Dreamtime
Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term for the animist framework and symbol system of Australian Aboriginal mythology, introduced by anthropologist A. P. Elkin in 1938 and popularised by anthropologist William Edward Hanley Stanner and others from the 1970s for a concept of "time out of time", or "everywhen", inhabited by ancestral figures, often of heroic proportions or with supernatural abilities, but not considered "gods" as they do not control the material world and are not worshipped.
The term is based on a rendition of the indigenous (Arandic) word alcheringa, used by the Aranda (Arunta, Arrernte) people of Central Australia, although it appears that it is based on a misunderstanding or mistranslation, and the word has a meaning closer to "eternal, uncreated". However, "Dreamtime" and "the Dreaming" has acquired its own currency in 1980s popular culture based on idealised or fictionalised conceptions of Australian mythology. Since the 1970s, "Dreaming" and "Dream time" has also returned from academic usage via popular culture and tourism, and is now ubiquitous in the English vocabulary of indigenous Australians in a kind of "self-fulfilling academic prophecy".
Dreamtime (musical)
Dreamtime is an original musical by Jean Marc Cerrone and David Niles. It was created by Niles, based on an original story by Cerrone. Niles wrote the book for the musical. The show's message is the power of love and dreams. Billed as a "New Broadway Musical Experience," the show combined giant screen images in high definition with live actors, music and laser lighting effects. The hi-tech, quick editing equipment incorporated into the theater allowed the audience members to be videotaped upon their entrance and become part of the show's finale. Dreamtime ran on Broadway at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1992.
Production Origins
Dreamtime is an adaptation of several of Cerrone’s earlier works. Cerrone was invited to perform several outdoor concerts with laser lights, synchronized water fountains and fireworks commemorating national celebrations before audience of hundreds of thousands. The first, in 1978 was a show inside a plexiglass pyramid on the Pavilion for 1200 people. Over the next ten years the concerts developed more of a theme and narrative storyline.
Dreamtime (The Cult album)
Dreamtime is the debut studio album by The Cult. Released on 10 September 1984, it reached #21 in the UK and was later certified silver by the BPI after having sold 60,000 copies. The first single, "Spiritwalker", reached #1 on the UK Indie Chart. Dreamtime has subsequently been reissued (or in some cases bootlegged) in roughly 30 countries worldwide.
Lyrics to the song "Horse Nation" are taken almost verbatim from the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. "Spiritwalker" is a reference to shamanism, while "Dreamtime" is inspired by the Australian Aborigines and 'Butterflies' is a reference to the Hopi ceremonial butterfly dance. "A Flower in the Desert" is a reworking of the Southern Death Cult's song "Flowers in the Forest".
The record was originally being produced by Joe Julian, but after recording the drums, the band decided to replace him, and Beggars Banquet suggested John Brand. The record was ultimately produced by Brand, but guitarist Billy Duffy has said that the drum tracks used on the record were those produced by Julian, as band drummer Nigel Preston had become too unreliable by that time.
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Dreamtime
ALBUMS
- Didgeridoo: Essence of the Earth released: 2013
- DIDGERIDOO released:
DIDGERIDOO
- Dawn, With an Elder
- Tribal (techno)
- Elder Speaks, Part 1
- Faces of Culture
- Cave Dance
- Mali Mali Dusk Chant
- Echoes of Kakadu
- Track to Arnhem Land
- Elder Speaks, Part 2
- Into the Dreaming
- Turning Sky
- Spirtual Wind
- Elder Speaks, Part 3
- Two Seeds
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Mind Awakening
- In the Outback
- Corroboree
- Bush Tucker Song
- Closing Thoughts
Dreamtime
ALBUMS
- ZYX Italo Disco Spacesynth Collection released: 2014
- ZYX Italo Disco New Generation, Volume 2 released: 2013
ZYX Italo Disco Spacesynth Collection
Released 2014- Moon Machine
- Koto Tribute Mix
- Dreamscape (short mix)
- Modulation
- The Return of Space Raiders
- Hexagon
- Event Horizon
- Digital Mind
- Skylifter
- Cylonian Skyline (Revised version)
- Sha'Rah
- Rock the Space
- Humanoid Invasion (re-edit version)
- Star Tracks (dance version)
- Digital Signal Processor
- Argonauts
- Space Warriors
- Space Trouble
- Don't Stop
- Dragon's Legend
- Ikeya Seki
- Byt & E
- Invader
- Fall of the Wall (DDR Space mix)
- Pulstar
ZYX Italo Disco New Generation, Volume 2
Released 2013- S.O.S. for Love (maxi version)
- Do You (extended version)
- Let's Go to Tokyo (Axel remix)
- Magic Blue Eyes (long version)
- Dancer (Italo mix)
- You Try, You Choose (long mix)
- Love on the Run (extended version)
- Romance (disco mix)
- Inside (maxi version)
- In a World of Fantasy (long Fantasy mix)
- Live the Night (extended version)
- Humanoid Battle (extended version)
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Dreamtime
by: Hall & OatesI saw you standing and I felt your rage
Like a dark cloud on a crowded stage
You were talking through the smoke in your fantasy
I know you, girl, I know what to believe
Maybe things ain't been so good at home
And the people that you love, never cared at all
You wanna run away, don't care where you go
You wanna run away, that's all you know
Believe it's alright to fantasize
And say the words you think will satisfy me
But you know better than that
'Cause you know what's a lie
You're living in dreamtime, baby
It's time to wake up
You're living in dreamtime, baby
It's time to shape up
In your dream, it's overcast
Rain comes down, moving your way fast
You wanna run away, don't care where you go
You wanna run away, that's all you know
Turn a corner, then you see a door
Walk on through, throw yourself on the floor
When you're looking up, it's no surprise
Standing there is a man with movie star eyes
Think he's gonna take care of you
The man with the plan that'll see you through
I say there ain't no way
'Cause I know he's a lie
You're living in dreamtime, baby
It's time to wake up
You're living in dreamtime, baby
It's time to shape up
I never saw anybody fall apart so fast
Living in dreamtime, you know it ain't gonna last
Never saw anybody think she's so right and be so wrong
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Glorious outback puppet show keeps Dreamtime stories alive
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