In Praise of Dreams

Release Date: 7th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: 7749889
Label: ECM

Grammy Awards

48th Awards (2005)

Nominee: Best Contemporary Jazz Album
Jazz 100

Top 100 Jazz Albums

Top 100 (Post-1980)

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

As seen from above

In praise of dreams

One goes there alone

Knot of place and time

If you go far enough

Scene from afar

Cloud of unknowing

Without visible sign

Iceburn

Conversation with a stone

A tale begun

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”In Praise of Dreams” issued for the first time on vinyl, features two musicians with whom the great Norwegian saxophonist shares some history - American-Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian and African-French

drummer Manu Katché.

Released for the first time on vinyl.

Garbarek, Kashkashian and Katché span a lot of idioms between them, but the music sings with a focussed sense of purpose, in the context that Jan has shaped for it. If dreams are movies for the mind, the album is aptly titled - its atmospheres are evocative and decidedly ‘filmic’.

”From the very first track ... the saxophonist serves notice that this is going to be a very different album to anything he has done before. The haunting electronically generated sounds seem to hang in the air like an early morning mist and are penetrated, like the early morning sun, by the sharp, almost crystalline definition of Garbarek’s saxophone, and, on subsequent tracks by Kashkashian on viola. The multiplicities of meaning conjured between them on pieces like “Knot in Time And place” or “Scene from Afar” take this album to a place where no Garbarek album has gone before. ... A major statement, possibly among his finest, by a major artist.” - Stuart Nicholson,Jazzwise

In Praise of Dreams

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