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No Night Is Long Enough To Dream Twice

Some performances are never meant to last. Their impact isn’t measured in permanence but in the weight of the moment itself. No Night Is Long Enough To Dream Twice captures one such fleeting alignment — a live improvisation recorded at Dada, Toulouse, in March 2024, featuring three artists whose paths have intertwined for nearly two decades. Aidan Baker (Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble), Romain Barbot (Saåad, FOUDRE!, Sables Noirs), and Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, Farewell Poetry) have each carved their own singular routes through experimental music, but on this particular night, without discussion they stepped into the unknown together. For exactly 30 minutes, sound took shape between them—emerging, expanding, and vanishing as naturally as breath. Thankfully recorded by Aurélien Prévost and later restored and mastered with forensic care by Jean-Charles Bastion, the unedited recording preserves the immediacy of this suspended moment — one that might otherwise have been lost entirely. Guitar lines spiral outward like slow-motion shockwaves, while pulses of wind and distant chimes rise and fall like submerged signals. Layers of sound press against each other, stretching time until it frays.
The title, borrowed from poet Mahmoud Darwish, speaks of nights too brief for dreams to return — nights burdened with loss, with fire. The music breathes in that same spirit: weightless yet full of tension, dreamlike yet sharp-edged. Less a composition than a spontaneous entanglement, it’s a web spun in the dark—delicate, intricate, inescapable. There is no repetition, no second take. Just a single dream, unraveling before it’s gone.

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