Escaping Dreamland Blackstone

‘Dreamland’ is the first single from their forthcoming – as yet unnamed – album and features Years & Years. The five-track CD single features two remixes and new other songs. ‘An Open Mind’ is a non-album track from the sessions, while ‘No Boundaries’ taken from the stage version of Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette, which opened in Leicester September 2019.

At their best, cover albums have a strange way of galvanizing an artist by returning to the songs that inspired them; the artists can find the reason why they made music in the first place, perhaps finding a new reason to make music. Robert Plant's Dreamland – his first solo album in nearly ten years and one of the best records he's ever done, either as a solo artist or as a member of Led Zeppelin – fulfills that simple definition of a covers album and goes beyond it, finding Plant sounding reinvigorated and as restless as a new artist…

At their best, cover albums have a strange way of galvanizing an artist by returning to the songs that inspired them; the artists can find the reason why they made music in the first place, perhaps finding a new reason to make music. Robert Plant's Dreamland – his first solo album in nearly ten years and one of the best records he's ever done, either as a solo artist or as a member of Led Zeppelin – fulfills that simple definition of a covers album and goes beyond it, finding Plant sounding reinvigorated and as restless as a new artist…

It all started when guitarist Erich Lehna and Davide Swarup met and played in Goa for the first time. The journey then went on with violinist Julien Moretto, flutist and percussionist Fatima Gozlan and Constantin Kayatma on electronics. Highly influenced by Indian music and spirituality, these 5 talented artists explore the path where the flower of life blossoms, where sounds become one, where souls find oneness.