PRESS RELEASE

8th March 1994

BURIED DREAMS 
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by 

DAVID TOOP & MAX EASTLEY
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Beyond Records 
CD Catalogue Number RBADCD6
MC Catalogue Number RBADMC6
Release date  April 18th 1994

Create a world, something like SlimCity but richer and stranger.
Hold it in the imagination, populate it with flora and fauna,
add human life. Like a novel, develop it over time into a living
breathing creation. But think of this world evolving as you
sleep, gradually moving out of your control as it forms a life
of its own. You begin to hear voices in your head, sounds you
never heard before, hybrid, secret languages. There are rituals
in progress, cultural mutations, landscapes of dreams. Faint
echoes remain of the world you seeded, but most of what you hear
and visualise is disturbingly new, unreal, unknown.

This is BURIED DREAMS, a collage of layered atmospheres, dub
echoes, invented instruments, hi-tech and lo-tech source,
complete with a book of complementary images and 12 short
stories. A soundtrack for life in the imagination. Ambient
through a lens, darkly.  Food for night drives through Babylon,
dark spaces, long-haul flights to Borneo, Cameroon or Java.

BURIED DREAMS was recorded in three days but worked and
re-worked over three years. The source material for this 53
minute jump-cut composition includes tapes recorded in the
Amazon jungles and the American deep south; invented instruments
operated by weather,  electro-mechanical and human power;
customised and rare electronics; feedback and distortion;
computer programming  and obscure samples from one of the most
extensive sound archives of arcana in the known world.

As Mixmaster Morris said in response to the album, "Not for the
faint hearted"

Composed, played, assembled and produced by David Toop and Max
Eastley, BURIED DREAM was mixed by David Toop and
recorded/digitally edited by Dave Hunt, one time engineer for
Adrian Sherwood  and David Cunningham. The first recording by
David Toop and Max Eastley was released in 1975 when they
occupied a side each of  "New and Re-Discovered Musical
Instruments", the  fourth release on Brian Eno's Obscure label.
In 1993 they toured Japan, giving performances and lectures
together.

MAX EASTLEY'S work has been categorised as sound sculpture,
kinetic art, systems, minimal and environmental music,
architecture and a ritual theatre of automata. His installations
in  solo and group exhibitions include the Paris Bienalle, Echo:
Images of Sound in Eindhoven, Arts Electronica festival in Linz,
Aztec art and technology exhibition in Japan. His work was
documented is a 26 minute film for Channel 4: The Clocks of the
Midnight Hours.

DAVID TOOP is a musician and writer who has worked with John
Zorn, Prince Fari, Flying Lizards, Frank Chickens, Orphy
Robinson, Bow Gamelan founder Paul Burwell, Steven Berkoff, and
Japanese Butoh Dancer Mitsutaka Ishii. His book "The Rap
Attack", was published in 1984. In 1978 he recorded Yanomami
shamanistic ceremonies  in the southern Venezuelan rainforest,
and released these recordings on his own label. He is currently
writing a history of ambient and environmental music.

CD release includes a 20 page booklet of visuals and stories.

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