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Dream Walking by Benjamin Boone

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Album Title: Dream Walking
One World Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 47:07:28

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About the Album

It’s hard to think of anything more important these days than remembering that we are all one human race, a reminder given to us in stunning fashion on Dream Walking, the debut album of the New Global Ensemble. Sprouted from saxophonist Benjamin Boone’s Fulbright fellowships in Ghana and Ireland, Dream Walking manages, through the emotional depth of its performers, to raise the questions we are all asking: Why am I here? What is my purpose? How can we unite, rather than divide?

 

Dream Walking combines the talents of six musicians from the United States, Germany, Ghana, Mexico, and Ireland into a cohesive whole. Saxophonist Benjamin Boone and violinist/violist Stefan Poetzsch, who have collaborated as a duo for over 30 years, surrender any need for primacy to the overall goal: creating fascinating and uplifting soundscapes with a surprising collection of instruments that includes gyil (marimba), mbira, prempensua (two different lammellophones), asalato (two shakers connected by a string), live electronics, voice, electric guitar, and many others. This mélange of electronic and electric and acoustic has the effect of both grounding the album here on Earth and sending it soaring into the stars, or even into dreams.

 

The entire album is intended to be heard as a multi-movement composition. “Each track has a story and feeling that naturally flows into the next. Sounds from different times and traditions all mix from one track to the other, and also blend within tracks. For example, Óscar Mascareñas' singing is sonically like Irish chant music, or even the sound of Baroque singing, and we recontextualize it by having him sing over modern sounds like pulsating processed guitar loops, processed violin, and jazz-influenced saxophone,” says Poetzsch.

“The creation of each tune was a personal and musical journey for each of us. We had to let go of our egos, and just listen and be open to discovering each other. We had to just be,” adds Boone. In composing each tune, we agreed on a basic framework, sound, form, or emotion, and then we relied on our empathy, compassion, and intuition as we travelled into what felt like a dreamscape.”

Tracks

01) Invocation 2:48; 02) Splashes and Waves 3:49; 03) Irish Incantation 3:43; 04) Global Interlude 2:54; 05) Variation On A Ghanaian Theme 4:08; 06) The Parting Glass 3:43; 07) Convergence 3:32; 08) Friday Afternoon In Accra 7:37; 09) Exultation 3:44; 10) Dream Walking 3:42; 11) Exploration 1:37; 12) Realization 5:42

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Additional Personnel

THE NEW GLOBAL ENSEMBLE IS: Benjamin Boone (US), Saxophones; Stefan Poetzsch (D), Violin, Viola, Live Electronics; Aaron Bebe Sukura (GH), Gyil, Mbira; Baffour Awuah Kyeremateng (GH), Voice, Asalato, Prempensua; Óscar Mascareñas (MX/IE), Voice Artist, Live Electronics; Anthony Monahan (IE), Electric Guitar, Live Electronics;

Date featured

January 30, 2026

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