My city was hot as hell during Covid-19, n*ggas were shooting left and right, outside weren't safe for nobody, even lost a few people to this shit. I was getting high in the studio and recording to escape this reality.

Pluto

The year was 2020 and I think it may be needless to say that the world as we knew it had been put on hold. We couldn’t go out because we were picking up our food outside of restaurants wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart to enter the grocery store, and we certainly weren’t going to concerts or having people over to our houses to hang out, or in my case, record music.

I used this downtime to go through old unfinished tracks and projects that lived on my hard drives that were never properly finished. In that collection, I found tracks from Dreams Lead West from 2013. We recorded all of these songs while I still lived in Sidney, NE, but the band broke up before we could finish them.

Fortunately, the only thing that was really missing were the drums and vocals. This seemed like a pretty simple fix, considering I had a full drum kit, mic’d and ready to go in my basement. As a band, we had discussed releasing our songs as instrumental anyway, so it was  and easy dilema to settler. I mic’d up the drums and laid down the drum tracks.

Recording, mixing, and mastering is a pretty solid way to spend your time isolated from the outside world during a global pandemic. This album is a testament to that time. “Theta” by Dreams Lead West is an instrumental story told through the mind of a traveler navigating this challenging chapter of life.

The artwork displays that journey, beginning in the neck of the person in the image and moving through each track as outlined by each “chamber” of the mind.

“Never Knew” is the final track from the album. 

We thank George McMillian for this amazing artwork, check him out here
https://www.georgemcmillian.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

Buy Album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/theta/1535279351

Follow Dreams Lead West
https://www.facebook.com/dreamsleadwest

Theta

Never Knew

Never Knew by Dreams Lead West (2020)

The year was 2020 and I think it may be needless to say that the world as we knew it had been put on hold. We couldn’t go out because we were picking up our food outside of restaurants wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart to enter the grocery store, and we certainly weren’t going to concerts or having people over to our houses to hang out, or in my case, record music.

I used this downtime to go through old unfinished tracks and projects that lived on my hard drives that were never properly finished. In that collection, I found tracks from Dreams Lead West from 2013. We recorded all of these songs while I still lived in Sidney, NE, but the band broke up before we could finish them.

Fortunately, the only thing that was really missing were the drums and vocals. This seemed like a pretty simple fix, considering I had a full drum kit, mic’d and ready to go in my basement. As a band, we had discussed releasing our songs as instrumental anyway, so it was  and easy dilema to settler. I mic’d up the drums and laid down the drum tracks.

Recording, mixing, and mastering is a pretty solid way to spend your time isolated from the outside world during a global pandemic. This album is a testament to that time. “Theta” by Dreams Lead West is an instrumental story told through the mind of a traveler navigating this challenging chapter of life.

The artwork displays that journey, beginning in the neck of the person in the image and moving through each track as outlined by each “chamber” of the mind.

“The Bridge” is the slow easy track from the album. 

We thank George McMillian for this amazing artwork, check him out here
https://www.georgemcmillian.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

I produced a music video for this track as well, you can view it here
https://youtu.be/1Sug-PaWldQ?si=4UNdPi33ksPpT7S9

Buy Album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/theta/1535279351

Follow Dreams Lead West
https://www.facebook.com/dreamsleadwest

The Bridge

The Bridge by Dreams Lead West (2020)

I am a multimedia producer in River Falls, Wisconsin with 20 years’ experience. I specialize in audio production— music, podcasts, broadcast, and sound design. I also offer video editing and media digitization. I welcome all genres and project types. If you would like more information about me or my services, you can contact me at https://linktr.ee/razortoeproductions

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