Dreaming With The Lights On

Re-Ghoster Extended

You’re approaching the region where gravity feels tampered with; “Dreaming With The Lights On” is to drift into a zone where bodies and objects appear to have slipped into a dream’s editing room and reassembled themselves according to priorities still unfamiliar.
The music begins long before the sound does—inside a suspended brightness, a sky that hums with the possibility of transformation. The listener’s mind becomes a surface onto which impossible gestures imprint themselves: limbs blending with other limbs, forms collapsing into hybrid contours, and vertical structures hanging like instruments from a dimension that refuses to close fully.

Performed live at Archipel Festival, “Dreaming With The Lights On” operates like the sonic equivalent of a floating, warped tableau. The ensemble doesn’t merely play the score; it bends around it, leaking into its margins. Field’s composition offers coordinates but not instructions—an energetic lattice that encourages strange entanglements, acoustic grafting, and sudden shifts of density. What results is a kind of audio-organism, mutating in real time, reshaping itself the way figures and objects fuse and distort in a dream-state that should know it is awake.

In this heightened condition, sound behaves as if it has its own musculature. Gestures stretch, fold, and tangle; pulses climb upward like suspended cables; resonances pool and merge with uncanny elasticity. Textures cling on and then peel away, leaving behind residue—scrapes of voice, ripples of breath, mechanical glimmers. You might feel these sonic shapes leaning against you: intimate, unstable, oddly tender, and slightly alarming. Familiar signals appear briefly before dissolving into something more speculative: a sub-reality flickering at the edge of perception, an alternate version of “now” brushing against the present.

What emerges is not a narrative but a state—a lucid dream conducted under full illumination, where everything is visible yet nothing behaves as expected.
Dreaming With the Lights On moves toward its own logic with unwavering confidence. It makes sense the way dreams do: through atmosphere, mutation, and a peculiar brightness that feels both inviting and slightly dangerous.
This is still The Style.
It’s still the way it has to be!

Credits

Recorded live at Archipel Festival by Jean-Baptiste Bosshard April 7th 2023
Mixed and mastered by Nicolas Field at KSL, Geneva
Produced by Konnekt — www.konnekt.co
Covert art by Fritz Welch
Layout by Alternative

Thanks

Thanks to Archipel for the opportunity, Jean-Baptiste Bosshard for making it sound great, Marion & Sixto at Cave12 for the rehearsal time, the dreamers and all of you who were there.