A dream that starts where it ends. A dream with a twist. A dream that dreams you back. A dream that only makes sense when you're in it.
Each side of this album is meant to be a continuous listening experience. However, a few songs have been extracted as singles as well on the album "Messages"
Mobius Dream is the debut album from Portland, Oregon-based artist, Dubliminal.
Dubliminal paints lush instrumental dreamscapes where sparkling guitar floats above deep, melodic, dub-inspired bass lines. Electronic elements fill the spaces inbetween with ambient textures. Live drums mix with synth rhythms.
The result is a compelling blend of live and electronic sounds, where dark dream-like textures meet solid, grounding rhythmic grooves. The songs take their time unfold slowly and invite you in. The patient listener is rewarded, transported.
Dubliminal is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and composer Eric Schopmeyer has been self-producing and releasing music for two decades from his home in Portland, Oregon.
His last project was a five volume set of long form Sleep Music compositions, released over a period of three years--albums which, if successful will never be heard in their entirety. Elements of this atmospheric, trance-inducing music have carried over into Dubliminal.
The new album exists in two forms:
Mobius Dream presents two long "sides" which are composed as a continuous listening experience, each song blending seamlessly into the next. In that form, the album is like a Mobius strip starting with the same sound it ends with but in reverse, the prelude conceived as a kind of dark, mirrored twin of the coda, each containing reverse elements of the other. These two pieces bear little stylistic resemblance to the songs they bookend but they set the mood and provide emotional context. The coda eventually dissolves into an extended hypnotic soundscape that slowly fades away and puts the listener to sleep.
Messages presents five songs extracted from those medleys and presented on their own in a different order along with one bonus outtake song.
Dubliminal’s sound draws from many disparate influences: Talk Talk, King Tubby, Felt, The Police, Thievery Corporation, Nik Bartsch, Steve Reich, Bill Frisell, Jakob Bro, Ben Monder, David Rawlings, Johnny Marr, Morton Feldman, minimalism, jazz, reggae, rock, electronica, etc.
credits
released March 1, 2021
All songs written and performed by Dubliminal.
Cover collage by Quinn Schopmeyer.
Special thanks to Jordan Leff, Steven Drizos, Rob Bartleson, Mari Schay and Molly Nearman.
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