Scott von Ryper

My debut solo record, Dream State Treasure is released today. The album was actually finished just over a year ago now, and I’ve been quietly waiting all this time to be able to share it, and let it go. That’s a long time to think about how I feel about it and not being able to keep tweaking it. 

Rather than feeling frustration, these songs and the gratitude I have for being able to put them together in this album, have kept me real company in what was a very isolated year or so for a lot of us. 

I truly hope the album brings a fraction of the pleasure & comfort to others that it has for me since starting it. 

Sincere gratitude to these talented people for their contributions: 

Drums, additional recording & mixing Norm Block @ Happy Ending Studios 

Backing vocals Sharlotte Gibson 

Cello & String orchestration Christopher Votek 

Violin & Viola Marta Sofia Honer 

Additional guitar Brent Övar Bergholm 

Mastering Original Mastering 

Photography Yana Olegovna Yatsuk 

Cover art Olya Dyer 

The album was written, produced, recorded & mixed by myself with the amazing help of all of the above. 

x

Scott

Scott von Ryper makes his solo debut with an LP entitled Dream State Treasure (due October 15 via Tran-si-ent Records and in conjunction with SilverDoor Music), and today, he shares its second single, "Over & Over," via Brooklyn Vegan. 

Primarily recorded and mixed in his home studio between 2018 - 2020, von Ryper utilized the break from touring and isolation in 2020 to explore sonic themes that he had experimented with early in his career when still recording on a 4-track, but just now producing them on a much grander scale, playing most of the instruments, recording, producing and mixing the majority of the record himself, with additional recording from Los Angeles engineer Norm Block, who also played drums on the record. 

The title, Dream State Treasure, is partly an acknowledgment of that fact that elements of the album came to von Ryper whilst dreaming. “I recall at least two occasions where I awoke out of a dream and went directly to the studio to record or completely change songs. "Goodnight, Goodbye" was a complete song that came that way, and "The Devil’s Son," was one where I simply awoke with a clear understanding on how to rearrange & reproduce an existing song that I was struggling with. What I awoke with in my mind was a much slower, more soulful song, and played on piano, not guitar. This reinvented version then formed a sonic bond with two other existing songs, and became the essence of the entire record to me. I honestly think it was the track that made me fully realize that I now had the album I wanted to make.”

The debut solo album “Dream State Treasure” will be released in October 2021 via Tran-si-ent records and Silver Door Music. 

The first track from the album, ‘The Devil’s Son’ – is available now. 

‘Dream State Treasure’ was primarily recorded and mixed in Von Ryper’s home studio between 2018 – 2020.  He utilized the break from touring, and the isolation of 2020 to explore sonic themes that he had experimented with early in his career when still recording on a 4-track.  Now producing them on a much grander scale, he played most of the instruments, and recorded, produced and mixed the majority of the record himself, with additional input from Los Angeles engineer Norm Block, who also played drums on the record. 

‘Dream State Treasure’ will be released 15th October 2021 on vinyl, and digitally via all major music services.