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Seven CD box set of the complete recordings of The Dream Academy. Seven CD box set of the complete recordings of The Dream Academy.
Featuring their three official albums and including all official B-sides and remixes and unreleased tracks.
The band’s Nick Laird-Clowes has searched the Warner Bros archives to find rarities and unreleased tracks and has been closely involved with remastering, creating all new artwork, and choosing photographic material as well as writing comprehensive liner notes for the set.
The Dream Academy were a British band featuring singer/guitarist and songwriter Nick LairdClowes, multi instrumentalist Kate St. John, and keyboardist/songwriter Gilbert Gabriel.
In I985 the group achieved worldwide success following the release of their first single ‘Life In A Northern Town’ which saw their subsequent debut album going into the American Top 20.
Their atmospheric music was the result of an unusual musical line-up of oboe and cor anglais, string synthesiser and acoustic guitar, while their three albums for Warner/Reprise brought them a large and devoted following.
Their close musical association with David Gilmour saw him co-producing two of their three albums. Other co-productions included both Lyndsey Buckingham and Hugh Padgham.
The cinematic nature of their recordings saw the band being asked to contribute music to films by both John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Trains, Planes and Automobiles) and Diane Keaton (Heaven).
The group disbanded in 1990 and the intervening years have seen extensive sampling and cover versions of their debut single, (most notably by Dario G’s ‘Sunchyme’ and Sugarland And Little Big Town’s reworking of ‘Life In A Northern Town’) resulting in further international chart success and a Grammy nomination.
All three members remain active in the music business with Nick Laird-Clowes’s subsequent career as a film composer, Kate St John in demand as both musical director and string arranger while Gilbert Gabriel’s doctorate sees his continued involvement with both film music and multi-media exploration. Tracks: CD1: The Dream Academy
Life In a Northern Town
The Edge of Forever
(Johnny) New Light
In Places on The Run
This World
Bound To Be
Moving On
The Love Parade
The Party
One Dream
CD2: Remembrance Days
Indian Summer
The Lesson of Love
Humdrum
Power To Believe
Hampstead Girl
Here
In The Hands of Love
Ballad In 4/4
Doubleminded
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas)
DISC THREE
A Different Kind of Weather
CD3
Love
Mercy Killing
Lucy September
Gaby Says
Waterloo
Twelve-Eight Angel
St. Valentines Day
It'll Never Happen Again
Forest Fire
Lowlands
Not For Second Prize
CD4
The Love Parade (Remix) - US Single
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Single
Girl In a Million (For Edie Sedgwick) - B-Side
In Places on The Run - Edit
In The Heart - Japanese Single
The Chosen Few
Indian Summer - Single Version
Hampstead Girl - B/V Mix
Sunrising
The Demonstration - B-Side
The Last Day of The War (Pt 1) - Unreleased
The Last Day of The War
CD5
The Day It Rained Forever - Unreleased
Poised On the Edge of Forever - B-Side
Test Tape No.3 - B-Side
Bound To Be - Demo
Things We Said Today - B-Side
Doubleminded - Demo - Unreleased
These Walls - Unreleased
The Party - Acoustic Version
Living In a War
Immaculate Heartache - BSide
House Of Heartbreak - Unreleased
CD6
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Instrumental
The Love Parade - Instrumental
Humdrum - Instrumental - Unreleased
Power To Believe - Instrumental
Hampstead Girl - Instrumental - Unreleased
Here - Instrumental - Unreleased
In The Hands of Love - B/V Mix - Unreleased
Ballad in 4/4 - Instrumental - Unreleased
Doubleminded - Instrumental - Unreleased
Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime - Instrumental - Unreleased
In Exile (for Rodrigo Rojas) - Instrumental - Unreleased
The Demonstration - Instrumental - Unreleased 13 In Suspendium - B-Side
CD7
Life In a Northern Town - Extended
The Love Parade - 12 Mix
Indian Summer - Extended Version
Angel Of Mercy - 12/8 Mix
Mordechai Vanunu - B-Side
Love (Is Seven) - B-Side
Love - Dreamstrumental
Love - Dream House
Love - Love Is 12
Love - Whales in Love
Love - Hare Krishna Mix
Heaven - Pts 1 /2 - Unreleased

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