Grace Slick
Dreams

It is a great honor for me to review a true legend from the end of the Youth Revolution era and the fabulous, at least from a musical point of view, first half of the '70s, experienced in youth by the undersigned who is thus a direct witness to the success of Grace Slick, well-known at the time both because of her intriguing and captivating beauty and as the singer of Jefferson Airplane, but also a producer of a remarkable and famous solo album released in '74, that "Manole" which did nothing but confirm and exalt her rare gifts.

Yet this work released only 6 years later is certainly no less, quite the contrary! To realize this, the opening "Dreams" is enough, briefly recalling the epic of the famous Manole suite and as another link, we have immediately after "El Diablo" in perfect gypsy style. So why didn't this album achieve the expected success here, on the contrary, it went quite far from even the minimum unionically foreseeable for the author from Illinois?

A possible explanation can come from the historical musical moment: the glorious Jefferson Airplane deceased and now buried, rejuvenated in Starship now also, for our public, in full decay at the beginning of the '80s. Conversely, the commercial success of "Dreams" in the States was such as to surpass (by far) not only its predecessor but also all subsequent solo works by Grace Slick.

Honestly, I must say that I have also followed this path and "Dreams" is a fairly recent discovery; in which tracks like "Full Moon Man" largely highlight the fullness and range of Grace's warm voice, still at the top despite the numerous vicissitudes that affected her in those years; not to mention "Seasons," the album's most successful single: an engaging choral march that perhaps someone will remember, developed with the help of the Celebrations Singers.

Even the two final pieces: "Let It Go" and "Garden Man" only serve to exalt the singing qualities of our heroine, assisted by two pages of musicians with orchestra and relative conductors........particularly I highlight the charm and epic of the second which will not make you regret the effort of rediscovering this brilliant overseas music gem in the slightest.

Maximum score in tribute to one of the greatest female voices of the Psychedelic Rock era and beyond, as here we are rather in the realm of Symphonic Rock. Collector's album, glossy and coherent graphics, good sound rendering, but improvable with a hoped-for remastering.