I Can Feel My Dreams

Leipzig-based saxophonist, composer and producer Damian Dalla Torre has been on the improvisation/experimental music scene for some time, working with notables such as Antonia Hausmann and the excellent Brigade Futur 3. Recorded during a university residency in Chile, for I Can Feel My Dreams Torre incorporates field recordings of forests and mountains surrounding Santiago, and makes particular use of the quena, a traditional Andean flute. Intoxicating soundscapes fill this record, and it’s to Torre’s great credit that at no point does anything feel predictable. Strangely beguiling fragments of guitar, flute, harp and piano drift and coalesce, forming shifting patterns over a backdrop of natural sounds. In I Can Feel My Dreams, Torre takes us on a journey as strange, wondrous, revealing and beautiful as any Attenborough documentary. Ambient music for the heart and the head.