When Dustin Wong announced his intent to try and create musical accompaniments to people’s dreams, I immediately felt compelled to submit one. Today Dustin shared his first interpretation and, well, it was mine (!). He got the colors just right:
Today also marks the release of Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads. The transcendental hour (and one of the finest albums this year) is available via Thrill Jockey.
Thanks Dustin, this was truly an honor.
The sequence has a reoccurring feel, like it’s been tuned into already in progress, and for a misted glimpse there she is in that dream again, her nightly rendezvous, “You are here / My phantom”:
The only real block of English on a site belonging to Japanese duo AMORPHOUS comes where lyrics to the above track are posted. And in this context, its starry-eyed and poetically disjointed lines (“You are like a storm / All things go down / My heart is too”) become a little brilliant, adding some endearing insight to all the glitter.
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A frigid kind of starkness; a walk that doesn’t detail as much as it does consume:
Red Alder | Winterdress
Red Alder | Supernova
The tracks above came from “sad winter days, the ones where it snows all day and you can’t seem to force yourself out of bed” and “nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night from anxiety attacks, and sleep paralysis”, as explained by Kelsie Brown, who makes music as Red Alder, and also hosts a Washington State radio show called Radiated Sounds—”the project of an undergraduate student who lives in the middle of nowhere”.
The air met the colors just right; this was a portrait day, a pleasant one indeed. And with only a few blinks left before that golden hour, into frame entered in a peculiar man. His helmet bent the sun, and he spoke in reverse. From there the wind skipped a beat, the film overexposed, and they all quietly evaporated—confused, elsewhere, but okay.
Mascara Snake | Family Portrait in a Landscape
Mascara Snake | Man in a Golden Helmet
French artist Pacôme Genty has a way with scenes, and an album full of them, all painted in guitar loop and sprawling oddity, available on tape via Avant Archive and at bandcamp (alongside a handful of other releases).