Sentient City, by The Light Dreams

Sentient City

by The Light Dreams

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Michael Reilly Light and shadows: the city vividly represented as an atmospheric instrumental soundscape. The electronic arrangements here suggest the ongoing conflict of our urban spaces, which is particularly relevant as we are now forgetting the meaning of community in our mad rush to embrace technology and maximise profits. Favorite track: First Light.

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1.	Approach 04:00	buy track
2.	Frenetic 03:24	buy track
3.	First Light 04:03	buy track
4.	Lost in the Crowd 03:13	buy track
5.	Hidden Underworld 03:22	buy track
6.	Subculture 03:32	buy track
7.	Fear of the Dark 03:56	buy track
8.	Sentience 03:54	buy track
9.	Under Observation 05:41	buy track
10.	Everywhere and Nowhere 04:43	buy track
11.	Enforcement Mechanism 04:23	buy track
12.	Regeneration 06:32	buy track

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Explore the life of the city. Its vibrant and dynamic sense of activity – people move at ever-increasing speed against the backdrop of its structure and stability. A fast pace and steady rhythms take us through the scenes of a life that is familiar to anyone who knows the city’s world.

But we also face the experience of what lies beneath the comfortable surface – more menacing motifs suggest the dark subcultural existence which poses a threat to our comfort and security. And the forces of command and control, developed through themes of authority and power, are ever present. Those who run the city are watching us too.

All this is resolved as we realise the city has a life of its own – possibly even something that we humble citizens can only glimpse, and never fully understand.

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released January 12, 2015

Composed, performed and produced by Alex Storer.
Text by Richard Hayes.
© Alex Storer 2015

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The Light Dreams Sheffield, UK

Conceptual instrumentals.

The music of The Light Dreams achieves a sense of looking beyond our everyday existence through a fusion of styles, whether taking us to distant planets, exploring time and the world around us or probing the depths of human consciousness.

Alex Storer has been recording as The Light Dreams since 2006, and is honorary musician for the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. ... more

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