An Alleyway to Your Nightmares

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> An Alleyway to Your Nightmares
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> ### Artist
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> I Remember 2006
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> ### Released
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> 8 March, 2023
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> ### Recorded
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> February to March, 2023
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> ### Length
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> 4:24:30
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> ### Producer
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> Rafe (RonZak) LaNore
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> ### Vocalist(s)
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> Rafe LaNore (Tracks 1-6, 8-9, 10-12, 17, 20-21, 24-28)Wilbur Bullara (Tracks 14-16, 18, 23)
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> ### Instruments
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> Rafe LaNore: Electric Guitar, Acoustic, Bass Guitar, Piano, Violin, Percussion, KalimbaWilbur Bullara: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Steel Drum, Violin
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> ### Writer(s)
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> Rafe (RonZak) LaNore, Wilbur Bullara
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> ### Photography
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> A drawing by Rafe LaNore, photography by same person
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> "There’s an army of alley cats/In intersected alleyways/Patrolling the pavement/As if it’s theirs to own"
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> Army of Alleycats
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> "Stay with me, sonny/Everything is going to be alright"
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> Everything is going to be alright
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## Synopsis

An Alleyway to Your Nightmares is the forty-third I Remember 2006 album, and is the second album in Era Eight. Over a whopping four hours long, "Alleyway" is chock full of lore-important storytelling, ending in a heart-breaking two-parter. This album continues stories from the albums, The Downfall of Reality, Chaos Theory, The Rifts Take Over, and Monsters. It even begins new tales in the lore with Spirituva, and The Alleycats.

## Tracklist

The First Generation on the Surface

Piloting a Cloud

Cabin

Mary, Only Daughter

Tunnel Machinery

Dardanus Sulcus

Threshold to Another World

Living in the Halls

Titan and I

An Alleyway to Your Nightmares

Stalker in the Avenues

Through Every Street

The Rich Abandon the Poor, Though They Never Get More

Storm in the Sky

Look at what we were able to recover

The Color Red

The Remaining Pieces

Left Behind

Film Projector

Rising from the Flames

Cosmic Salute

Observing Movement on Callisto from Ganymede

Spirituva

Marbles

Led Into the Woods

Melted Frames

Army of Alleycats

Everything is going to be alright

## Important Characters

Casey Jasra

Elias Jasra

Russell Roundhouse

Joseph Jackal

Mary

Hayden

Francis (alluded to)

Brandi

Quinton (alluded to)

Venessa (alluded to)

Micah "The Sculptor"

The Mentor

Sicyon Mallorak

Tiamata Sarislow

Sicyon and Tiamata's Parents

Mitzie

Lüschor

Mitzie's Mother

Ventuni (mentioned)

Grenaron (alluded to)

Konstantin Abakumov

Asriel Noklass

Hudson Tianna

Jasmine Sienna

Franklin Moriell

Vladimir Ozekatchio

Nikolai Satcharioh

Chloe Velarent

James Baranch

Tony Machiell (alluded to)

Samantha Bearino (alluded to)

Jackson Sochare

Ezekiel Nikeino

Brooke Hallarna

Tristan Hallarna

Monica Vescovich (alluded to)

Jordan

Helen

Gerald

Allison

Arnold

John

Darren

Sandra

Jordan's Father

Yalaing Orleta

Mayda Kraken Titan

## Trivia

* This is the longest I Remember 2006 album to date, and it is about a minute less the Rafe's longest album under the RonZak moniker, Flotsam Soundtrack First Version.
* This album has the seventh drawn cover for I Remember 2006
* A lot of bad stuff was happening to the members of the band
	+ There was a family fallout on Rafe's side
	+ Rafe's SD card, which had several project Rafe and Wilbur were working on, had bricked after the recording of Storm in the Sky. 122gbs worth of data was lost. Rafe managed to recover most of the recordings for this album via an Audacity file on another computer, but they were still forced to rerecord up to four songs. Titan and I was recovered in a different for Rafe had previously sent it over to many people. Otherwise, they would have had to record Titan and I for the third time
* Titan and I was originally supposed to be on an abandoned album that was also lost because of an SD malfunction that had went by the name of Finest Hour. The album was supposed to have a musical concept of all the songs being ten minutes, and there was to be six tracks. It was inspired by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album, Made in Timeland, and retroactively Laminated Denim.
	+ Another song that was supposedly on the abandoned album was War on Identity off of The Obelisk God. The original version of the song is lost to time (hehe), but is now a fourteen minute epic. Wilbur recalls this song originating on the lost album, Finest Hour.
	+ Likewise, Titan and I was originally a ten-minute track, but now is less than four minutes.
	+ And another song that was on that abandoned album was also a (slightly) longer version of Led Into the Woods.
	+ Piloting a Cloud was another one that originated from that album.
	+ It is possible the might attempt that concept again some other time.
	+ To read more about the lost album, check its page out here.
* Sicyon Mallorak is a reference to Sicyon, an ancient Greek city, as well as Sicyon Sulcus, an area on Ganymede.
* Tiamata Sarislow is a reference to a Mesoamerican primordial goddess named Tiamat, or 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳. Goddess of the sea, essentially. Another reference is to Tiamat Sulcus, an area also on Ganymede.
* Yalaing Orleta is a reference to many things. Yalaing is a reference to an Australian spirit land by the same name. Another reference is to an area on Titan known as Yalaing Terra. Now, his last name, Orleta, is a reworking of another one of Rafe's characters from another project; Cassidy Ortèlo from Scortalo in the 316th Dimension.
* Spirituva references Ventuni and Grenaron, two characters from other projects by Rafe, most notably another musical endeavor of Rafe's, known as Dimension 56.
* The Rich Abandon the Poor, Though They Never Get More is the oldest song on the album and was likely recorded during the Rifts Take Over sessions.
* Threshold to Another World is the only instrumental that is not edited.
* An Alleyway to Your Nightmares (song) was recorded with it being backmasked afterwards in mind, like how The Bridge from Astral Paralysis was designed to grow as the backmasking goes on.
* Piloting a Cloud, Dardanus Sulcus, Titan and I, The Remaining Pieces, and Led Into the Woods had to be recorded, sometimes many times, for one reason or another. Stalker in the Avenues had to be recreated.
	+ The original version of Dardanus Sulcus might be able to be recovered, for the original version was a demo Rafe had recorded on a cassette tape, but no word if he had accidentally recorded over it.
* Look at what we were able to recover was the last song recorded for the album, and was based on the data loss that had occurred near the end of the album cycle.
* Look at what we were able to recover is the first song on the second half of the album, and the album ends on Everything is going to be alright. Put them together and you get: "Look at what we were able to recover. Everything is going to be alright."
* Army of Alleycats and Everything is going to be alright are the last two songs of the album, and are what the album cover is based off of.
* The main recurring story in the is album seems to be of the Rasacáz finally living on the surface of Mars. Other main stories are of Jordan and Helen in The Alleyways, the survivors of the Sculptor, Joseph Jackal and Russell Roundhouse (and the Jasra Brothers), and the Teens of Ganymede.
* Stalker in the Avenues and Through Every Street are villain songs, showing Joseph Jackal unhinged as he tries to hunt down Russel Roundhouse. At one point, he even vaguely threatens the Jasra Brothers (Casey Jasra and Elias Jasra).
* You can see posters that portray (a really hard to describe) Micah on a wanted poster, as well as newspaper clipping referencing the children he kidnapped.
* The building that make op the alleyways turn into trees on the album cover. Even the windows in the far back turn into trees as the windows get more elongated.
* The character on the album cover is Jordan.
	+ From where he's standing, it is insinuated that the apartment he just left is Helen's Apartment.
	+ The apartment all the way at the end is likely Jordan's Apartment.
	+ Because of the posters that deal with Micah and his kidnappings, it is insinuated that could be Gerald's Apartment. This is furthered by the line "Gerald patrols the alleys" on Army of Alleycats. It's possible that Gerald is an officer of some kind, possibly even being in the SWAT team that broke into Micah's House.
* There is an odd cut around the half mark of Piloting a Cloud. This was because of an interruption that happened. The band mates liked how the odd cut sounded, so they didn't rerecord the track (again.)

## Artists' Notes

### Rafe's Note

This album took us a while to make, but it was worth it, despite the disasters that were happening behind the scenes. There was a family fallout that happened on my side. Also, during our second-to-last session, my SD card bricked and I lost 122 gigabytes worth of information, including Threshold Lost recordings (again), R-GR (but I managed to back that up), RonZak stuff, and all of the recordings for the third Меркурий Хейзел Co. album, and several other files I was trying to keep backed up. That included this album, but because I didn't close down a certain Audacity file, we were able to recover most of this album, having to only rerecord I believe four songs.

Now, this album is about stories that are important to the lore of the band. Colonization, terraforming, kids who escaped a kidnapper, an underground Martian race (Ra[s]acáz) finally being able to be on the surface, a child stuck living in a dangerous alleyway system (hence the name), a child playing with a "titan" on Titan, teens on Ganymede struggling with having to lead the next generation, a child that loses her mother, people who survived an attack on a ship, two brothers living in a cabin after being rescued by an outlaw from the 1800s because the brothers' family was eaten by a lake monster, and somebody whose trying to hunt down someone they hate. General crash course to this under four-and-a-half hour behemoth.

I have ideas of where to go next, but I don't have an idea of which one it'll be. I've had two rock operas in the works for years that I've never got to finish. I want those to be done really well, so I want to take my on the writing of them.

Thank you all for sticking with us. Making this album was an emotional roller coaster.

-Rafe LaNore

### Will's Note

An Alleyway to Your Nightmares was essentially a product of testing to see how far we could push ourselves in terms of the album’s length. We were originally shooting for around 3 hours, but ended up at the 4 hour mark. To say the least, I’m really proud of this release. Rafe and I put our heart and soul into this album. A lot of literal blood, sweat and tears went into the making of this album. We lost a whole SD card during the process, but we managed to recover almost everything IR06-related. Rafe lost a lot of important shit though, which really sucks.

This album kind of serves as a spiritual successor to The Rifts Take Over. A lot of it is lore-driven and contains world-building. It continues stories from previous albums and even introduces new characters and stories.

I love this album with my whole heart. It was cathartic to make.

I’d like to thank God, Rafe, my grandparents, my sister, my therapist, Brenda, Brandon, Rae, and Emily. Thanks for making my life more bearable. I wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for you guys, so thanks.

I love you,

-Wilbur Bullara

1. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/album/an-alleyway-to-your-nightmares
2. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/album/an-alleyway-to-your-nightmares