Dreams + Things

Many of the songs have numerous time and key changes.The songs tell stories of happiness, hope, and hurt.

Of memories from the past and visions of the future.Of Dreams + Things.

The vocals are over the top.

This is Dan White’s most skilled work.He and Jeff took an entire summer to arrange and track vocals.They quadruple tracked every vocal line in every song with no pitch control, creating a truly unique texture.Solid lead lines anchor each tune,with backgrounds adding layers of harmonies, sustaining beds weaving in and out, carefully panned with selected reverbs of varying widths and depths.

Echo vocals answer lead lines sometimes telling a subplot within the basic story lines of the songs.

Tommy Alderson anchors the songs with driven bass guitar lines, complex guitar picking, overdriven rakes, and carefully placed melodic lead lines often textured with stacks of harmonies.The guitars sing their own story lines.

This is some of Tommy’s best work.

Dave Lee plays acoustic drums using the large house drum  kit which once graced stages in huge arenas worldwide (thank you Ian Paice).Dave’s drumming is spot on and dynamically lowers and lifts each of the songs.

Dave also edited all of the tracks on the record,setting up great mixes.

In addition to writing and arranging all of  the music and lyrics ,Jeff played rythem guitar,piano and virtual instruments.He was the producer,and tracking and mix engineer.

Special thanks to Fab Dupont for mastering this record at his Flux Studios in NYC.

And thanks to Dave Meredith for his website design and art work.