Dreamers
Mark Lockheart, Elliot Galvin, Tom Herbert & Dave Smith
Released on Edition Records available as limited edition vinyl, CD, WAV and MP3
Dreamers is a project from British saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart, featuring Elliot Galvin, Tom Herbert, and Dave Smith. Together they create music that is stylistically free, imaginative, and at times beautifully psychedelic.
Blurring the lines between jazz, rock, and ambient soundscapes, Dreamers explores new possibilities for the saxophone-led ensemble. Lockheart’s original compositions move effortlessly between delicate lyricism and rhythmic intensity, with grooves and textures that constantly shift and surprise.
The music draws on a wide range of influences — from Duke Ellington and Wayne Shorter to John Zorn, The Beatles, and Kraftwerk — all woven into Lockheart’s distinctive melodic and exploratory sound world.
Dreamers is both bold and intimate, showcasing a group of musicians at the height of their creativity and an artist continuing to push his music into fresh, unexpected directions.
As Mark explains: “The grooves, the sonics and the musical character of each piece are all hugely important. The process of writing music for these musicians led me into a new sound world that’s very different from anything I’d done before”.
“I wanted this music to be unfussy and direct, but also unpredictable and surprising. The grooves, the sonics and the musical character of each piece are all hugely important and the process led me into a new sound world that's very different from anything I’d done before. The three musicians in this group have been cunningly intuitive about how I wanted the music interpreted and I love how everyone plays in this band. Elliot’s wonderful sonic palette, Tom’s deep rooted bass playing and Dave’s incredible groove and spirit, holds the music high and gives each piece its identity and character.”
"Built from the past, but creating vivid potentials for the future, Dreamers is the stuff all good jazz is made of" Jazzwise ****
“From Loose Tubes to Polar Bear and beyond, Lockheart’s capacity to be ahead of the jazz curve is undeniable. In this new band his combination of lyrical economy and harmonic creativity has found three improvisatory soulmates who clearly know how to make the most of his compositions in their own terms”.
Jazzwise Magazine