After creating and mastering a short lived but very seedy club persona, Marcel Proust went on to write many sentences; he very famously wrote, “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” Then he went in search of more dreams. Dreams are the images, thoughts, and feelings experienced while asleep, associated in particular with rapid eye movement (R.E.M.). The contents and biological purposes of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history.
Raving and dreaming.
Bruno and the Dreamies is the product of a nightclub boy chasing his R.E.M. thoughts. The Chicago Reader described him as “the Psychedelic Furs crossed with a K-Records four-track project.” Sounds pretty dreamy, hmm? When I saw him live with Bunny Rabbit… it reminded me of Mediterranean Gypsies fused with Balearic Beat. He even wore a glowing, neon, Coronae Romanae, which basically sealed the show as something other-worldly.
At the show I experienced what Alistair McCartney describes as “dream drool.” McCartney explains that
“dream drool is what streams out of boys’ mouths while they are dreaming. It is mostly clear. In Communist countries, where boys dream very little, dream drool is considered a delicacy. It is very expensive, like truffles or caviar. The most prized dream drool comes from Romanian and Albanian boys. In these countries, they have special farms where women in polka-dotted headed scarves grab boys by their necks and force-feed them dream. But in the West, where boys dream regularly and freely, and where there is an excess of dream, dream drool is cheap and plentiful. Little children love it. Old ladies stand all night over boys and scoop up the drool with silver teaspoons, making sure they catch it before it falls onto the pillow. They sell the stuff at church fetes, in empty jam jars, along with those gold slabs of toffee in pleated cupcake holders.”
Long live excess!
Bruno and the Dreamies will release the track “Blue Moon” on an upcoming space-themed compilation released by K48. Watch the video for “Blue Moon” here:
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Bruno and the Dreamies – Dreams
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