Bill Wells, Norman Blake & Aby Vulliamy perform Dreams ’24 / ’25

plus support from David Swan

On Dreams ’24 / ’25, Scottish composer Bill Wells turns his nocturnal imagination into a sequence of delicate musical miniatures. The album brings together 24 short pieces, most of them under two minutes, unfolding in just under half an hour like a quietly drifting dream diary. The album is split into two parts. On the Dreams 2024 side, Norman Blake lends his voice to Wells’ dream-born melodies. For Dreams 2025, Aby Vulliamy takes over vocal duties. The songs themselves are born directly from dreams. Wells wakes from the dream, records it on his mobile and later shapes it into a brief, lyrical composition. Dreams ’24 / ’25 is not a collection of fully formed pop songs, but rather a series of fleeting emotional snapshots: soft voices, simple motifs, and melodies that appear and vanish before they can fully settle. It is an album that rewards close listening, inviting the listener into a private, half-lit space somewhere between memory and imagination.

David Swan presents a pared-back preview of his latest project… David is a pianist/multi-instrumentist/composer based between Glasgow and London. His playing and music draw on varied and contrasting influences - jazz, classical, folk, pop, musical theatre, minimalist, maximalist - across acoustic and electronic spheres. His previous work in bands saw him listed as “One To Watch” by Jazzwise, appear on The Guardian’s “New Artists of 2021” and “Best Jazz on Bandcamp…” (with Burnheart), and reach the finals of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards. Here he plays a selection from his new band’s first project, Sunshine Guitar Music - small melodies meet a big sense of togetherness and contemplation, framed by lots and lots of guitars and stylistic nods to the California sound and music from other warm places.

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