Paint The Sky In Dreams And Patterns

Back in January an album by 100 Poems came out, seven tracks brought together as Everything's Balearic When You Believe. In the middle of January it brought some relief from the cold and dark days of midwinter, an album its creator Mike Wilson describes as one of 'joy, happiness and positive vibrations'.  Now in late March, as the evenings are lighter, the air sometimes smells and feels like spring is about to spring and we have the promise of the clocks going forward at the weekend, it feels even more like Mike's description than it did two months ago. 100 Poems are from Dublin, not the first place that comes to mind when the word Balearic is mentioned. But if the spirit of Balearic music as played by Alfredo and other DJs in Ibiza's open air clubs in the 1980s is that you can play whatever you like, there are no rules, if it sounds good, play it, then there's every reason to expect find it in Dublin as anywhere else.

Everything's Balearic When You Believe is seven tracks long, open minded and expressive, drawing from dub and pop, house and downtempo, sundowners and swimming pools, blissed out and beatific and filled with magic. It's available at Bandcamp at a name your own price deal. 

Paint The Sky In Dreams And Patterns opens with the sounds of a gig, an open air free festival type gig. Then a gently psyche guitar part weaves in, building and rising, drums thump in, horns and keys come in layers and we are indeed painting the sky in dreams and patterns.