Late Dreamer

About Late Dreamer

The album is sonically pristine; soulfully deep, graceful and technically cohesive, giving it an overall refined quality. This quality is often lacking in some of our young house producers.

A vinyl-head from Pretoria, (the birth place of the local house movement); with an uncle like Michael G, (one of the pioneers of the early mid-tempo sub-genre) and idols like Atjazz, Osunlade, Jimpster and Charizma, it’s clear to see how Gomes’ influences may have moulded the purist house producer in him. He exemplifies how inclusive, pure and ever-evolving house music is. But it is the soul within and the genius he unleashes that makes him exceptional. And Late Dreamer is all him.

“I invested a lot of me in this debut album. It is my personal story and also very typical of what you find in society. With it I’m breaking away from stereotypes that society imposes – like what may be expected of me as a South African Portuguese boy for example. With it I’m living my truth,” he says.

The title, from which numerous sub-texts flow, justifies the reason for the delay. “It took a while for me to get to a place where I could dream and live the life that I want. Conceptually it’s about officially becoming a dreamer, no matter how late. It’s about falling asleep, dreaming, and waking up. It’s about quitting your job to do music. It’s about unpaid royalties; about being young and naïve and about taking a very big leap of faith and seeing it paying off.”

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