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...
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).
Read lyrics
and commentary on the songs.
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...
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.
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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