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. 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. 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. His reports from the unconscious (his "somniloquies") were faithfully recorded by a roommate between the years 19 and a LP of his dream diatribes was even released to minor acclaim in 1964. 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. 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. 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. T Z A D I K R E C O R D S P R E S E N T SÄion McGregor was a dreamer. Dion McGregor Dreams Again: Radio Specials
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