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The Dreamcatcher Tapes Volumes 1 & 2

by The Eccentronic Research Council

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Levrikon
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Levrikon Really wonderful, playful songs based on recordings of peoeple recounting their dreams. The music goes from Beatlesque pop to pulsing krautrock to droning loops and everything in between. Favorite track: Karen's Dream.
Andrew H
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Andrew H Wasn't sure if this would work over a double album's worth of material but I was wrong! It's utterly captivating. Found, my attention wandering between the stories and the music. At times it reminds me of those fabulously seedy spoken-vocal Pulp songs c.Intro/His & Hers. Favorite track: Karen's Dream.
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popdeath I'm really glad I don't do psychedelics any more Favorite track: John's Dream.
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John's Dream 02:20
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Innes' Dream 02:08
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Paul's Dream 02:55
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Mick's Dream 03:17
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Ben's Dream 02:13
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Lias' Dream 04:08
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Don's Dream 02:20
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Pete's Dream 03:51
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Dan's Dream 02:11
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Paul's Dream 01:46
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Nick's Dream 03:54
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Ami's Dream 02:39
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Mark's Dream 01:35
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Lois' Dream 03:25
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about

“This is a weird record, for weird times, made by weird people, for weird people!” Says John Doran in his sleeve notes for the album.

Back in 2015, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BBC broadcast of Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange’s “Inventions For Radio: The Dreams”, The Eccentronic Research Council released their own super-limited edition cassette soundtracking the recalled dreams (and nightmares) of friends, artists, actors, musicians, scientists, poets and filmmakers. The release was called “The Dreamcatcher Tapes Volume 1”. Five years on, and with a large part of the planet under lockdown and with nowhere to go but within their imagination, the ERC put a call out once again to music collaborators, nurses, teachers, truck drivers, writers, journalists and shop workers to upon waking, record their dreams straight into their phones and to then send them to the ERC to soundtrack. And thus, Volume 2 of The Dreamcatcher Tapes was born!

“We got around 26 dreams sent to us via email over the space of a couple of weeks then Dean and I revved up the old analogue equipment and would record music and collage sounds to the dreams (remotely) from our home recording studios and bounce them back and forth to each other till they were done. It was a really good way to work actually, sometimes I didn’t even have to put on any trousers!” says ERC/ Moonlandingz founder Adrian Flanagan.

“I was really interested to see how the enforced lockdown and the removal of people’s basic needs such as human contact and hanging out in close proximity to friends was affecting the dreams of my friends, peers and those at the very front line of this horrible pandemic”, Adrian continues. “The Important shared experiences for people’s mental health such as going out to gigs, the pub, the cinema etc.

”It was an interesting experiment. Nurses dreaming of inadequate PPE and having to use blow up Elvis costumes to protect themselves. Teachers dreaming of zombies and lots of people dreaming about sex - where the hair of Greek sorceress’s Circe meets bouncy castle breasts and where other dreamers dream of serial killers or seeing dead family members, or taking baby elephants for a walk, or having discos for one in the middle of the ocean and so much more. I’m really proud of this record. It’s psychedelic in its truest most cerebral form”

“Although our long time collaborator Maxine Peake wasn’t on the very first tape (her dream ended up on LTD edition split 7” ERC single we did with Pye Corner Audio) - she was the first dream that we soundtracked when I came up with the idea of doing the concept record. However, on the new vinyl and tape box set - she opens volume 1. Across the 2 volumes there’s film maker Carol Morley, Andy Votel from Finders Keepers records, John Doran from The Quietus (who also wrote the albums brilliant sleeve notes), acclaimed writers Benjamin Myers & Adelle Stripe, musicians such as Evangeline Ling from the group Audiobooks, Lias Saoudi from my ‘semi fictional band’, The Moonlandingz and fat white family, Sidonie from The Orielles, journalists /writers Wyndham Wallace (he wrote lee Hazelwood’s brilliant biography) and Daniel Dylan Wray amongst a whole array of musician friends, eccentrics and people with actual proper jobs!”

credits

released March 19, 2021

Thanks to all the dreamers: Maxine Peake, Brian Trevelyn, Carol Morley, John Doran, Zavier Gould, Karen Light, Innes Smith, Tiana Krahn, Denise Harrop, Paul, Michael Conroy Harris. Evangeline Ling, Benjamin Myers, Lias Saoudi, Sidonie Hand-Halford, Pete Hope, Daniel Dylan Wray, Adelle Stripe, Andrew Shallcross, Nick Potter, Madge Pilchard, Cecilia Fage, Wyndham Wallace, Olivia Meze, Lyddie Mac, Micky 'Milky G' Graham, Ami Nash, Mandy Wigby, Don Himlin, Paul Bareham, Dorian Cox, Sarah Green, Damian Morgan, India Garry, Lois Macdonald, Mark Fox, Dimitri.

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Council return to soundtrack the recalled dreams (and nightmares) of friends, artists, actors, musicians, scientists, poets in "The Dreamcatcher Tapes Volume 1 & 2”.

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