Reaper, by Dawn Treader

Reaper

by Dawn Treader

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trey winx ;) beautiful piece of art about death. helps me out a lot. much love 🫶 Favorite track: Feelin' Again ft. Andrew Mbaruk & Imogen Wasse.

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1.	Reaper 04:33	buy track
2.	Reaper II (Can I Kick It?) 03:58	buy track
3.	Shuffle Off ft. DJ Gripski 03:54	buy track
4.	Feelin' Again ft. Andrew Mbaruk & Imogen Wasse 05:48	buy track
5.	Hallelujah an Interlude 04:04	buy track
6.	Ryan Gosling ft. 5peacepoet 04:28	buy track
7.	The Trustfall ft. Bo Gus & Alex Caron 03:38	buy track
8.	Reaper III ft. Bona Fyde 07:47	buy track
9.	Sleepy Winter (the secret song) ft. Madhattr, Ladyface & The Hattrs 04:56	buy track

about

This album is really close to my heart, a piece of it in fact. The music on it has no commercial value by most objective standards. It's not easy listening and does not invite good vibes. It is dark and heavy both emotionally and sonically for the most part. It was written at a time when the Reaper was close to me, visiting often. A large portion of it was written and recorded in the depths of the deepest dissociative depressive episode I've ever had.

This is the only album I've ever written that I can honestly say I would not be here if I did not write.

These songs despite issues with the samples, mixes and vocal takes, I can honestly say are my favourite and most important I've ever written.

When I finished composing this album the evidence of my poor mental condition was evident. The samples rendered poorly, the mixes unbalanced, the vocals recorded improperly. I tried more than once to go back and re-do the entire thing but each time I did it felt even wronger than before.

For me the beauty of this album is how deeply it reflects a broken human in a broken way. In the end I worked exclusively with the original takes and samples, mixing them as best I could, and then handing it over to Scott to master it.

The overarching journey this album goes on is from death to life. From being dead to being alive; and to understand that being alive is to walk with death every day for some people, and more often than that if you're me.

It's not necessarily an easy listen, I don't pull any punches or attempt to hide the dark place my brain was at. I make no attempt to soften the blow of the passive but present suicidal undertones. This album was about confronting death, wanting to die, dying to the world around me for a long time, and then coming back to life, slowly and with help, and with an invigorated sense for what role the Reaper has to play in my life.

An old familiar friend, an ironic cog in the machine called life. A misunderstood and requisite companion with whom we must learn to live, until it is our time to go with him. The Reaper.

credits

released December 24, 2023

Thanks to everyone involved, including all of the feature artists listed plus Josi Hunter for the album art and Scott Brunelle for mastering

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Dawn Treader London, Ontario

Dawn Treader is a hack and smash, DIY experimental producer who orbits consistently around the solar body that is hip-hop music, in varying vessels.: ambient, lofi, indie, emo, punk, sound collage and mental illness, to name a few.