First posted on Mark Is Cranky:
Dreams are funny things. Everybody has them. Whether they're remembered or not is a different story. My dad, for instance, claims to have remembered only one dream over his entire lifetime and that was during a minute or so time segment when his heart raced out of control during a medical procedure. They had to bring him back with the paddles. He dreamt of being chased.
I fall somewhere in the middle. Dreams do happen. I'm aware that they've gone on...but unless something very bizarre occurs overnight, they just dissipate like so much brain mist.
Unless: I'm very, very tired. If a long and particularly difficult week passes and I sort of "fall into" Friday night then there's a good chance that I'll have one of my all-night dreams. These things leave me feeling like I've watched several televisions, DVD players and stereos simultaneously over a six-hour period. I actually get the sensation that all of the dreams have overlapped. Intimate conversations are interrupted by heavy-duty construction vehicles (loaded with Amish woman wearing wetsuits) driving through my living room and up the stairs to attend the string quartet recital scheduled in the guest bedroom for 7:30 PM. It's nonstop, surreal action. I don't try to interpret any of this mess, figuring that it's just the overloaded brain shedding excess mental dandruff.
So, whether you remember your dreams or not, in black & white or color, normal or just plain wacky...the music created by the ensemble that is KTU can provide the score. At the very least, it contains many musical parallels to my own sleepy brain freakouts.
KTU is Kimmo Pohjonen on accordion and voice plus Samuli Kosminen on samples, Trey Gunn (formerly of King Crimson) on Warr guitar and Pat Mastelotto (of Kind Crimson) on 'rhythmic devices'. Together they produce music that manages to be both soothing and sinister. Honestly, how often do you see the words 'sinister' and 'accordion' in such close proximity?
Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
Good Post again Mark -
Wow - Sinister Amish, wet accordians, wait - Strike that - Reverse it.
So, it's a sinister cabal of Amish women in wetsuits, playing accordians, right?
Sweet Dreams are made of this, I think.
I was never real familiar w/King Crimson until a friend played them for me. So, you're telling me that KTU will knock my socks off? Cool.
2 - Mark Saleski
amish women in wetsuits....now if only i was good at photoshop...