Out now: "Man is so Small - So Infinitely Great", a free mp3-album from The Giant's Dream.




The Giant's Dream is an electronic instrumental project that consists of Joakim Westlund and Emil Johansson. Using a combination of various analogue and digital means we have been producing music together since the year most commonly known as 2003.

Current status
Out now on free mp3 at Nomethod Records is the first full-length album, "Man is so Small - So Infinitely Great" by The Giant's Dream.

The new .com site is up and are looking great. New songs are in the making.

Contact
If you want to contact us send an e-mail to: j.westlund@spray.se

You can also visit us at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thegiantsdream/

Links
http://www.buzzmachines.com/
http://www.nomethod.se/
http://www.itsatrap.com/
http://www.aerial.se/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-spock/
http://www.wikipedia.org/






Releases:


Man is so Small - So Infinitely Great
Format: MP3
Catnr: Nomethod#14
Release date: 2007-07-11
Running time: 46:19

Download for free at:
www.nomethod.se

Pay for download at:
www.klicktrack.com


01 / Man is so Small - So Infinitely Great (5:02)
02 / Deliquesce (3:37)
03 / With Phenocrysts Adorned (3:55)
04 / Distant Day (3:07)
05 / Significant Dawn (2:28)
06 / In Vials Of Ivory (4:34)
07 / Oh, Stones Of Fire! So Sublime... (1:24)
08 / An Archipelago by Night (2:34)
09 / In Which Sad Light a Carved Dolphin Swam (1:60)
10 / Transient Radiance (1:46)
11 / Fractal Sands (5:17)
12 / Sound Won't Penetrate These Walls (4:27)
13 / When Summers End (4:32)
14 / Silent Reverie (1:45)

A scene somewhere along the Peruvian desert coastline in January 2007 was caputerd to become the cover for this album...

Our latest and greatest creation so far, this is actually our first full-length album released as mp3. We hope that you download it, listen to it and ponder over how small you are in all these stars. But most of all we hope that you realize how infinitely great you are as the maker and moulder of it all.




Aeons Bygone
Format: MP3
Catnr: IAT.MP3.005
Release date: 2006-10-10
Running time: 19:46

Download for free at:
www.itsatrap.com
www.archive.org


01 / Materialize out of Nothingness (1:24)
02 / Aether of Onyx (0:54)
03 / The Wastelands of Arrakis (2:05)
04 / Conjuror of War and Watermelons (4:23)
05 / Vision of the Necrobiosis (3:35)
06 / Maelstrom of Madness and Death (3:31)
07 / Reverberation of the Sun (2:52)
08 / Through Incandescent Spheres of Lapis Lazuli (1:02)

A sci-fi themed EP released on Mp3 by It's a trap. We have imposed strange concepts on the EP, for further explanation read this interview were Joakim explains it all.

Read a review in Swedish at Louder than bombs




Idiomatic Allograph
Format: CD-R/MP3
Catnr: Nomethod#3
Release date: 2006-02-27
Running time: 31:08

Buy on CD and/or mp3 at:
www.nomethod.se
www.itsatrap.com
www.parasol.com
www.duotonerecords.com
www.nimson.com


01 / Continuum (6:47)
02 / The Giant's Dream (2:28)
03 / Apophthegm (4:41)
04 / Empyrean (7:25)
05 / Forward (4:20)
06 / Eloquence (5:29)

A selection of songs from our first two demos were re-mastered and compiled into this EP released by Nomethod Records.

Download the complete EP for free at: www.klicktrack.com

Download a ripped ogg-version at: www.musicmule.com

Read a review at It's a trap!




FM 2
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2005
Running time: 31:34


01 / Continuum (6:47)
02 / Apophthegm (4:46)
03 / Empyrean (7:30)
04 / Eligiac (7:04)
05 / Eloquence (5:27)

Our second self-released CD-R from 2005. The exact number of the limited copies are unknown.



The Giant's Dream
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2004
Running time: 33:52


01 / Right (3:23)
02 / The Giant's Dream (2:31)
03 / Winter of the East (3:46)
04 / Forward (4:26)
05 / Afterglow of Orange Light (3:11)
06 / In Motion (3:05)
07 / Are you of your Nut? (2:52)
08 / Comfort in Sorrow (4:02)
09 / Randolph Carter (3:32)
10 / Under-sea Experience (3:04)

Our first self-released CD-R from 2004, a limited and unknown amount of copies were made. At this point the name "The Giant's Dream" were only intended as a name of this particular work, but eventually became the name of the music making duo as such.







Remixes, compilations and other things featuring The Giant's Dream:


2006-12-08

One Sovereign for Man (05:48)

The Swedish label sudd. talks about this project featuring The Giant's Dream and many many more: "For December, Sudd has a grand project rolling. With the old European traditional advent calendar as a model we make 24 windows, one a day starting Dec 1st to Xmas Eve. But instead of candy or pictures in the windows you get music, of course - one free download per day." The songs are downloadable trough December 2006. Visit : the complete calendar.


Aerial - The Sentinel
Format: CD
Catnr: TSIP2017
Release date: 2006-12-17
Running time: 45:07

Buy CD:
www.inpartmaint.com


01 / Heads gone (1:35)
02 / My God, itīs full of stars (5:01)
03 / 46th street (6:56)
04 / Walk with me (7:48)
05 / You will all die, all things will (6:46)
06 / Youth and student travel (1:31)
07 / The dark star deleters (4:44)
08 / Secret godess (3:15)
09 / Spark-lit stairs (2:37)
10 / Fuji (4:45)

Under several days of tweaking and fiddling in November 2006 we helped create the bonus track "Fuji" for the Asian/Japan release of "The Sentinel" by the band Aerial. The album is released in japan by Thomason Sounds.



2006-10-23

Kobravinjett (The Giant's Dream-remix) (02:04)

Our remix on the theme from the Swedish art/culture show called "Kobra". This remix was featured on the show that aired 2006-10-23. The theme that episode was about photography and it's status in modern society. Interviews with Sally Mann, Felice Varini and others.

Link to Kobra's website


Thank you!

Above, the gemmed azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!