Musician Danny Vitali was wandering around Lairds Landing some years ago when he and a friend watched the fog pour over the ridge . A word came to him: Invernesia. (It rhymes with amnesia.) It’s now the title of his newly released album, which Mr. Vitali, a garden manager at Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company who plays bass and guitar with local groups The Haggards and the High Tide Collective, described as similar to 60s and 70s psychedelic folk rock. The lyrics were inspired by the subconscious, memory and “a fantastical perception of nature here. When you first arrive [in West Marin] it seems pretty otherworldly,” said Mr. Vitali, who moved here five years ago. The music, he said, was inspired by his experiences with the forest, fog and sea, particularly between Inverness and Bolinas. He wrote songs on his handmade guitar around West Marin: on the beach, after a dream, while hiking, or during a drive in the seashore, humming tunes in his truck when his radio was broken. It shows; in the slow, delicate “Myriad,” synths shimmer like the seas he sings of, while in “Farallon” he shifts between a slow-beat contemplation of the ocean and city lights and an edgier psych groove—perhaps reflecting the tension between the calm of the outside world and an inner roiling. Similarly, “Hollow” seems at first to be straightforward, lighthearted folk rock, but he switches at moments to deep, chant-like incantations (with the help of a bass vocalist): “Whispers of the wind/Uttered in the fog/I hear them in the spring/I believe it all.” The timbre of the instruments on the album, which pairs well with Mr. Vitali’s earnest voice, is visceral, particularly the ring of the guitar’s vibrations. That’s no accident; Mr. Vitali, who worked with Bay Area producer Rob Shelton at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone studio, recorded the songs in analog: they were played to tape, mixed, transferred again to tape and sent to the Midwest for mastering. “We didn’t use a computer the entire time,” he said. “Digital isn’t bad, but it’s a different medium. This is the most personal music I have ever made and I wanted it to have sincerity… that’s the thing about analog. You can hear the studio.” The six-track album concludes with “Invernesia,” in which Mr. Vitali drifts into a dreamy, foggy maze of hexes, “mixed-up memories,” “magic mixtures” and “hypnotic whispers.” He tries to focus but, like in fog, things drift away. Mr. Vitali will play at a release party for his album on July 16 at Love Field. The album is available through his website on vinyl or for download, at dannyvitali.com.