Excerpt: “This album is not typical of ambient music I have reviewed in the past. If your first impression is to skip over this article because ambient is not to your liking, I would invite you to reconsider and welcome you to be pleasantly surprised…. “The Licence to Interpret Dreams” incorporates neoclassical elements to an ambient framework. Piano, violin, and cello instrumentation is combined with sound samples and electronic tones. The press release I received notes influence of minimalism on the composition of the music, but I would note traces of Impressionism (e.g., like unto Claude Debussy) as well as other modern and post-modern styles. In short, I can confidently say this is a work of serious and perhaps even scholarly consideration. I give my usual recommendations in that I suggest active listening with headphones. You may be tempted to turn the volume down to the threshold of audibility, so that it is merely background noise in the distance, but I would say this is music to savor, to meditate upon, and even daydream to, as I would say the title suggests.”

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