From The album Chasing The Electric Dream
leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-the-electric-dream
or fans of Tomita, Vangelis, and Tangerine Dream
THE HISTORY
Throughout the years I have composed and recorded several pieces that weren’t specifically created for an album. Sometimes, these ended up being reworked, or parts of them were woven into other pieces of music that managed to make it onto one of my records. Sometimes, however, they ended up as just single pieces that I archived, waiting for the right moment to either finish them or release them in one form or another.
Earlier this year, I recorded a new piece of music that qualified as one such “orphaned” piece. I was very pleased with how it turned out and was looking for a vehicle to share. Releasing it as a single would not have made much sense, so I went back into my archives to see if I could put together a collection of this with others I had in cold storage as one cohesive project. I found enough with a common sonic ground to make up an entire album.
My methodology left me with a few of the pieces dating as far back as over 20 years ago. A massive flood in 2017 wiped out the drives that held those multi-tracks, so I had to recreate or re-record some of the material, but luckily, some survived intact, just as they were... more
from
A Year In A Revolution 2022,
released January 20, 2023
Leon Alvarado all instruments Engineered by Leon Alvarado Engineering Assistance by John Douglass Mastering by Maor Appelbaum