Dreams

Breathtaking and magical, the Turtle Island String Quartet present a piece of art that sends a pleasing and haunting rush though the listener's bloodstream. Opening up with the title track, "Spider Dreams" takes one on a fateful journey to musical bliss, opening up the listener to a variety of intriguing emotions. Whoever dares to take such an adventurous ride with the quartet will be richly rewarded. "Texas Tarantella" bursts with flavor and textures which only the most brilliant quartet groups can deliver. A

Dreams & Prayers (nominated for the 2015 Grammy award for best chamber music/small ensemble performance) century-hops over a millennium of music, juxtaposing A Far Cry’s own arrangements of music by Hildegard von Bingen and Ludwig van Beethoven with recent works by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (b. 1974) (created for and premiered by A Far Cry) and Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) (an arrangement receiving its first recording by A Far Cry). This premiere release on Crier Records consists entirely of premiere recordings.

Lucid Dreams 0096 is a 1996 ambient album, on the em:t label. It is credited to "0096", but this is merely the sequential catalogue number of the disc, labelled in em:t’s house style - the actual instrumentation on the album was provided by Miasma and Bad Data, two em:t artists. Writer, philosopher and psychologist Celia Green had already recorded one track for the em:t label - In the Extreme, which was featured on 1995's "2295" compilation. A quote from Green also featured on the CD's sleevenotes. In the Extreme featured Green reading extracts and epithets from her books The Human Evasion and Advice to Clever Children…

Mindflower is the brain/soulchild of Fabio Antonelli along with Fabrizio Defacqz and Alberto Callegari. Various albums have featured a host of other musicians but these three have been the core group. "The Art of Dreams in a Little Bottle" was released under the moniker of Fabio Antonelli Ensemble, but as far as the RPI team is concerned, as well as the presentation on the artist's website will acknowledge, the album can easily be included on the artist page of Mindflower….

"Arctic Dreams" (2020) is both warmly seductive and intense—a work whose seven sections bloom with passion as they map a musical journey through landscapes real and imagined. George Grella wrote in the New York Classical Review, “Adams’s manner is that of Thoreau—to be in a place, incorporate it into his memory and values, and recreate that through music. It misses the point to say he is inspired by nature—Adams is changed by nature and his music is a catalogue of the places that changed him.” Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, has called Adams “one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.”

German label AOR Heaven through its subsidiary 'Classix' has been done an excellent job reissuing classic AOR / Melodic Rock gems, some of them previous unreleased. This is the case with the digitally remastered "DREAMS (AOR Heaven Classix remaster)" from the American band of the same name which was founded by keyboarder Todd Loizzo and some of his like-minded high school friends halfway the '80s. Around 1985, in Palos Hills, IL, DREAMS started performing high-energy Melodic Rock in the Northern Illinois area perfecting their musical skills and style including headlining performances at major Universities, nightclubs and numerous city festivals…