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Dreamland is the Texas-based duo of
Johnny Rodriguez on keyboards, native American flutes and vocals,
and James Sidlo on guitar and sound effects.
They debuted with the ambient/world instrumental music of
Underwater (Dogfingers, 2001). Some of the lengthy tracks, notably
Sunspots (9.53), evoke the tense atmospheres created by
Klaus Schulze with floating melodic fragments,
as distorted guitars and electronic keyboards engage in a game of echoes and
superposition.
I Frequency - Dream in Soundwaves (7.38), instead, creates a gothic
mood by interlacing electronic drones and spectral male choirs.
The five-part suite Underwater is the most ambitious piece:
Descent (6.28) carves circle after circle of the vortex that leads into
a filigree of aquatic piano notes;
Floating (6.49) sculpts time and space via anoher dose of slowly
unfolding soothing electronic drones.
Echolocation (5.42) explores the suspended life of the depths,
while a few piano notes introduce the magical soundscape of
Deep Zone (8.01).
Ascent (3.29) is more tense, as the sounds of the journey are no longer
absolute, but relative to the noises of the environment.
Highly evocative and impressionistic, this is music for inner soundtracks.
James Sidlo is also in Honey Barbara,
the wildly eccentric project of
vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ross Marlow, who debuted in the 1990s with
FeedLotLoopHole (Emigre, 1993)
and whose
I-10 & W. Ave (Emigre Records, 2001)
is a surrealistic pastiche of electronica, dance music and rock'n'roll
that would make the Residents proud of him.
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