A book of dreams

Joe Frawley (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Joe Frawley Music
• ASIN: B0019FAJZ6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #779,163 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review
A very narrative & cinematic approach to using sound effects, spoken word and tape collages, almost to make a radiophonic play of sorts... Frawley offers us tiny glimpses into a private, hermetically-sealed world that is incredibly beautiful. --Sound Projector magazine

Product Description
A sound collage novel, in the form of a dream diary, for piano and electronics: Think "Revolution No.9" meets Erik Satie.

Joe Frawley is proud to present A book of dreams: works for processed found sounds and piano, a subconscious Odyssey of surreal soundscapes, artfully blurring the boundary between music and sound art. Previously released as two separate EPs (Tangerine and The Hypnotist), the 12 tracks on this 50 minute compilation have been internationally acclaimed for their musical sensitivity, electronic ingenuity, and aesthetic innovation.

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Sounding like a slightly more classical version of The Orb, the music comes from that place between waking and sleep, snatches of speech only adding to the barely glimpsed mystery, the sounds beautifully mixed for maximum impact. Throughout, the piano is delicately poised, a soft rain of notes that are filled with emotion and blessed with gentle grace.--Terrascope Online

Not exactly 'ambient', but definitely 'cinema for the ear'... the carefully orchestrated samples and sound fragments seem to tell a story without images. A beautiful tension is created in a dialogue between the electronic soundscape and the piano improvisations.--Peter van Cooten, Dream Scenes (blog)

What I can comment on is the breathtaking quality of the music. Frawley's piano underlies everything here with a series of gently unfurling loops of melody. Intertwined with this is a simply bewildering array of immaculately placed sound effects and voice samples. An eerie and utterly compulsive listen that is wholeheartedly recommended.--Ian Holloway, Wonderful Wooden Reasons

What's invigorating is how effortlessly it actually expands and drifts by. Phantom memories. A sense of bemused wonderment that washes over each track. Like someone taking all the pretty, simple things in life and rearranging them into a gorgeous plunderphonic sound collage. --The Cookshop (blog)

Debussy meets electronics and a cylinder wax recording with some old conversations. Mood music of a highly original kind. --Vital Weekly ezine

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5.0 out of 5 stars A field recording of the dreamscape, June 6, 2008

By	William Timothy Lukeman - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

In this haunting successor to his "Wilhelmina's Dream," combining two EPs into one seamless work, Joe Frawley gives us more of his exceptional mastery of the sound collage as music. But it's not merely more of the same, although that would be impressive in itself -- no, there's an even more delicate, nuanced touch to this new work, which is more lyrical & shimmering than his previous work. Words & wordless voices call, echo, linger in a dreamily distorted haze; carefully chosen samples intertwine with original music, lonely yet warm. contemplative melodies ... the piano notes hang in the air like snowflakes, like cold drops of rain, like summer twilight made tangible in pure glass beads. Again, ghostly images are evoked, images that hover just out of complete clarity, punctuated by a precisely spoken word. Not for everyone, certainly -- but far more accessible than the dubious might think. It makes me eager & impatient for his next collection. Most highly recommended!