Following their 2022 debut album “The Human Jazz”, Berlin based artist Twïns returns to Earth Libraries with “Healing Dreams”, their second LP. After exploring the nature of loss and grief in their first record, this album represents the spiritual journey that follows, one towards healing and growth, both as an individual and as a community. “Healing Dreams” transports the listener into a multi-faceted tropical universe that feels a long way away from Berlin. It is warm and mellow, with floating questions that are explored in soft contemplation by the sea in the bossa-tinted “Marisma”, or in the depths of the meditative mind, in the free-form improvisation “Introspection”. A sense of personal pain and melancholy can be felt in some of the lyrics, which continue to turn over the complications of relationships in all their forms, but the sunbeams rarely vanish. The influence of spiritual jazz is clearly present in Twïns’ work, accompanied by a humble and joyous exploration of their most treasured aural aesthetics from the ‘70s. The soft rock of Paul McCartney and George Harrison inspire a gentle tone, in which Twïns shares their rejection of violence and aggression in the increasingly dark world that we inhabit. The words: “Peace and unity shall be the poem of the day” are written on the front cover of the LP, transcribed from the real dream that inspired the album’s title. RIYL: Lô Borges, Pharoah Sanders, Carole King, Tex Crick, Amen Dunes, Gary Wilson.
