southern records

Dream Island Laughing Language is the eighteenth release by Lucky Dragons. The album details the continuing pursuit of a humble and joyous, drippy and explosive, smouldering and upset music for their experience in America right now - messages of unrest have long failed to be clearly understood, solitude and empty organisation have given way to a very current volcanic desire for togetherness. Genre has never been less important - influences and ideas are consumed and digested and released in the spirit of a culture larger than music as it is bought and sold. You could call it post-noise, or post-anything you like, but we would prefer to call it pre-something.

With a constantly shifting group of participants, each recording is a record of a specific time and place. For this recording, the time is 2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to the landfill island in Tokyo harbour where the original lucky dragon now lives: "dream island", and to the creation of imaginary languages: "laughing language", that can be used to express things our own languages can't. As with Lucky Dragons' remarkable live performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community, memory and ritual all come together as a crystal which vibrates and shatters.