Biography

Like a dream itself, a combination of restlessness, imagination, and luck repeatedly brought Annastacia Monroe and Eric Hellinger together. With a little coaxing from the universe, the pair answered the call and wrote their first EP, featuring smash hit All or Nothing, an overnight success. What follows is a dreamy melding of blues inspired pop-rock with a magic wands dose of psychedelia. Annastacia pairs cautionary tales and moralistic fables with melodies that seem to have a tentacular reach, touching the highest highs and lowest lows of her wide vocal range. Hellingers talents are just as varied and enlighten listeners as he strikes each song with either ferocious intensity or a sunny "framptonesque" lilt that seems to flirt with the melody itself. Combining his sunny youth with Annastacias lonely dream-saturated childhood, you have the foundation of the Dream Masons. The Dream Masons came together about a year ago as singer Annastacia, who says she "knew of" guitarist Eric Hellinger from other musicians, heard the guy playing at Mohawk Studios in Huron where she was recording her "folk-y" solo project. "I met all the guys in the band at studios," says Annastacia. "We were all working on other projects, but it was a meant-to-be type of thing. We came together first as musicians and then had to learn to be friends. We've finally gotten there."