Recording Lightyears 2005
Music composed between 1999-2004
recorded and produced Jan.-Jun. 2005
in Bern/Switzerland
All Synths, Guitars , Programming and producion by Guido Meyer
Samples by Alexander Seewald, Manuel Bumb
and Guido Meyer
Cover Art by Markus Meyer
CD Inlay Artikel by Alex Seewald
Conditions for Musicians and also for the Musicindustry were changing after the Millenium.
With the Rise of Mp3`s , legal and Illegal Download Sites and Companys like " CD Baby" which allowes the independent Artist to publish what ever he wants no matter how less mainstream the Music is .
"Towards the blue horizon" was the first Album I released on CD Baby , briefly followed by "Episodes 1" . Other Disrtibuters followed and my Music found it's way as MP3's on "iTunes" and "Napster".
A Fan - Jared White - from California created and run my first Homepage "guidomeyer.com"
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I was carrying Ideas , Riffs and Melodies for "Lighyears" inside of me like a pregnant Woman. Collecting them since 1999 . I had this idea for a concept Album about the End of our Sunsystem in about 5-7 Billion Years. My Friend Alex Seewald purposely wrote a little Artikel about the Subjekt which was printed inside the CD Inlaycard.
The Recordings pushed my small Studio to it's Limits .
With only 16 Tracks to record , I was forced to do Ping Pong Tracking and I did lot's of it.
Never before I had played so many Overdubs ,..
Lightyears became one of my best and most succsessfull Albums and was very positive recived in the World of New Age- and Electronic Music ,...it was released in 2005.