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Madeleine Dreams is the second recording from cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum s improvising chamber ensemble, SpiderMonkey Strings. The centerpiece of this release is Bynum s titular composition, a six-movement secular oratorio inspired by the novel, Madeleine is Sleeping (Harcourt), a 2004 National Book Award finalist written by his sister, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, and its theme of the logic of dreams.
The piece, which the band has performed on tour since the March 2008 debut at New York s Roulette, draws text from the book, a magical-realist fable of a girl s coming of age that moves between dreams and reality in 19th century France. Madeleine Dreams also documents Bynum s distinctive arrangements of music by Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington and Sun Ra.