''Dream, After Dream'', performed by the American

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band

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, is the soundtrack album to the Japanese

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''Yume, Yume No Ato'' directed by fashion designer

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. Released in 1980 on

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, it was the seventh album-length recording by the group. The soundtrack firmly overshadowed the film itself, which enjoyed little fame. The album was a significant departure from the

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which characterized the band's three preceding albums, harking back to their

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beginnings and relying on complex musicianship and instrumentals. ''Dream, After Dream'' features a full vocal on three of its nine tracks, "Destiny", "Sand Castles" and "Little Girl". "Little Girl" was later the

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of the " Open Arms" single and was featured on Journey's '' Time³'' collection. It also appears as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of '' Departure'' and the 2011 edition of '' Greatest Hits 2''. "Destiny" is the band's longest recorded song. This was the last studio album to feature founding member

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Reception

''Dream, After Dream'' has been viewed as a major departure from the commercially successful, radio-friendly pop of their previous three albums, instead harking back to their early, progressive rock-oriented work.

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wrote, "One of the most overlooked albums in Journey's catalogue ... ''Dream, After Dream'' is a fine example of Journey's underrated musicianship, and recommended for devoted fans."

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, normally an ardent detractor of the band, was even more enthusiastic, describing the album as "the band's finest recording of the 80's". Marsh, Dave. "Great, Forgotten Records". ''New Book of Rock Lists''.

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. 1994.

Track listing

Personnel

;Band members *

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– lead vocals, producer *

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– guitars, vocals, producer *

– keyboards, piano, harmonica, vocals, producer *

Ross Valory Ross Lamont Valory (born February 2, 1949) is an American musician who is best known as the original bass player for the rock band Journey from 1973 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 2020. Valory was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a ...

– bass guitar, vocals, producer *

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– drums, percussion, producer ;Additional musicians *Eiji Arai, Yasuo Hirauchi, Tadataka Nakazawa, Sumio Okada -

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s *Toshio Araki, Yoshikazu Kishi, Kenji Yoshida, Takatoki Yoshioka -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

s *Takashi Fukumori, Hachiro Ohmatsu, Kiyoshi Ohsawa, Masatsugu Shinozaki -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

s *Hiroto Kawamura, Kazuo Okamoto -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

s *Masayuki Yamashiro -

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*Strings and horns arranged and conducted by Matthew A. Schon ;Production *Kevin Elson - producer, engineer, mixing *Akira Fukada, Geoff Workman - engineers

References

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