groove
Is all I need

Turn around

give me a solid
give me an escape
four the floor
give me the chords
lay on the beat
with that synth bloody creep
arpeggiated lines and jelly dreams

electronic battleship on the badboy blue
a private ride
just for me and you
riding straight on through
to the end of the line

never hungry 
its always jelly time

with those industrial synths
cooling with the

Battleship

Six abreast

Melkor

Barnyard Burner - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Another Year - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Fables

thanks for the good feedback, had some challenges with vocal panning on this

Crazy for you

Autumn in Berkeley - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Keep going

This is an experimental track, just wanted to see what you think.

Petaluma

Another experimental track, let me know what you think. I played this out live on my electric bass. God the vocals are aweful.

Modern Art

The Slab

Experimental song I made with my cat in law.

Just getting started

Sayulita

Let's Dance

Heroes

Work hard

Cyberbattle

Jazz Musician of over 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area - Performing on the line in many Jazz and Rock bands in the capacity of a Bass Player.  I now rock a mean synthesizer and drum machine and ghost write and produce with some of my own work.   Dreaming While Awake is a fresh fusion of multiple genres rolled into one - driven primarily by Jazz, Electronica, and Latin.  Beyond music our goal is unity against oppression and discrimination of all forms.  Music transcends it all, my life is completely dedicated to this.

Do not stop fighting and do not stop making music, music is life.

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