Sleepwalk Plaza

SleepWalk Plaza: “Talking All Night” record release

The 2015 SleepWalk Plaza record release “Talking All Night” on Sound of the Muse Records, features the performance duo of Shann Bailey – lead singer, backing vocal arrangements, keyboards – and Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher – songwriter, music producer, and guitar player – with a stellar backing band. CBC radio, having broadcast songs from the album says that “Talking All Night features well crafted songs, in the adult alternative and pop-driven singer songwriter genres… pushing deep into the soul and the unconscious… this is a beautiful record that has a real vision musically and conceptually.” (CBC Radio 2016)

The Musicians

Shann Bailey – lead and backing vocals, synthesizer keyboard – Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher) – songwriter, backing vocals, rhythm guitars, percussion, synthesizer keyboards – Mark Ayton – (piano, drums, synthesizer string arrangements, lead guitar on Life in Spin), Alex Lopez – (lead guitar), Alex Bilodeau – (bass on all tracks), Chris Zimmerman -(drums on “Ghosts”), Peter Brown – (piano on “Ghosts”), Bruce Valeriani – (lead guitar on “Right Now), Bryan Valeriani -(drums on “Right Now), Julia Dodds (backing vocals with Shann on “Ghosts”)
All songs composed by Timothy Trieste.
“Ghosts” composed by Timothy Trieste and Shann Bailey.

SleepWalk Plaza: the concept from Timothy Trieste’s novella

“You can see them walking across the plaza: the dreamers, sleepwalkers, the searchers, lovers and losers. The plaza is life’s commute. They wander alone and unconscious, anticipating that moment which might offer a purpose, or a meaning for all of this. Sweeping their tired feet across the shiny midnight streets, in a sleepwalk, they roam the plaza because they had not found what they were searching for in the light of day. Something in the darkness offers a second chance. During these deepest hours when the light has been drawn down, smoothing all edges, and mending all fissures, amidst the tumble of stars and the drone of crickets out in the fields, they gather here. You can hear them talking all night.”

-Timothy Trieste from his novella “Talking All Night.” The E-book is a companion to the album and was the literary backdrop and inspiration for the songs and the stage show.

The Concert and Stage Show: Talking All Night

The 13 songs from the album featuring the sultry vocals of Shann Bailey, become the live soundtrack for a multi-media concert in which songwriter/storyteller Timothy Trieste replicates a late-night radio show where callers reveal their deeper thoughts to the host, along with their experiences of life and existence, out in the plaza of sleepwalkers, dreamers and searchers. Drawing on the great canon of poetry from around the world, the philosophy of Hegal, the psychological philosophy of Carl Jung, and theories of Einstein, astrophysicists and quantum theorists, Talking All Night takes us on a mystical and philosophical sleepwalk, asking the big questions: Where do we come from? Why are we here? Do we have a purpose? Is this existence real or is it a dream?

The Short Story/Music Film Series: Negotiations With Existence

SleepWalk Plaza songwriter/producer Timothy Trieste provides the narration for his short film series which ties together his SleepWalk Plaza songs and short story collection in a series entitled: “Negotiations With Existence.” Trieste was commissioned to produce the series by Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company GCTC during the pandemic lockdown. His film series ran at the theatre on-line from May – December 2021.
Watch Episode One: “This is Your Captain Speaking” concludes with the song Shadows Collide (No One Left To Catch Us) from the SleepWalk Plaza album.

“I Could Believe You”
Short Music Film by Timothy Trieste featuring the song inspired by a dream about Nietzche and Rilke.

“Life In Spin”
Music video from the album.

“Ghosts”
Music video from the album.

“Life In Spin” Webisode from series  “Negotiations with Existence”
Episode 3 of the philosophical short music film series written and produced by Timothy Trieste. The short film series (modeled after the SleepWalk Plaza stage productions, and Timothy’s short story collection) ran in 2021 for eight months at Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company GCTC.

“Sleepwalk”
Music video from the album