The Beautiful Dreams (TBD for short) #2 is out.

TBD has been more akin to an exploration and learning process than to what is currently understood as a musical project. No deadlines, tours, merch, socials are planned, enforced, deemed necessary.

Hence the letting go.

After improvising, I choose parts that strike me as interesting and let them play for a long time while adding discreet, incremental changes to the texture. Then repeat. Stretch. And repeat.

The end result is for me, more than a conversation with myself, like the repetition of a word or short sentence. Repetition in this case does not mean exact, strict, minimalist repetition, but a playful approach to what can change. Words can blur and lose meaning, the stressed syllable or sound can change, the mode of vocalisation can be altered (think speaking with open mouth or without throat sounds)...

Tatiana Rosa was the first listener. Her contribution to this album started during a residency at EMS in Stockholm in December, 2024. She was the resident, I was ~~drooling at the synths~~ visiting. The finishing touches were performed at our own (still mostly conceptual) Chloroform Studios.

The inward-focused, process-heavy element of TBD tends to set this point in time as the end (an end?) for a particular album in the series. In this case, due to the long time between releases, the third volume is already well underway.

We take our time here,

André

TBD#2 release notes