Monopoly Child Nightlife 'Flying Dreams' 12" Vinyl (PRE-ORDER)

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Spencer Clark returns to Psychic Sounds under his Monopoly Star Child moniker with Flying Dreams, a collection of song spells and sonic sorcery disguised as an album. Inspired by the genius loci of Rome’s storied Villa Borghese gardens, the record functions as a living manual of levitation magic.

Its five pieces are electronic sound paintings, filled with subtle voices, luminous synthesizers, and vibratory incantations emanating from divine dimensions. The music is verdant and evergreen, filled with whispered secrets. As mysterious as it is playful and buoyant, resonant winds carry the listener into a world of secret sanctuaries and remote monasteries on holy mountain peaks.

The opening lesson, “To Identify with the Salamander Mid-Air,” combines gently distorted voices and transformed bells in a lavish ethereal sound bath. Slight dissonance and blurred passages create apprehension, but once these threshold guardians are passed, languid gateways open, ladders descend from the sky, and hidden realms become accessible.

“Three Stages of Hat Invisibility,” the second extended piece, acts as a protective shield, enabling the listener to ascend into upper worlds while warding off forces that might pull the seeker back to earth where voices of laughing ascended masters encourage the traveler to leap from cliffs into the sky.

At Villa Borghese, there is a temple to Aesculapius, God of dreams. He stands between colonnades reflected in the lake below. His presence seems to hover over “To Draw With Liquid, The Wings of Assembly,” which creates a liminal space where the subtle body slips free of the physical and rises on feathered wings. The music is lucid and encourages the practice of dream incubation, simultaneously existing as a document of Clark’s journeys across the inner planes.

Flying Dreams is a launch pad into the weird and uncanny, an Elysium of feathered and fluttering electronica, and an idiosyncratic guide towards reaching the pinnacle.

- Justin Patrick Moore, author of The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis and the Birth of Electronic Music.

Played & Recorded by Spencer Clark
Mixed by Oliver Torr
Mastered by Caleb Mulkerin
Artwork by Spencer Clark
Layout by Grant Corum

Psychic Sounds Records (PSR39)