Dillion
Dillion is a lyricist and songwriter based in Denver. His catalog includes six complete and in progress works spanning Americana, progressive rock and concept album formats. His themes are consistent across every genre. Loss. Accountability. The human capacity to survive what should have broken us. His belief about songwriting is simple. A song should cost something to write. And the listener should feel that cost and be paid by it. He is seeking collaboration with musicians, producers and music supervisors who understand that a lyric is not decoration. It is a testimony. Works - Empty Chairs — Americana / Singer Songwriter A two sided journey through grief. Side 1 carries the weight of loss honestly — the pain, the absence, the silence where someone used to be. Side 2 makes a choice. Not to forget. Not to stop hurting. But to remember with love and discover that love alone is enough to keep going. Not a grief album. A survival album. The difference between living in the loss and learning to carry it. Borrowed Stones — Progressive Rock Concept Album A two part tragedy about mental illness and suicide told from inside the experience. Part one follows a schizophrenic man through his own eyes as paranoia and breakdown dismantle everything he is. We don't observe his descent. We live inside it. Part two — Borrowed Stones: Another Stone — is a four song epic told through the eyes of the woman who loved him. We watch her watch him disappear. And we follow her into the same darkness until both stories end at exactly the same place. Same voice. Same song. Same outcome. One of the most ambitious concept works in independent progressive rock. Written and completed in six weeks. Echoes of a Spark — Singer Songwriter / Autobiography Three songs. Nothing more was needed. A true account of a man owning what he did. Not explaining it. Not asking forgiveness. Not expecting anything in return. Just standing in the full weight of his actions and saying clearly — I did this. I am sorry. And you were right to go. The rarest kind of honesty in any art form. Written for one person. True enough to reach anyone. The Last Meridian — Progressive Rock Concept Album — In Development A fictional apocalyptic journey told through the eyes of the last survivor searching for something worth surviving for. He finds evil. He finds suffering. He finds every reason to stop. He doesn't stop. A progressive rock meditation on the most fundamental human question. When everything is gone and darkness is all that remains — what makes a person choose to keep going? Currently in development. Four of nine to eleven songs complete. The Apocalypse of John — Progressive Rock Concept Album The biblical Book of Revelation told through a modern lens. Nothing added. Nothing taken away. Just the oldest vision of the end of everything brought forward into language and music that makes it land like it was written yesterday. Not a religious album. A human one. Because the fall and rebuilding of the world is a story every person alive already knows in their bones. Currently in development. Stories From Our Past — Americana / Singer Songwriter — In Progress True stories. All of them. A fifteen year old boy on a frozen road. A streaker who outran a freight train on Halloween, for four years straight...almost. A Christmas Eve that almost didn't end well and did anyway. A cousin who discovered twice that fire and flatulence are a dangerous combination. The weight a man carries from moments he can never take back. And the story a man never talks about — not because he forgot, but because he never could. Not polished. Not prettied up. Just the stories that make up a life — the ones you tell at dinner tables and the ones you never tell anyone. Currently in progress. Seven songs complete. Dillion is seeking collaboration with musicians, producers, and music supervisors who approach their work with the same seriousness he brings to his. Specifically he is looking for musicians and arrangers to bring completed demos to full production, sync licensing opportunities across film, television and documentary, and introductions to independent labels or publishers who work with concept and Americana projects. Lyrical integrity is non-negotiable. All collaboration begins with that understanding. Demos available upon request. Contact: thedillion@proton.me
Denver/Cheyenne
