Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, by The Transcendence Orchestra

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

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	1.	The sleep of reason 03:56
	2.	Leave it Terry, it’s not worth it! 06:01
	3.	Open up your gate and tell you 04:38
	4.	The boundaries dissolve 03:31
	5.	170 is greater than 260 05:11
	6.	The hills are alive 05:53
	7.	Serviceable villain 04:07
	8.	An ancient city and several nuclear explosions 09:38
	9.	Inner life 06:57
	10.	We don't know 07:40

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"For the unfamiliar, The Transcendence Orchestra is the duo of British Murder Boy and tQ fave Anthony Child (aka Surgeon) and Daniel Bean. Their music they make resists easy categorisation, especially on their latest. It’s definitely psychedelic, but a bit too prickly for most ambient tags to stick, a bit too gnarled for new age, a bit too grotty to properly fit in with the modern classical crowd. Given this nebulous state of affairs, our boys naturally found a happy home with Editions Mego prior to the tragic death of its founder Peter Rehberg, releasing three ‘proper’ studio LPs through the label. For this album, their fourth in five years, they’ve opted to go it alone via their Old Technology label, which I think makes sense. This record, their best by some margin, feels like the start of a new leg in the band’s journey.

Even fans of The Transcendence Orchestra’s previous work will be surprised by how incredibly tactile Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents is. This is an album you feel as much as hear, setting the group apart from a sea of ambient-leaning Cluster enthusiasts armed with modular rigs and microphone arrays. The bass tones in particular are properly, properly heavy and Earth-en and stoned, holding fast to amplifier worship and soundsystem culture. Here, Child and Bean lay claim to a very particular blending of both ‘low’ and high-minded aesthetics that hits you just as hard in the chest as it does in the brain. These tracks stick in the way Kevin Richard Martin's recent recordings under his own name do, or the way Mark Dicker’s do. It all boils down to a similar combination of patient headiness and unconventional beauty and rough tactility, to the clear presence of gut and heart at play in the compositions."

Bernie Brooks, The Quietus
thequietus.com/articles/32466-the-transcendence-orchestra-dreams-waking-thoughts-and-incidents-review

Nothing untoward happened.

Actually that's not true, many unexpected things happened that can't really be described, not in words at least. Maybe communicated in a look, through touch or some kind of psychic pulse. Nobody got hurt though, quite the opposite.

If you'd passed us by you wouldn't have noticed anything. We keep a low profile. We might have seen you. We might have see you in your entirety or perhaps a silhouette, a glimpse of an essence. On the other hand, at that point we might not have understood what existence means. Or we might have understood all of it at the same time. Your passing by being merely a brief glimmer in a torrent, a miniscule fluctuation. For all intents and purposes imperceptible. That's OK.

We lost some details, we left soft debris in our heads, to be arranged and processed later on. We knew what we saw and felt and we'll know it again when we return. None more real. We were pinned to the earth and free to go anywhere we wanted. Anywhere, if we dared. We walked through lands suddenly divined, then everything faded away.

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released November 18, 2022

Written and produced by Anthony Child & Daniel Bean
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Cut by Lupo
Cover print by Trudy Creen 2022
Photo by Mark Nicholas
Layout by Emile Facey
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