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The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Ep323: The Idle Voices of Sleepersound + Patreon Giveaway

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Nate Goyer

Music, Music History, Music Interviews

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sleepersound is an indie-band who is self-financing their musical and visual creativity. Dan Niedziejko joins us to talk about Sleepersound's journey and how an indie band is finding its path through vinyl, visuals and beyond. PLUS we are giving the latest Sleepersound album to all Vinyl Guide patrons.

Topics include:

  • How Sleepersound came together
  • Having a visual artist in the band
  • Connecting visuals in the live show
  • Live videos during Covid
  • The songwriting process of Sleepersound
  • Trying to manage influences
  • How to know when the song evolution is done
  • Dan's record and music collection
  • Record shops Dan frequents
  • Their first LP "In Media Res"
  • Prepping masters for vinyl production
  • Writing long songs and how they translate to vinyl
  • Self financing the vinyl, Pressing vinyl at Furnace
  • Recording during the pandemic
  • What's next for Sleepersound – recording, next album
  • The timeline for vinyl production
  • Vinyl pressing colours and considerations
  • What's next for Sleepersound – Live shows

Check out Sleepersound on Bandcamp

Extended interview here: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide

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If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related

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0:00.0

Well, hey, everyone. Today we are doing a major vinyl giveaway, and we're doing it through our

0:05.5

Patreon page, patreon.com slash vinyl guide. Patriot com slash vinyl guide is the place that you can help

0:13.5

support this show, get extra content, extended interviews, early access to episodes, commercial

0:20.3

free interviews, plus this week

0:23.1

our top tier and long-term supporters are getting a free vinyl copy of Sleeper Sounds's new album,

0:30.5

Idle Voices. It's our way of saying thank you for your support at patreon.com slash final guide.

0:39.9

All patrons are getting a digital version.

0:45.6

So patrons check your email. Some of you are getting vinyl versions shipped directly to your front door. If you're not a Patreon supporter, I suggest doing it now because we're going to start

0:50.6

doing fun things like this more often. Patreon.com slash vinyl guide.

0:55.9

Get the extras, get the goodies, and enjoy the rest of the show.

1:01.5

Now, this week on the vinyl guide, we are welcoming Dan Najako of the band Sleeper Sound.

1:07.5

And I got to tell you, Sleeper Sound is a band that may be new to most of you, but hopefully

1:12.5

not for long, as I find their music incredibly captivating.

1:16.8

Sleeper Sound is a self-finance band who have made the commitment to put their music on

1:22.6

vinyl, now multiple times.

1:24.2

And their new album, Idle Voices, was my entry point to their work.

1:28.8

From all understandings, their live shows are spectacular, sleeper sound self-produced video

1:34.5

content for online and live shows. They certainly invest and work really hard to build an audience.

1:41.4

And today we're going to talk to Dan about that process, how an independent

1:45.4

band manages to keep the fires lit and remain creative through the recent years and continue to

1:51.6

build their audience. I encourage everyone to check them out now, sleepersound.com, sleepersound.com,

1:57.2

sleepersound.com, or search out Sleepersound on all social media. Also check out the new Sleeper Sound

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