A Dreamer`s Tale

© Mike Bradbury 2006

A tale of childhood memories and images in thirteen parts, with acknowledgments to Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Hans Christian Anderson and Baron von Munchausen, amongst others.

Track List

 1.  With Me Now
 2.  A Lost Love
 3. What`s Left of Me
 4. Wednesday Man
 5.  Mitchell`s Boys
 6.  Is There Anybody Out There?
 7.  Ghosts
 8.  Templar Knights
 9.  In Your Arms
10.  The Two Lovers
11.  Summer Heat
12.  Don Quixote
13.  Softly Into Sleep

Click titles above for sound samples and here for lyrics

The tracks on this album are a collection of my favourite themes and ideas, put to music. Like everyone else, I have childhood memories of books I have read, or that were read to me.

The Two Lovers is a story imagined in the style of Hans Christian Anderson, set in deepest Russia, when two inseparable lovers ice-skate through the night and are turned into ice statues. When the sun rises in the morning, they melt and become part of the lake itself.

Templar Knights and Don Quixote remain two of my favourite themes, and so too the age-old question of ‘are we alone in the universe?’ on Track 6.

Also, staying with the subject of ghosts, a musician friend of many years finds that however many times he moves house, there are always ghosts. Do they ‘move’ with him, or are they projections of his mind?

Wednesday Man is about a 30-something bachelor who looks forward to the one day a week when he takes his girlfriend out. Unfortunatley he doesn`t realise that she has several lovers.

A Lost Love comes from a painting I have at home entitled ‘Off’, by Edward Blair Leighton, which depicts the break-off of an 18th century engagement.

Mitchell’s Boys is my homage to the heroes who flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during WWII and saved this green and pleasant land for you and me.

Mike Bradbury.
 

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Currently playing - Track 13, ‘Softly Into Sleep’