Not All A Dream, is the 7th
track of The Allstar Project’s second album, Into The Ivory Tower, which was released in 2011 by Rastilho
Records.
The Allstar Project is a great Portuguese post-rock band with a lot of cinematic
influences. This track features an excerpt from Lord Byron’s magnificent poem
Darkness.
If we take into account the fact that the album’s cover features a
painting named Destruction (1836) by Thomas Cole, which is part of The Course
of Empire series, the reference to the Babel Tower and the use of Lord Byron’s
Darkness I think it is fair to consider this album to be clearly apocalyptic.
"I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light"
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