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Dreamchild creates images for your ears. This is tone poetry with a sometimes sharp, modern edge: moody, aery and eerie - and often dark.

These sounds, by voice and instrument, wash over you with an almost cinematic vividness, taking you places known and unknown. Dreamchild plays a soundtrack to your ethereal nightmares and fever dreams.

 
 

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The Latest Update from the Studio and Beyond:

Frank & Cheryl of Dreamchild are pleased to announce that you can recline luxuriously, absinthe in hand, surrounded by the sounds of disturbingly decadent derangement – for Dreamchild’s latest CD, Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter, has arrived at last, released by Absinthe Soundworks.

On this brand-new two disc release, Dreamchild invites you on an unexpected journey. This dark trip is possibly harrowing, often enthralling and always wildly dramatic, amply daubed with gore. Meet murderous & dangerous women, intoning seductive and sinister soliloquies. Experience unbridled madness, wistful melancholy, and impassioned, operatic decadence...all awash in mesmeric and scintillating soundscapes.  
 
Take the twisted, black iron key in your trembling hand – then open and enter this theatre of blood…

Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter is now available for purchase at CDBABY.com and for download at iTunes.com, at Digstation.com-and you can hear sound samples on those sites as well. The CD can also be purchased at the infamous Projekt.com/Darkwave site. In addiition, you can procure your copy at various locations of Newbury Comics (in Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, and Providence, RI) - and at other fine and discerning venues.

Of course, you can also send your email correspondence directly to dreamchild@dreamchildmusic.com to purchase CDs from the band, via PayPal. As with all Dreamchild artwork, the multi-panel CD package for the new release has been created by the amazingly talented Wendy Wetherbee of Wetherbee Creative and Web, and must be seen in full to be believed!

The band was honoured to have been nominated as one of WBZ-TV's A List of the best bands in Boston for 2007. But wait, there's more...

Dreamchild has been chosen #2 of the 2009 Top 5 Best Local Bands in Boston by Boston College's Top of the Heights – the only Dark Ethereal/Darkwave/Goth band chosen for this honor – let alone the only creepily theatrical and Grand Guignol-esque group!  Kudos also to the very talented and ‘Goth friendly’  Humanwine, who placed 3rd (and whom Dreamchild has enjoyed sharing a stage with in the past). Click on the TOP OF THE HEIGHTS to see Dreamchild's page, and to learn more about the other winners. In appropriately over-the-top, knife-in-the-heartfelt gratitude, Dreamchild wishes to thank all of those who voted for the music of macabre madness and melancholic excess.

Dreamchild also appears on a delightfully dark new compilation of Boston bands, just released in 2009 by Decorative Records, evocatively entitled Sky So Grey . Conceived in 2007 by Mathew Fuller (formerly of Seven Sunless Days and Scissorkiss), the compilation was produced by Kelly Godshall and John DeGregorio, both of Amber Spyglass. Artists on the Sky So Grey compilation include:
Amber Spyglass, Lucretia's Daggers, Melt, The Milling Gowns, Seven Sunless Days, Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, Thylacine, Twelfth of Never, Ultra Plush, and other local luminaries in the dark music scene. Discerning listeners will note that Dreamchild’s Ave Maria on the compilation is an alternate version to the one appearing on the band’s new 2-disc release, Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter. The compilation will be available at Dreamchild shows, as well at at various venues.

You can also obtain the third CD, if you haven't already. Listen...and you can hear Lullabies for the Dead come wafting through the dark & windy night, inspiring ethereal nightmares and fever dreams. Their third release, the follow up to the critically acclaimed La Fée Verte, is now for sale at Newbury Comics and is also at CDBABY.com and Projekt.com.

Now there is another place to visit Dreamchild... go to myspace.com to see what's new there...

At the next Dreamchild show, don't forget to check out "Visions of the Dead": the first two releases in the limited edition series of photographic postcards by Cheryl of Père- Lachaise cemetery in Paris. They are available in sets of 8 cards for a limited time...

And of course...Dreamchild T shirts are available:

Both unisex and fitted women's Ts, in basic black (of course) with a special version of the purple band logo (created especially for these shirts). Email for more information on how to obtain one (or come to a show to choose one for yourself).

Learn more about La Fée Verte
Read lyrics and commentary on the songs.

Listen online...

You can find 24 song samples from the latest double CD at CDBABY.com and Digstation.com, and most importantly, you can order Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter, Lullabies for the Dead and La Fée Verte from CDBaby. All three CDs can also be found at Projekt.com (Gates to the Sea is now sold out everywhere and is officially out of print, making the extant copies collector's items!). And visit myspace.com to listen to and capture more fleeting dreams and haunting nightmares in sonic form...


Gig news:

A suitably splendid and appropriately theatrical venue has presented iitself...so, the much anticipated and awaited celebration of Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter will indeed happen! It will be held at the marvelous Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA (right off of Massachusetts Avenue) on Thursday evening, the 27th of August. This is but to whet your dark appetites - much more about this exciting event will follow ere long...

Meanwhile, prior to that show, Dreamchild will appear live on Tuft University's WMFO 91.5 on "On the Town with Mikey D", Wednesday evening, August 19th.

Stay tuned for more macabre details in the coming weeks...

Also, do not forget to visit the My Space site, www.myspace.com/dreamchild1 for the latest updates on the band's dark doings.


Read the Latest Reviews:

A rather effusive (if eccentrically entertaining) review of Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter by Doug Sloan appeared in the April 2009 edition of Metronome Magazine.


Read a translation of the lyrical Italian review of Dreamchild's Ave Maria on the Sky So Grey Compilation by Nicola Tenani , in the April 2009 Darkroom Magazine.

 

 
 

 



 

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