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Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations

Label: Circumvention Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Elemental 1-1 (5:37), Dybbuk (4:09), Dialogic #2 (2:06), Unfinished Business (2:33), Elemental 1-3 (3:12), The Rebbe's Premonition (Doina) (5:04), Grandma Rose's Dreml (Little Dream) (11:21), Elemental 3-1 (3:47), Possession/Corruption of the Vulnerable (6:08), Elemental 1-2 (1:19), Inner Struggle (4:42), Council of the Elders (1:57), Elemental 2-2 (2:49), Dialogic #1 (3:58), Peering In From The Other Side (2:13), Celebration, Transfiguration, And Release Into The Ether (12:00), Elemental 1-5 (1:37)

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Ellen Weller: Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations

Read "Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations" reviewed by Rex Butters

by Rex Butters
April 15, 2005

San Diego's Ellen Weller took time out from the remarkable Trummerflora Collective to create and record Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations, a compelling suite based on medieval Jewish possession myths extrapolated to consider the channeling of musical flow by improvising musicians. Her research team includes Vinny Golia and George Lewis, plus Trummerflora's Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard, ...

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Ellen Weller: Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations

Read "Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
February 28, 2005

With Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations, Ellen Weller has created an album that attempts to unite the mystical with the musical. The liner art has many hieroglyphic-type symbols, as well as spirals and other shapes that feel like they are trying to “cross over to the other side."? Jewish mysticism is clearly referenced as “dybbuk" is ...