dreamcolour
Dreamcolour reflects a collective of musicians from Ventura County, California. The concept is to heal and lift the spirits and souls of human beings from all walks of life, with the fiery expression of collective free improvisation. We aim to bring back the trance-inducing vibrations, frequencies and rhythms used by the ancient shamans and spiritual healers of the past, but also to experiment with and incorporate the scientific advances of the present and future, relating music as a direct pathway to the human spirit and as a healing force in the universe.
By manifesting these ideas and theories through sound and music, we hope to open the minds of our listeners and participants, and to encourage the deep introspective thought and ego-loss freedom, characteristic of the psychedelic experience.
We draw inspiration from the spirit musicians of the past: Albert Ayler, Milford Graves, Arthur Doyle, Sun Ra, Sonny Sharrock, Muhal Richard Abram, Robert Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie Johnson & more... as well as the psychedelic pioneers and navigators: Terry Riley, Can, Xhol, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, 13th Floor Elevators, Ash Ra Tempel, Hawkwind, Acid Mothers Temple, Boredoms, Nels Cline...
ENERGY IS AN ETERNAL DELIGHT-WILLIAM BLAKE
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SPIRITUAL CELEBRATION C40
There’s currently a glut of bands dog-paddling around the trans-continental psych-pond with names involving words like ‘color,’ ‘dream,’ and ‘infinity,’ and Ventura County brass-groove arkestra Dreamcolour are smack thick in the middle of this ’08-‘09 nomenclatorial zeitgeist (though to their credit they use the British spelling). Yet, semi-ironically, the mood of the zones they explore on Spiritual Celebration are wonderfully vintage, with a strange, reverential “out of time†quality that seems decidedly non-NOW. Hand-drums beat along with a steady, easy lope, saxes are crooned (not skronked) smoothly up towards the sun, Farfisa trills further brighten the corners. There’s no damaged FX-abuse or lo-fi freakouts; all minds are fused into one gently simmering open-air spiritual jazz homage. Echoes of Don Cherry abound. The tape is split into three chapters: a stunning 20-minute A-side hayride (“Spiritual Celebrationâ€), a briefer horn flurry piece (“Sun Ritualâ€), and a gorgeous lunar meditation chamber (“Moon Ritualâ€). A great West Coast force with an exotic back catalogue and a killer live vibe, worth keeping tabs on. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color marker/collage J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100.
-not not fun
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INTERMISSION FOR TRIANGLE THEORIES C20
Recorded at The Barn in Ojai, CA by Dreamcolour.
Intermission for Triangle Theories is full of trip inducing sounds. Guests include: Natalie Alyse, Teodora Nikolova, Betsy Sue and Bryn (tapdancing!).
Blood Quantum starts the album with a chugging tribal beat giving way to a wave of free-form sounds, fading directly into Zoned, a tap dance/sax duo fades into a free-improv session complete with multi-drum sensory overload.
Limited to 20 tapes. Soon to be released on Neon Aztec .
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