Replicant's Dream (inspired by Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?")

Описание

Track from the new CD "The Dowland Shores of Philip K. Dick's Universe".

Album info page: http://leventeth.wix.com/thedowlandshores
Bandcamp release: https://levente.bandcamp.com/album/the-dowland-shores-of-philip-k-dicks-universe
Amazon CD: https://www.amazon.com/Dowland-Shores-Philip-Dicks-Universe/dp/B00IWQ0UUO
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/the-dowland-shores/id1135844998

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has a subtle undercurrent: can something, seen as inhuman, be more human than we, who are actually dehumanised by the world we created? The music is inspired by the shift from something apparently quasi-alien to the very human longing for postponing life’s end.

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was an American writer, whose works, exploring philosophical, political and theological themes, have moved from a rather unique corner of “science fiction” into mainstream (including cult film adaptations like Blade Runner and Minority Report) and into courses on literature.

In Dick’s exquisitely complex, often disturbing (and disturbingly prophetic) universe there are numerous veiled or direct references to John Dowland, the English Renaissance composer.

While navigating through Dick’s unique and turbulent world, these references for me were akin to encountering safe shores of humanity, of familiar and cosy reality, where one could stop for a moment among the many turbulent flows and currents.

This album is about those shores - the human, sometimes background or secondary, stories and undercurrents in Dick’s ever-changing labyrinthine universe.