In Praise of Dreams – Jan Garbarek’s first new album in six years - features two musicians with whom the great Norwegian saxophonist shares some history – American-Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian and African-French drummer Manu Katché. Garbarek, Kashkashian and Katché span a lot of idioms between them, but the music sings with a focussed sense of purpose, in the context that Jan has shaped for it. If dreams are movies for the mind, the album is aptly titled - its atmospheres are evocative and decidedly ‘filmic’.

PERSONNEL:

• JAN GARBARAK, saxophones
• KIM KASHKASHIAN, viola
• MANU KATCHÉ, drums

TRACKS:

• 01. As seen from above
• 02. In praise of dreams
• 03. One goes there alone
• 04. Knot of place and time
• 05. If you go far enough
• 06. Scene from afar
• 07. Cloud of unknowing
• 08. Without visible sign
• 09. Iceburn
• 10. Conversation with a stone
• 11. A tale begun