Here is the second installment from the Lost Lake Stories collection of mixups previously posted at Low Light Mixes. The title, Book of Dreams, is taken from a book by Jack Kerouac (as will the next several in the Lost Lake Stories collection). I tried to make this mix dream-like, having pieces of music float from one into another and fade out then back in again later as often happens with dreams. The music overall is very quiet with both ambient and acoustic elements present with a heavy reliance on strings (violin, cello). There is multi-level mixing and several field recordings, both Quiet American and a couple of my own, that whisper and play in the background like voices and distant sounds in dreams. The jpeg “score” (see post below) for this mix is included in the Cover Art and Score Zip file below. Also, right below is the “soundword” description for the mix I did trying to use a Kerouac-like automatic writing style. It turned out kind of crap new-agey, but what the hell! Remember--I like comments! I hope you like the Book of Dreams…
L o s t L a k e S t o r i e s C h a p t e r 2: BOOK OF DREAMS
The Book of Dreams, washed up on the misty fractal shore of
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T R A C K L I S T I N G
- Peter Gabriel - The Nest That Sailed the Sky
- Talkdemonic - Verite
- RF - Ladder in Place
- Roger Eno & Plumbline - With Insight
- Voices of Alex
- Eluvium - All The Sails
- Stars Of The Lid - The Artificial Pine Arch Song
- Biosphere - Dissolving Clouds
- nrvnet Field Recording
- Various Quiet American Field Recordings
- Underworld - Please Help Me
- Solyaris - IPromisethatOneDayEverything
- Vir Unis & Chris Short - Monastery of The South
- Sylvain Chauveau - Ocre
- Cepia - Malcesine
- Alio Die - Suspended Feathers
- 12 Monkeys OST - Dreamers Awake
- Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso -Prison Song
- Sylvain Chauveau - Le brasier de tristesse
- Slowbow - Elegy
- Sydney M - Chords Echo 2
- Vidna Obmana - Float through Nights
- Francesco Paladino & Opium - Me, the Sky Sleeping
- Alio Die -
- A Produce - The Far Shore
- Clickits - Nibblah
- RF - On the Bus That I Had Chosen
- David Byrne - Canal Life
- Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd - Neil's Theme2
- Lisa Gerrard - Empty Water
- Peter Gabriel - The Nest That Sailed the Sky
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14 comments:
Your welcome dub u. I hope you liked the mix.
This is great sound! moody and mystical and I loved it..
I just discovered you today and Low Light mixes (yesterday) and will bookmark you both for return visits and listening.
I think I would like to use some of these sounds as background to my own videos to post onto my friend/family blog. What, if any, are your rules for my doing this? (I guess I am concerned about infringing on your own copyrights.)
Thanks for your good works!
bill (in washington, dc)
Thanks for the positive comments Bill! I'm glad you like the mix. As for copyright, I just do this for fun. And even though this is a unique mix due to the mixing up of the music, any copyrights are held by the original artists (see playlist). The general unwritten rules for mixes are, as long as you don't use them for profit and give proper credit to the original artists then you're usually fine. By showing the playlists I hope that people will buy the originals.
As for me, if you could maybe post a link to my blog, the Hydrogen Café, that would be cool. I just want people to hear and enjoy my stuff! Thanks again for listening.
Very nice! I like it. office phone
This is a great mix - I've listened to this a tremendous amount, so I'm curious as to when we'll see another...well done.
Jason
www.infractionrecords.com
Thanks for the great comment Jason! I am working on another mix now and will try and post it within a week. Keep checking back. Thanks again.
Hi and thank you for 'Book Of Dreams'. I love it.
I hope someone can help me.
My question is - just towards the end of Stars Of The Lid's The Artificial Pine Arch Song (around 21:58), there is a faint recording of a woman whom if you listen very carefully, you can hear what she's saying. She starts out saying something like "They were never meant for a world like this. But they have a gift." She goes on to say "Get in. Get on. Get near. Get under. Get up on top of. Get inside the ... (something. I couldn't make out the last word)
Do you know the bit I'm talking about?
I've searched the Internet and it's not from anything already on the Net and nobody else seems to have picked it up or if they have, they haven't made a note of it on the Net.
I was wondering if anyone would know where this is from and what it's about. Was it just recorded for the song or is it sourced from somewhere else?
Regards,
Steve
steve@foo-unix.org
P.S.
I didn't want to bore you with the entire record of what was said in the main body of the email but if you want/need, I've included the rest of the words that I could make out - as best I could. They may not be accurate! I've just put in ..... where I couldn't understand what she was saying.
....The aftershock
.....we admit
They were never meant for a world like this.
But they have a gift. Gravity. Gravity and the ..... end hard ... question.
.....
Get in. Get on. Get near. Get under. Get up on top of. Get inside the ...
The persons.
The persons of your obvious choice.
The persons of your obvious choice.
Get p.ssed. Get passionate. Get open and ....
Never left. Never get left out.
Don't leave until you've had too much.
Until you've sampled everything, everyone, anyone.
Don't get left alone. Don't ever be alone.
Don't be that ... sad.
Get up and take it, and keep on taking it until it runs out.
......
Steve,
Sorry it took me so long to reply. As for your question, I really have no clue were that voice comes from at the end of Stars Of The Lid's The Artificial Pine Arch Song. What you could do, however, is try and contact Stars of the Lid directly. They have an e-mail address listed on their website. I am sure they could tell you where that voice originated.
SOTL website: http://brainwashed.com/sotl/info.html
SOTL e-mail: chocogus@gmail.com
Thanks for listening.
Rick
(nrvnet)
wierd. I downloaded this song over what seemed 2 -3 years ago and its blogged as 2006...
well either way this is the best ambient song ive ever heard,so good that i decided i had to find it again, idk what Id do if this song was just gone and lost forever
I originally found it while watching the movie dark city, towards the end it flashes a book called book of dreams so I googled it and found somehow stumbled on this a long time ago it was on some wierd german mp3 site
The best part is where the piano, bass and strings kick in around 2:20
I've fallen asleep to this song countless times and whoever made it I love them because I'll never forget this song ever
Thanks for the great feedback i3l1nd! I really appreciate it and am glad you like this mix so much. It was fun to put together. Take care.
Well, it's me, Steve (again).
My last post was back in May, 2007. I'm the one who had the question about the woman with the German accent in the background. I'm still no closer to solving that one but what I did want to say is that I still love and listen to the Book Of Dreams.
I quite often put it on at night whilst going to sleep. My cats also love it. It sends them to sleep as well which comes in handy at times when they become too boisterous. They say music soothes the savage beast. I guess it's true.
I've since fallen in love with Stars Of The Lid's Artificial Pine Arch Song and drone music in general. Before hearing the Book Of Dreams, I didn't even know drone music existed but I knew I liked it, because as a kid I used to like harmonising chords on my electronic organ. I used to enjoy pressing random keys together to see what sounds I could create.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I'm still around and still listening.
Your biggest fan :)
Steve
steve@foo-unix.org
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