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    Blue Dream

    Orenda Fink

    Blue Dream

    $18.99 $19.98

    LBJ-206-1

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    LP PACKAGING NOTES:

    • Ivory (color) vinyl
    • Vinyl pressed at GZ
    • Includes download card
    "Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living? Tibetans have unbelievably fascinating answers to that. This is what I’m studying because my dog died.”  
    -Laurie Anderson




    Orenda was sent this quote by her friend Nina Barnes after Wilson, Orenda’s dog of 16 years, died. That year she found herself on a deeply personal search for the meaning of death. Pieces of answers, coded in riddle, came to her in dreams. Her dreams began to tell a story - about life and death and the afterlife, reality, and the fine line between the conscious and subconscious world. 

She then spent the next year understanding the experience and filtering it through the musical inspirations of Smog, Violetta Parra, and Kate Bush to craft Blue Dream. The album truly came together at ARC in Omaha, NE with the help of producers Ben Brodin and Todd Fink (The Faint), along with drummer Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans, R.E.M., King Crimson).

    Lead single “Ace of Cups” starts the album off by using the Tarot symbol of attunement and spirituality to explore the interconnectedness with the world and humanity that even death cannot undo.

    The haunting “Holy Holy” examines them directly with lines "We come into this world all alone/and we leave with not much more” and “I lay in bed/collect all my dreams/then I pay/someone to read them to me/the simple ones are just as they seem/but open your eyes/and they say so much more.”

    Whereas “All Hearts Will Beat Again” displays ideas Orenda came to understand upon reflection in lines “It's a sign in the eyes/something in your smile/it's a nod and a wave from the darkness/but our hearts will beat again/and the love we gave will come back/but i don't know where or when.”

    Writing the album allowed Orenda to contemplate the experiences that precipitated it and explore new perspectives gained over the past year. This process left her with the belief that we can only be truly healed if we find our "interior God." How do you find your interior God? There are many ways, but she believes one of them is through dreams. Dreams being the closest way to have a direct experience with the all-knowing past, present, and future.

    Release Date: August 19th, 2014

    TRACK LIST
    01. Ace of Cups
    02. You Can Be Loved
    03. This Is a Part of Something Greater
    04. You Are a Mystery
    05. Holy Holy
    06. Blue Dream
    07. Sweet Disorder
    08. Poor Little Bear
    09. Darkling
    10. All Hearts Will Beat Again

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