We Dreamed That We Were Strangers

Description

We Dreamed That We Were Strangers is an ambient album by the British born poet and singer/songwriter Steve Scott, independently released on Glow Records in 1996, in co-operation with RadRockers. The album was produced by Steve Scott and features his signature poetry/spoken word on top of ambient music. Many of the poems were taken from Scott’s Boundaries series. A follow up of sorts to The Butterfly Effect.

CD tracklist:

01. From Genesis to Revelation
02. Tiger Sky
03. Interlude
04. The Lost Child
05. Afterimages
06. We Dreamed That We Were Strangers
07. Dark Interval
08. Hands
09. Afterimages (Unspoken Remix)
10. Beneath the Skin
11. The Witness

CREDITS. Production/Writing: Steve Scott. Also, voice, slide guitar, and all loops/sequences drawing upon various synthesizer and sample banks. Emphatic and Creative Engineering: Mark Tootle and Sean Farrington. Including recording, mixdown and mastering. Graphics and Visuals: Michael Lucchi (for 5 Clients Productions). Sleeve design and concept, including booklet and back cover design. (Photo image from Esscott snapshot of Sri Lankan refugee kids in 1987.)

About the Poems: – “Afterimages” revised. Original version in The Boundaries Vol. I. – “Beneath the Skin” also from The Boundaries Vol. 1. – “From Genesis to Revelation”, “We Dreamed That We Were Strangers”, and “Hands” from The Saint Petersburg Fragments (Boundaries Vol. II). – “Genesis” based on a visit to a children’s hospital on the outskirt of Saint Petersburg. – “Strangers” based on Nikolai Ge’s painting of The Last Supper in the Russian Museum. – “Hands” based on the story of poet Irina Ratushinskaya in prison camp writing poems on bars of soap, memorizing them, and then erasing the evidence by washing her hands. – “The Lost Child” from Out Of Order (Boundaries Vol. III).