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[The ubiquitous Amazon.com has posted randomly-excerpted 30-second sound clips of several tracks from the album. They are also, of course, selling it. This link should (?) go right to their Dion McGregor page.]
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SPINNING ON AIR/
DAVID GARLAND
WNYC, New York
March 12, 1999
60 minutes
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Dion McGregor was a dreamer. And you can listen to him dream, because Dion McGregor talked in his sleep and his dreams were recorded! Stream of consciousness was never so natural, real, or bizarre as on these tapes made while McGregor slept, and talked his way through his dreams. In addition to McGregor's virtuoso dreams, you can hear interviews with Michael Barr, who recorded them, and Phil Milstein, who produced a new CD of Dion's dreams. [entire program in RealAudio] [Spinning On Air web page]
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OTHER WORLDS/
BRENT CLOUGH
Radio National, Australia
July 10, 1999
107 minutes
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Loud Dreams: New Yorker Dion McGregor was an erstwhile songwriter and cinema buff whose main claim to fame is that he was a voluble dreamer. His reports from the unconscious (his "somniloquies") were faithfully recorded by a roommate between the years 1960 and 1967 and a LP of his dream diatribes was even released to minor acclaim in 1964. Researcher Phil Milstein has gathered recordings of Dion considered too risque to be released in the 1960s and assembled them for the 1999 Tzadik album, Dion McGregor Dreams Again. As a narrator of his (often terrifying) dreams, Dion adopts various personas but frequently establishes a fey, argumentative, not to say, insolent approach to the subject at hand -- be it a balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman's tongue. Also, as Phil Milstein notes, the Tzadik LP could just as well be called Dion McGregor Screams Again, given the shrieks which conclude many of the dream accounts. Tonight's edition of Other Worlds, therefore, celebrates the uneasy, unstable realm of the dream-world with a selection of dream-inspired music and the astonishing testimonies of dreamland's greatest ever on-the-spot commentator. [playlist]
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HERE & NOW/
BRUCE GELLERMAN
WBUR, Boston (NPR)
April 12, 1999
5 minutes
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A sleeper of a different sort: old tapes of a man who dreams out loud are collected into a new CD called Dion McGregor Dreams Again, available from Tzadik recordings.
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BASIC BLACK/
ART BLACK
CBC, Canada
April 3, 2000
13 minutes
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Correspondent Harold Fiske discusses dream recordings with host Arthur Black.
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