The Dream My Bones Dream

by Eiko Ishibashi

The Dream My Bones Dream cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 July 2018
  • Label: Drag City
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 42:43
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Prompted by the discovery of her grandfather's hidden history as a laborer in Manchuria during World War II, the Japanese composer constructed a conceptual work examining historical trauma and memory. The arrangements incorporate jazz instrumentation, field recordings, and ethereal pop melodies.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, avant-garde, ambient, japanese, experimental, piano, soundtrack, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Prologue: Hands On The Mouth (5:13)
  2. Agloe (5:50)
  3. Iron Veil (5:21)
  4. Silent Scrapbook (3:50)
  5. A Ghost In a Train, Thinking (5:54)
  6. The Dream My Bones Dream (4:29)
  7. Tunnels To Nowhere (3:36)
  8. To The East (3:58)
  9. Epilogue: Innisfree (4:28)

Credits

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