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Dreamy Music

Murray Hamhandler

16:40 / 02.10.02

I was inspired to start this thread because I've been listening to Alpha's The Impossible Thrill a lot lately, especially when I'm in bed. Something about the music on that album more closely approximates the feeling of a dream than any music I've ever heard. The song structures are all over the place, bits of instrumentation dart in and out seemingly at random, the lyrics are at times incomprehensible and/or nonsensical... It's almost as if I've heard the music before in a dream and someone managed to pull it out of my brain and record it.

So. Do youse guys n' gals have any other examples of music that sounds as if it were derived from dreams (And when I say "dreams", I don't mean "nightmares". The thread for that is over here.)? The only other non-scary example I can think of off the top of my head is early Cocteau Twins. I want more! Help!

deja_vroom

19:28 / 02.10.02

From the top of my head:

"See-Saw", from A Saucerful Of Secrets by Pink Floyd.
A waltz, if waltzes were composed by spiders. Alien spiders.

"Magic Theatre", from K by Kula Shaker.
They're really singing about dreams, and the instrumentation is really dream-like.

"The House Of Forever", from Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - The Soundtrack by Victor Banana
It's David Lynch-dreamy, eerie, like that point where you just know something is going wrong and your dream starts to turn into something really ugly and sad.

A lot, if not all, songs from All Is Dream (duh), by Mercury Rev.

I'll come up with more later.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:00 / 02.10.02

I'd say either Coil's "Music To Play In The Dark vol. 2", or "The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse" by the Legendary Pink Dots. Both of which have inspired dreams in myself, and both of which have turned up when I was dreaming (and they weren't being played irl.)

bjacques

07:26 / 03.10.02

Harold Budd: Quicksilver and Forgotten Cities. Quicksilver starts with a sort of Hawaiian guitar sound, to get you into the white sand and palm trees groove.

NewPickettywitch

22:50 / 05.10.02

I would certainly say anything by Steve Roach, Vir Unis, or Robert Rich, although some may find this music a bit dark. Robert Rich used to put on all-night concerts in which the audience brought sleeping mats and blankets, and were asked to go to sleep and experience this music while asleep. One CD of Rich's music of this type "Trances and Drones" is very dreamy and represents the atmosphere of these concerts, but again, it can be dark at times. Rich has said in an interview that he's had to abandon (or at least he did for a while) this project as sitting up all night playing keyboards made him sick for days afterward!

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