If you think about it, dream music shouldn’t really be "pop". That genre’s structure is too organized and predictable to be associated with dreaming, which takes our brain for a ride through anomalous associations, buried memories and curious twists and turns. Also, pop songs are intrinsically "built" to be remembered – while most dreams are forgotten. This is why jazz feels like the more appropriate genre to match the essence of dreams, and some bands actually did try something that – Dif Juz anybody?
Brooklyn Empty Chairs don’t really play "Dream Jazz," but their approach to songwriting is not as straight nor as upbeat as required by the "pop" format. Reflective, suspended and impressionistic, the band’s songs flow like a stream of unconscious thoughts, full of gentle but still disorienting unpredictability, immersed in an atmosphere that conjures up another important quality of dreams: depth of meaning – or at least the perception of it.
Empty Chairs will celebrate the release of their debut album "Caveat Emptor" at Pianos on Friday November 1st.