”Dreams Outside" presents the post-jazz instrumental trio dustlights at their collective spirit’s edge, moving in moments, with psychedelic peaks, synergic transitions, and melodic reveries singing and screaming over their signature foundation of minimalist groove and layered effects. Featuring many songs improvised right on stage when they toured their critically-acclaimed 2018 debut “In A Stillness”, dustlights’ second release with Ropeadope Records captures the raw energy and sonic explorations of true live performance, while still delving deeply into the same core of dark beautiful moods that led critics to compare them to Portishead, Tortoise, Morphine, and Dungen.

While the first conversational utterances of the band started in Brooklyn circa 2016, dustlights are now a long-term and long-distance collaboration between Carrboro, NC- based saxophonist Joe Wilson and the Brooklyn-based drums and bass of David Christian and Ran Livneh. During their formative seasons in South Brooklyn, the trio of freelance musicians met regularly in secret dens to experiment, revise, and gradually define a songwriting process and a vibe that resonates with genres and mood-based art beyond the usual ideas of “sax trio”, without rejecting the organic and intimate possibilities inherent to that. The sessions culminated in their full-length debut “In A Stillness” which earned a long-time spot on Spotify ’s heavily curated “The State of Jazz” playlist, as well as radio play in Europe and the USA, while jazz, jam band, and underground music critics wrote inspired reviews relating the record to classic trip hop, post rock, a new wave of “jazzbient” artists, and more abstract images like flickering candlelight and tectonic shifts.