In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

by Jeet Thayil

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities is one of the most accessible songs on Thayil’s album, Speak Amnesia.
It’s jazzy, pop undertone lulls the listener to a sense of comfort before the darker textures of the rest of the album hits them.

Recording in weekly late-night sessions between December 2021 and December 2022, Jeet Thayil (guitar, vocals) created the soundscapes of Speak, Amnesia in controlled bursts of improvisation and release.

The sounds seem to emerge as a response to the isolation and anxiety of the years that immediately preceded its creation.

They sound like 'future ghost music' or soundtracks to imaginary films. The truth lies of course with the recipient. Ghosts sometime indicate where the future lies. We are supposed to scare. I was not scared. If it was late-night labour that created them, then it was beholden that I listen at the same witching hour. What I heard left me disturbed and stirred in equal measure. There is a reason a record is called a record. It is the documentation of a moment, a snapshot that fades into time's brutal regime at the very moment of its creation. By the time you click on play, it's over, all that's left is the hieroglyph of a gone emotion. But like a photograph, a letter, or a scar, a piece of music is always there to take you back, even as the moment and the memory of that moment melts away. Thus, speaks amnesia.

lyrics

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Sometimes In Dreams
I lose your eye
Then I cross over
Just to say goodbye

Yes dear, Its like I said it would be
All fear to get back to me

In dreams you catch my eye

In dreams you catch my eye
When you come back just to say goodbye
Yes dear, like you said it would be
We cross the ocean just to get to the sea

In dreams you catch my eye

credits

released April 5, 2023
Catalog:AISSAI2301
Recorded at: Flights Of Fancy, Bengaluru
Mixing and Mastering: Adil Nadaf
Words and Voice: Jeet Thayil.
Strings and Brass Arrangement: Yashas Shetty
Piano,Electric Keyboard: Yashas Shetty
Drums, Percussion: Y. Kamaal.
Art Work: Ninan Joseph

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Jeet Thayil Bengaluru, India

As a boy, Jeet Thayil traveled through much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years, in Bombay, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City, and he published three volumes of poetry. The first installment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.His book of poems These Errors Are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award. ... more