Dreams and Other Certainties, by David Ballantine

Dreams and Other Certainties

by David Ballantine

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1.	Tune for T 02:29	buy track
2.	Swan Flying 04:14	buy track
3.	Silverberg 05:04	buy track
4.	Sit Down Why Don't You (edit) 03:11	buy track
5.	Hollywood Ghosts Dancing 03:44	buy track
6.	Place 04:57	buy track
7.	Life Times 05:22	buy track
8.	Robin Meadow 04:43	buy track
9.	What & Roll 02:30	buy track
10.	Moon Ripples 03:46	buy track
11.	The Count of Cornucopia 05:15	buy track
12.	Nice Phone Call Feeling 03:34	buy track

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Sometimes wistful, sometimes boisterous, this album is a bit like a collection of dream segments captured in sound, with the surprises and odd turns a dream often takes.

"Pure class as always" - Brendan Monagahan

"I love this eclectic album. It starts out with a traditional sounding melody played on an electric guitar, with backing from synth and pipes and drums and moves through a variety of styles, experimental, classical, techno, rock, cinematic, fusion, and probably more I can't identify. It's great. At times foot-tapping, straight-ahead tonal, it shifts into dissonant, harmonic washes, sometimes light-hearted, sometimes like a soundtrack from a horror film. It keeps you guessing and never gets boring." - Matt Price

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released July 12, 2022

An instrumental album
Written and produced by David Ballantine

Cover artwork by Joel Young

David Ballantine is a composer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
His soundtrack work includes the IFI award-winning documentary film 'How To defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story' in 2016, and he scored the powerful 2015 documentary 'Collusion' for RTE which was nominated in the Celtic Media Festival awards. Also, Mná na nGlinntí and The Man Who Told The Truth (both BBC, 2018).
In 2020 he released a conceptual album Solaris: A Sonic Encounter, followed by another instrumental offering, Dreams and Other Certainties in 2022.
He composed the music for the ‘Jackie’s the Boy’ series, broadcast on BBC1 in 2010; ‘As Others See Us’ (BBC, 2011), a documentary focusing on journalists who reported on The Troubles in Northern Ireland; and 'Gillespie Investigates: Domestic Terror' (BBC, 2016).
Short film dramas include ‘Free’ (2014) and ‘Love After Death’ (2015).
Other soundtracks include ‘Oz: Around Australia on a Triumph’ (DVD); BBC ‘Spotlight: Divided Orange’ and ‘The Pox Doc’ (both BBC, 2011); ‘Spotlight: Home Truths’ and ‘Are Ye Comin out to Play’ (DVD) in 2012.
'As Others See Us' received the highest BBC audience approval rating in the UK for 2011.
June Tabor’s version of Ballantine’s song ‘A Tale From History (The Shooting)' appears on her Quercus album released in March 2013 by ECM. His song ‘Paint’ was a featured number on the soundtrack of an Australian movie, The Extra. Siobhan Skates recorded three Ballantine titles for her 2010 album ‘Better Than a Dream.
David's songs have been recorded and performed by an eclectic range of performers – from folk and country through to jazz - including Peter Corry, Susan Tomelty, Mary Duff, Cattle Company, Romeo Texas, Jennifer Licko and Brigid O’Neill.

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David Ballantine Belfast, UK

David Ballantine is a composer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland, with experience across a range of subjects.

His soundtrack work includes the award-winning documentary film 'How To defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story' in 2016, and the powerful 2015 documentary 'Collusion', nominated in the Celtic Media Festival awards.

His songs have been recorded by June Tabor among others. ... more

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