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Dreambathing (full album)

by Noisewheel

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Dreambathing part 1 24:53
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Dreambathing part 2 26:10
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It's always been my desire to record an album like the ones I have listened to since I was a kid. An LP, if you like, with a “Side 1” and “Side 2”. With this spirit, Dreambathing came about.

Many of my musical heroes were no strangers to the "side long song" and I thought it would be incredible fun to create something with that sense of grandeur.

Fans of Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and Mike Oldfield will hopefully find something to move you. And I also hope to have added enough of myself into the mix to make this a worthy contribution to the overflowing musical landscape we live in today.

The whole album has taken several years to complete. Side 1 was always going to begin with piano, but from there on, it was an open book. Improvisation was a cornerstone of the music, and several sections retain the spirit of that initial spark that hopefully leads so something special.

Some parts took longer than others to complete. The end section of Side 1 was lingering incomplete for quite a long time until finally, the missing piece falls into place, and makes the whole thing work.

I started writing Dreambathing side 2 pretty much after finishing Dreambathing side 1, although the final version has only now seen the light of day. I had the idea for the first section pretty early on, but it had a different arrangement. Earlier versions never quite worked. As with the end of side 1, you work and work, and when the crucial element presents itself in a moment of inspiration, you’re home.

This is a (mostly) instrumental album, except for the spoken words at the end of the first section of side 2. Toward the later stages of the (very) long writing and recording process, my mother passed away. Like all families, our relationship was unique, with its ups and downs, and people seeing their own side of things clearer than the other's. As luck would have it, I still keep a cassette recording of me and my mother from nearly 40 years ago. I recently dug up this treasure and decided to use some samples of it for Dreambathing. I initially wanted to use some samples of my own voice, but after listening to the fragments again and again, I decided to use Mum's voice. The words she speaks sound profound in retrospect, and I could fool myself into thinking that she is talking about me, but unfortunately that's not the case.

The end of side 2 has not changed from the earliest versions. Alfred Hitchcock said he had the idea for the end of North by Northwest before the rest of the film. While that’s a bit of a lofty comparison, I definitely had the end chord sequence recorded almost before anything else.

I’m happy that the full Dreambathing experience finally gets a release, albeit in a purely digital form. It’s sometimes heavy going, but I hope you can find something to enjoy and maybe even move you.

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released February 12, 2020

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Noisewheel is the Artistic name of musician Jason Dykes. Beginning in 2002 with the experimental album On Air, Noisewheel music is at times simple, at times complex, always different. Noisewheel released the 25-minute Berlin school inspired Dreambathing. ... more

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