album released by Discus music, november 2019
I am very pleased to see the release of this album. It follows on the previous album with similar line up available on Discus – Les Oiseaux de Matisse.
This is the first work i did the day after i returned from my summer recording in Scotland. Martin called me in, and we did a session recording electronics with Gus Garside on bass, to add to existing material on a couple of tracks.
Later on, Martin gave me the stems and i took all this to my studio. It was such a pleasure to hear and work on this material. Ron’s playing is just marvelous and after Martin’s magic in the studio, all the instruments were coming together. I did some discrete processing of sax and drums mostly and added field recordings, some electronics etc.
This layer of electroacoustic sounds gave another dimention to the music which was mostly jazz instrumentation at that point. With the full soundscape, the album was then starting to feel closer to the original piece. The difference is that Les Oiseaux was recorded live in the studio, whereas Dream Feathers is more of a studio construct, with the addition of anton on guitar.
I could not tire of this music, and when the album was mixed, i did some further work listening through again and tweaking the sound for a last mastering. Everyone was pleased with the result and the files went straight to the factory. This album was just released on Discus label as Dream Feathers – 88CD.
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