About The Dreamer and the Sleeper

This post is a work in progress!

We are The Dreamer and the Sleeper! We are a Pop Rock/Acoustic band based out of Monterey, California. The Dreamer and the Sleeper was formed November 2005 and is an independent band made up of two official band members: Nick Pappageorgas and Easton Broome. As The Dreamer and the Sleeper we have independently released 2 eps and 2 full length records and in 2009 formed Icarus Kids Recordings as a label to release D&S material under.

The Dreamer and the Sleeper officially began in November of 2005 while both members were still attending college in Los Angeles and Berkeley California. We recorded our first demos throughout 2006 by sending music back and forth over the internet. We released our first music to the public, a demo of Leaving the Hospital; I'm Going Home on April 23, 2006. We continued to release demos throughout 2006. All but one song, Charmer, have appeared on an official The Dreamer and the Sleeper release.

In late 2006 we began writing and preparing to record our first full length album, Fireworks. As we wrote and recorded more and more songs for Fireworks some of our earlier songs were removed from the album. These songs became the Oh, Is for Overture EP which was released on March 9, 2007. The Oh, Is for Overture EP was an extremely limited print of 50 copies and came in packaging that was hand-made by us! The EP has since sold out and has been released digitally.

On July 7th, 2007 we released our first full length album, Fireworks. We released the album for free download on the internet for a number of months before finally releasing hard copies of the album.

In October and November of 2007 we recorded a special holiday EP which we aptly called The Holiday EP. The Holiday EP was released on November 30, 2007 and was made up of holiday inspired original D&S songs, plus a cover of Wham's Last Christmas.

Almost the entire course of 2008 and a good portion of 2009 was spent writing and recording our new full length album. An increased desire to play our music live forced us to change how we went about writing our songs and essentially how The Dreamer and the Sleeper operated as a band. These new songs were recorded with both of us in the same studio at the same time, something we had not done with our previous recordings. Many of these studio sessions were broadcast live over the internet via Ustream.tv.

We released our second album Autumn in the Evening on June 2, 2009. This was the first album officially released under our own record label Icarus Kids Recordings, named after Nick's graphic design studio and day-job Icarus Kids Design Studio.