Compact disc (2 CDs) 2020, Intakt CD 355, available from Intakt Records, P.O. Box 8024, Zürich, Switzerland, www.intaktrec.ch.
This impressive collection of compositions was inspired by various vivid doi:10.1162/COMJ_r_00596 dreams that the composer, Ingrid Laubrock, had during the previous ten years. Vivid dreams can lead artists to hitherto unimagined work or concepts that they, perhaps, had not been able to work out during their waking hours. Because logic or time are often irrelevant to the dream state, the mind is especially free to conjure objects, events, etc., that don't necessarily exist in the “real” world. For this project Laubrock followed the advice given to her by a medium in London. According to the liner notes, the medium suggested to “use the dreamlike state we find ourselves in just before going to sleep or just after waking as a trigger” for her writing. Laubrock did precisely that. As she puts...