Dream Walking [CD]

New Global Ensemble - Dream Walking [CD]

New album from critically acclaimed saxophonist Benjamin Boone and violinist Stefan Poetzsch, with their New Global Ensemble, which combines musicians from the United States, Germany, Ghana, Mexico, and Ireland. Dream Walking is a combination of composition and improvisation with strong rhythms throughout. Both a meditation and a celebration, the intuitively conceptual work of the German and American soul-brothers and their international guests is an important record for fans of global experiments and love for Steve Reich, Jan Garbarek, John Cage, or even Karlheinz Stockhausen. They create fascinating and uplifting soundscapes using a surprising collection of instruments, including violin, saxophone, live electronics, gyil (marimba), mbira (thumb piano), asalato (two shakers connected by a string), and electric guitar. If as a listener you allow yourself to be immersed in it, the music and the emotional depth of its performers will transport you through layers of memory and subconsciousness. As is true throughout, Dream Walking is the ultimate expression of listening, of musicians so tied together as an ensemble that musical ideas pass from one to another effortlessly, creating music that transcends. 01. Invocation 02. Splashes And Waves 03. Irish Incantation 04. Global Interlude 05. Variation On A Ghanaian Theme 06. The Parting Glass 07. Convergence 08. Friday Afternoon In Accra 09. Exultation 10. Dream Walking 11. Exploration 12. Realization