Dreams, like music itself is a bridge and a relationship to that eternal mystery: the presence and intention of the unconscious. They are pure nature; our aboriginal truth. The music on this recording can be considered as dreamlike soundscapes or sonic dreamscapes. Like our dreams, music holds the tension of ambiguity that intimates and points beyond itself towards that realm of mystery. It carries an energy that constructs bridges to those infinite worlds which otherwise lie beyond our rational capacities.
In our dreams, images and feelings rise up unbidden and connected in ways that often seem mysterious. Like emotive dream images, musical sound gestures appear juxtaposed in unusual and sometimes surprising ways. A musical theme might return in another composition just as a face might return again in a different dream, familiar, yet strange. While dreaming, time seems to stretch and contract unpredictably. We experience time in a non-linear way; past, present and future interweave freely. In this music, the middle can become the beginning, the beginning becomes the end and the end can become the middle. Sound gestures, constructed from this kind of emotional and intuitive logic become organic form. Herein some of the music pieces return as a future echo into the past. |
ARTISTS
Sylvain Leroux – tambin fulani flute, c flute, bamboo flutes
Michel Gentile – c and alto flute, bamboo flutes
Zé Luis Oliveira – c and alto flute, bamboo flutes
Kaoru Watanabe – noh kan, fue, c flute
Steve Gorn – bansuri flute, hichiriki
Peter Apfelbaum – c flute, bamboo flutes, melodica, bamboo sax
Ralph Jones – c and alto flute, bamboo flutes
Batya Sobel – oboe, ocarina and arghul
Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon, sona
Ned Rothenberg – b flat & bass clarinet, shakuhachi
Avram Fefer – b flat & bass clarinet, bamboo flutes
Charles Waters – b flat clarinet, bamboo flutes
David Rothenberg – b flat clarinet, seljefløytes
J.D. Parran – e flat contra bass clarinet, alto flute, ewart double flute, kalimba
Ivan Barenboim - b flat & bass clarinet, bamboo flutes
Stephen Haynes – trumpet, cornet, soprano cornet, conch, flugelhorn,
alto horn, didgeridoo, ewart bamboo horn
Graham Haynes – cornet, flugelhorn, ewart bamboo horn
Peck Allmond – trumpet, peckhorn, conch, kalimba,
Ted Daniel – trumpet, ewart bamboo horn
Peter Zummo – trombone, conch, didgeridoo
Steve Swell – trombone, ewart bamboo horn
Sarah Bernstein – violin
Charles Burnham – violin
Trina Basu – violin
Mark Chung– violin
Elektra Kurtis – violin
Curtis Stewart – violin
Midori Yamamoto – violin
Skye Steele – violin
Rosemarie Hertlein – violin
Jason Kao Hwang – violin, viola
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Marika Hughes – cello
Daniel Levin – cello
Isabel Castela – cello
Janie Cowan – double bass
Kenny Wessel – electric guitar, banjo
Marco Cappelli – acoustic guitar
Brahim Fribgane – cajon, tarija, oud, percussion
James Hurt – sogo, kidi, igbo bell, percussion
Matt Kilmer – frame drum, djembe, kanjira, percussion
Tim Kieper – dusun’goni, pandiero, percussion
Keita Ogawa –earthtone drum, hadjira, pandeiro, percussion
Tripp Dudley –kanjira, cajon, percussion
Chris Dingman – vibraphone
Alex Marcelo – acoustic piano
Stuart Popejoy – acoustic bass guitar |