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Songs We Sang In Our Dreams

by LET IT COME DOWN

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postthispostthat kramer never got the credit he deserved, perhaps he did really, perhaps overall he did. now it's full circle most music affictionado's know who he is i suppose, but did everyone listen properly ? kramer's music works like a moebius band, this song for example, 'fingers' , a little like one of my faves, 'free love messes up my life', a short ditty that i could talk about for days, very clever, and a nice album, - as with all his work, listen close, kramer makes music like no one else. J. London. Favorite track: Fingers.
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agutterfan A superb debut LP, dreamy acoustic ballads mixed with ambient instrumentals & neo-psychedelic tracks (check the Indian raga of opener "Moonlight"). Xan Tyler has a beautiful voice. Immersive and entrancing. Favorite track: Vicky.
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112369 Fuckin' brilliant from start to finish, everyone should hear this, when you hear it once you will want it again and again. X Favorite track: Fingers.
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    "SONGS WE SANG IN OUR DREAMS" is the debut release from artist/producer KRAMER's collaborative recording project, featuring vocalist XAN TYLER.

    "...There is the mood of loss, some of the greatest devastation of the long career of Kramer, the architect and principal songwriter, made perfect in the dazzling and understated performance of Xan Tyler, you can imagine listening to this album while incrementally sinking into sand, you can imagine listening to this album while gangrene takes away an extremity, you can imagine listening to this album while watching a slow motion factory explosion, you can imagine listening to this album as an autocrat seizes a nation, you can imagine listening to this album as a python devours a small child, you can imagine listening to this album as the subway train you’re sitting in enters a wormhole, you can imagine listening to this album as your spouse turns into a wolverine, you can imagine listening to this album as you begin to paint a chapel ceiling using only your eyelashes. It would be the very best album for any of these things. And because all of this is true, this is the very best representation of your dreams since, well, Roy Orbison."

    -- Rick Moody

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1.
Moonlight 04:05
2.
Monday 06:14
3.
One Moon 01:51
4.
Forget 03:49
5.
Pennies 04:52
6.
Two Dreams 02:05
7.
Vicky 04:22
8.
Fingers 04:40
9.
Three Wishes 01:53
10.
Tomorrrow 04:42
11.
Uh-Oh 06:30
12.
Four Hands 02:50

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"The aesthetic fulcrum of LET IT COME DOWN is the question of TIME itself, balancing the reckonings of Memory, Identity, and Love;
the three furnaces into which all things are dropped. Songs We Sang In Our Dreams wails from the quivering retreat unto sleep,
where the soul does its most vital work. it beckons like a drug, and holds our feet to the fires of Universal Loss, perhaps never more than
right now, in these most troubling times. Is it simply the Dream of Love we feel collapsing all around us, or is it the physical world itself?"
-Kramer, April 2020

"Songs We Sang In Our Dreams" is oneiric by design, and therefore like one of the very greatest pop songs ever written, “In Dreams,” by Roy Orbison, the album not only wants to speak of dreams, it wants to speak from inside, to recreate the das unheimliche of the oneiric; in some ways this is beautifully obvious, the suite-like nature of the album, the gliding from one mood to another, the continuousness of the whole, the jump-cut like sudden eruption of new textures, the mystery of the psychedelic here, the appearance of drones and the sort of echo of Indian classical music that is a feature of the half-remembered or full-body psychedelic, but also because the psychedelic is from a dream that you dreamed. These are obvious resonances. And then there is the dream work as Freud described herein, the thing made of condensation and displacement. The songs sung in our dreams? Of what would these consist? Of feeling, above all, about the paralyzing clarity of emotions in dreams, or the unpredictability of feelings, how they can cycle through a whole buffet in a dream, and how the meaning of these feelings is sometimes uncanny, or misaligned with the manifest content of the dream, and how the meanings are buried underneath these totems of significance—this item right in front of us, this obelisk, seems to mean something, it’s a veritable household item, but why does it cause so much inconsolable weeping? Only concentration, and improvisation, and patience yield the answer, and Songs We Sang In Our Dreams invites this interpretive zeal, in its manner, both plain and considered, both obvious and devious, both bluntly sad and stylized, both borrowed and new, both song-oriented and not, both rock and roll and not, both masculine and feminine, both virtuosic and simple, and made (and released) in collaboration and via unalloyed isolation. Where did Kramer find the excellent Xan Tyler? Hidden in plain sight somewhere, making some completely different and more dance-oriented music, here employed to sing melodies completely unignorable and perspicacious, the lyrics come out of her mouth in a way that makes them into objects rather than words, the kinds of things we might see on a billboard in the process of being repainted..." - Rick Moody

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released June 12, 2020

KRAMER - all instruments & backing vocals
XAN TYLER - lead vocals

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by KRAMER (2018-2019) in Florida, Amsterdam, and Fife County Scotland.

Front Cover art by ED RUSCHA
Back Cover photo by WILLIAM GEDNEY

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The debut LP by LET IT COME DOWN is a collaborative recording project by Kramer featuring vocalist Xan Tyler.

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