Happy Highways Where I Went w/ Dan Arnés

My mix and interpretation of the dreaming theme is an attempt to express the fleeting nature of dreams, music, and their place in the subconscious by way of the concept of travel. After dreaming, I often come away with the feeling that I have traveled somewhere. In my daily reality, actual travel can even resemble the transitory state of a dream—half-remembered highways all merging together in my blurred memory. Just like a dream, I end up later recalling my journey vaguely, attempting to recall details consciously but only assembling an abstract approximation. There's a feeling of melancholy I feel when facing the ephemeral nature of the subconscious. Like it's telling me something I can't quite make out or remember. That it took me somewhere I’ll never be again. One of my favorite films Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, a gorgeous parable with the feel of a dream, shares its name with the journey young Aboriginal men take as an initiation into adulthood. It’s a simple film steeped in complex thematic concerns, among them the nature of memory. A longing for something you can never return to. My mix is named after two lines in the poem featured at the end of the film that capture my sense of dreams as travel and memory. "The happy highways where I went. And cannot come again.”