Sleep - Dragonaut
It's World Sleep Day! So Sleep we shall.
As someone who sometimes struggles with it, it's cool that there's a World Sleep Day for insomniac whackos such as I.
The band called Sleep isn't normally something you'd put on to fall asleep to, though. Although they do create a soporifically terrific sorta mood.
Or maybe metallic drones played at ear shattering volume are just the thing you need to sail off into the deepest, most restfully restorative slumber, I have no idea.
These lads have been around since the early 1990s, and are among the prime exponents of what some people call Stoner Rock or Stoner Metal.
Their songs are almost all one continuous thing, all variations on one chord progression, permutated to sound like every Black Sabbath track on Volume 4 is about to play. Even their logo is in the typeface from that LP!
I almost never cover stuff like this, but why not? You all can do without whatever 112 year old Jazzbo was born today for a minute, right?
It doesn't matter, as I have the page traffic of the average lamppost anyways, talk about tired. So let's catch up on some much needed Sleep, shall we? I tweaked this one with the AI stem-separating gizmo as well, so now the drums and vocals are marginally audible, even.
Sleep
Hellfest 2013
Val de Moine
Clisson, France
6.21.2013
01 intro: The Sciences
02 Sonic Titan
03 Dragonaut
04 Holy Mountain
05 Aquarian
06 From Beyond
07 Antarcticans Thawed
08 Dopesmoker part VI
Total time: 1:12:27
Al Cisneros – bass & vocals
Matt Pike – guitar
Jason Roeder – drums
320/48k audio captured from a HD YouTube video
spectral analysis is lossless past 20 kHz, making this equivalent to a preFM source
converted to 16/44 CD Audio, edited, tracked, stem-separated, balanced, remuxed & remastered by EN, March 2025
469 MB FLAC/direct link
I have a few more I am working up for March, and I will try to start getting to some of the deaths that have happened recently, across all kinds of music.
Oh yeah... I almost forgot. I have this Brian Eno playlist that's 9 hours of Dark Ambient stuff that I sometimes put on to go to sleep to, and for which I created a passel of slowed down, extended pieces that feature him in collaboration with other folks like David Bowie and Harmonia, for instance.
Anyway I tossed those into the folder, in case anyone wants such a thing or is interested. I mean, I dunno, maybe you live for David Bowie's Subterraneans slowed down to 1/4 the normal speed, who can really say?
Not to detract from the heavy, Bardo of Dream sort of trance the band named Sleep are adept at inducing, though. Now hush and get all snuggly, light/cuddle up and just driffffffffffffft awaaaaaaaaaay.....-J.