IKSRE

‘Awake Within The Dream – Sound Meditations Vol. 1’ follows the self released ‘Unfurl’ (2019) and ‘Intermission’ ((2020) collections and more recently the remix album ‘Transmission’ and ‘III’ which both came out on Seattle’s Hush Hush Records in 2021.

The new long player features seven new tracks which combine bells, bowls, synths and percussion with sound recordings that were captured on the stolen lands of the Gadubanud, Dja Dja Wurrung, Bunurong and Bidawal people – special places and land that traditionally belong to the Aboriginal population.

‘Awake Within the Dream’ is the next instalment of the Spaciousness series, an on-going collection of records ‘that seek to explore the connections; the overlaps; the roots; and the future of a music variously referred to as ambient, deep listening, new age, fourth world and post classical.’

IKSRE creates something special, power deep and connected and is able to transport the listener to a different plane where normal rules do not apply. The eponymous album closer ‘Awake Within the Dream’ is a live recording with no overdubs and was designed to be enjoyed as close to the experience of live sound bath as possible.