bwaaowww...that's my onomatopoeia for the guitar sound that opens #9 Dream. It sounds like an instantaneous sunrise, like bwaaowww! and the sun is up. The guitarist is Jesse Ed Davis and he is playing the sweetest wah pedal tone ever. Listening to this song is like floating on a cloud. Very much of its time, breezy mid-70s production with a heavy layer of smoothness, kind of like 10CC's 'I'm Not in Love' or The Hollies 'Air that I Breathe'.
Nicky Hopkins on keyboards and John's pal Klaus Voormann on bass. I always feel a little sadness about John when I hear his music, but then I know he doesn't want people hanging their heads - keep yer chin up, world! I never knew that John had used the string arrangement already, on Nilsson's version of Many Rivers to Cross. It's fun to hear it on a different song. Once in a rare while I obsess over the tinniness of the reverb used on John's voice, but it's pretty well buried under the heavy string gravy...man it's thick. But so ultra-creamy. And, obviously, dreamy.
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé
Timeless...and...surreal.
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