Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations (album)

"Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations" is a 2012 album by Chad Wackerman. Allan plays guitar throughout, as well as playing the StarrSwitch on some tracks. The StarrSwitch is a MIDI controller made by StarrLabs, https://www.starrlabs.com/

Track listing

Chad Wackerman: Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations (D) (YT)

Track Number	Title	Composer	Length
1	Glass Lullaby	[Composer Name]	[Length]
2	A New Day	[Composer Name]	[Length]
3	Bent Bayou	[Composer Name]	[Length]
4	Star Gazing	[Composer Name]	[Length]
5	Edith Street	[Composer Name]	[Length]
6	The Fifth	[Composer Name]	[Length]
7	Waterways	[Composer Name]	[Length]
8	The Billows	[Composer Name]	[Length]
9	Monsieur Vintage	[Composer Name]	[Length]
10	Rapid Eye Movement	[Composer Name]	[Length]
11	Brain Funk	[Composer Name]	[Length]
12	A Spontaneous Story	[Composer Name]	[Length]
13	Two For Ya	[Composer Name]	[Length]
14	Invisible	[Composer Name]	[Length]

Harnessing momentum (Innerviews 2008)

You’ve recently been more active in terms of touring and working on new material than you’ve been in years. Why did you pause your career and what’s behind the resurgence of activity?

Things were going well until 1999 when I went through a divorce and that changed everything. I lost my studio and had no way of working, so I was temporarily displaced for the first year or so. I was living with friends, floating around, and things ground to a halt. I went into a big downward slide and didn’t do anything. I wasn’t interested in playing. Meeting Leonardo Pavkovic, who runs the MoonJune label, was the biggest thing in getting my career going again. He’s been amazing in helping me manage a lot of things. I started touring again during the last two years and I’m going to have to tell Leonardo to stop, otherwise he’ll keep me on the road forever. [laughs] I also started working again on two album projects that were never finished. They should both come out in 2008. I also have a few tracks that I’ll be finishing for Chad Wackerman’s new solo album. That one has been going on for awhile too. I did quite a few tracks for it in Australia around the time of the All Night Wrong project. So, I’m now playing catch up. I put out the Against the Clock compilation just to do something. I figured there were enough albums out that we could put out a reasonably good “best of” from them. I thought it was also a good release for people who weren’t familiar with my work.

Allan Holdsworth (Sound Waves 2012)

I understand that your most recent recording is for a Chad Wackerman solo project. Please tell me about this new record.

The album is titled “Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations.” The recording of this album was spread over a very long time. His last studio record was released almost as long ago as mine. We started recording some of the tracks in Australia about eight years ago, and then he just kept adding to it. It was a long process, and we recorded a few tracks at a time, and he recently decided that he finally had enough tracks to put out an album. So that was that.

Links

YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k23Q3R7MYoWm_H-2aO9misg-2lRMIxR3A

Ed's blog: http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/09/22-chad-wackerman.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_Nightmares_and_Improvisations

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/547005-Chad-Wackerman-Dreams-Nightmares-And-Improvisations