A Dream Of Poe

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“That holy dream - that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding.”
Edgar Allan Poe – A Dream
A Dream of Poe is a solo Project by Miguel Santos, a well known musician and producer in the Azorean islands.
Started in 2005, it was in October 2006 that A Dream of Poe releases his first work. Delirium Tremens was the name chosen for the first work of A Dream of Poe. With two songs and one cover this first work had great reviews through Europe.
Only at 2007, it’s with the first edition of the festival “October Loud” (organized by Miguel Santos and a friend) that A Dream of Poe had his first opportunity to play live. For this opportunity A Dream of Poe had the help of several Azorean musicians.
It was with a great surprise that the audience and the critics saw this first live appearance. One year after, A Dream of Poe returns to the stage of the festival “October Loud” where A Dream of Poe puts out a performance that surprises everyone. This was the biggest and better live show from A Dream of Poe. A Dream of Poe was able to set up a professional show that amazed everyone. From the clothes to the dry leaves on the stage everything was take in account.
At November 18th 2008 was released as a free download the Live CD For a Glance of the Lost Lenore recorded at the festival “October Loud 2008”. At the same time it was uploaded to Youtube.com the videos of the live performance at the festival “October Loud”.
Still in 2008, A Dream of Poe takes part of the tribute CD Echoes of a Morbid Death to the Azorean Metal Band Morbid Death with the song Gentle Whisper. For the international tribute Mires of Sorrow to My Dying Bride, A Dream of Poe recorded the song For My Fallen Angel.
The year of 2009 was entirely dedicated to the studio work. Due to many reasons the second studio work that had the release date to 2007 has suffered several delays. Two years after the original release date, at October 7th 2009, the EP Sorrow For The Lost Lenore was released. This work featured three original songs and two covers, Gentle Whisper and For My Fallen Angel. The EP was made available through internet as a free download. Six months after the release, Sorrow For The Lost Lenore was downloaded more than 1000 times!
Playing since 2005 and after one demo, one Live CD and one EP, A Dream of Poe releases a new work that is a preview for his upcoming Album to be released late in this year.
Recorded between February and April 2010, the third studio work, Lady of Shalott, was released in May 30th. Lady of Shalott features the new vocalist, João Melo, who gives voice to the new work. João is a very dynamic vocalist and we can hear his great melancholic voice and also his deep growl that makes this EP a new step for A Dream of Poe.
Featuring two versions of the song Lady of Shalott, the album version and a short version, this EP lead us to what will be the first album in the history of A Dream of Poe. Besides the song Lady of Shalott, this EP presents us with a cover of The Cure. Here the song If only tonight we could sleep was stripped down and dressed up again with an even darker and gloomier clothes making this, one colossal Doom Metal song!
Having released the EP Sorrow For The Lost Lenore back in October 2009 as a download only, this new EP includes two songs from the previous work, but do not think it was just copied and pasted from one to another! The song Whispers of Osiris and Laudanum was both remixed and remastered to fit the actual sound of Lady of Shalott EP. This aim to give them a new life, making it sound even better and bigger!
As Sorrow For The Lost Lenore was wrote back in 2007, even thought it was only released in 2009, this new EP, Lady of Shalott, gives an overall idea about the evolution of A Dream of Poe.
2010 will be spend recording the debut album and rehearsing for the first European Tour set for the first months of 2011.