DREAMSCAPES - black is the colour (Single)

DREAMSCAPES are one of those bands that feel less like a project and more like a meeting point. Bringing together six distinct voices from the London jazz scene, Julien Durand, Cenk Esen, Lucy Anne Daniels, George Garford, John Jones and Jack Robson, the group sit at the sharp edge of UK jazz, where improvisation, groove and experimentation collide. Their collective credits stretch from free jazz extremity to neo soul and electronic leaning fusion, and that openness is central to everything they do.

Their new album Tales of a Wanderer (out April 17th) expands DREAMSCAPES’ hybrid sound into something deeper and more immersive. Ambient passages melt into rock driven climaxes and electronic textures, all threaded together by space. Space for improvisation, for risk, for moments that feel discovered rather than designed. Led by composer and producer Julien Durand, the record nods to prog rock influences while holding firmly onto jazz’s sense of freedom.

Much of the album’s emotional core was shaped during Durand’s solo travels through Brazil, where distance, uncertainty and self reliance fed directly into the music. Those ideas come into focus on the single “wanderer”, with Lucy Anne Daniels’ lyrics tracing the uneasy but ultimately affirming journey of standing alone and trusting your instincts. Rather than celebrating isolation, Tales of a Wanderer finds beauty in self knowledge and invites listeners to slow down, listen deeply and experience the album as a complete world, best entered from beginning to end.