Dust and Dreams explained

Dust and Dreams
Type:	studio
Artist:	Camel
Cover:	Camel_Dust_And_Dreams.jpg
Released:	10 September 1991
Genre:	Progressive rock
Length:	47:57
Label:	Camel Productions
Producer:	Andy Latimer
Prev Title:	Stationary Traveller
Prev Year:	1984
Next Title:	Harbour of Tears
Next Year:	1996

Dust and Dreams is the eleventh studio album by Camel. Released in 1991 after a seven-year hiatus during which Andrew Latimer and Susan Hoover moved from England to California to set up their own Camel Productions label, the album was inspired by John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.^[1]

Track listings

All songs were written by Andrew Latimer, except where noted.

Personnel

• Andy Latimer – Guitar, Flute, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer
• Colin Bass – Bass
• Ton Scherpenzeel – Keyboards
• Paul Burgess – Drums

Additional musicians

• Don Harriss – Keyboards
• Christopher Bock – Drums
• Kim Venaas – Harmonica (5,7,12), Timpani (16)
• David Paton – Vocal (6)
• Mae McKenna – Vocal (6)
• John Burton – French Horn (12)
• James SK Wān – bamboo flute
• Neil Panton – Oboe (13)

Other credits

• Produced & engineered by Andy Latimer
• Mixed by Bruce Lampcov at Air Studios, London
• Artwork by Arthur Rothstein
• Insert layout: Emily Mura-Smith

References

• The Rough Guide to Rock. (2003). United Kingdom: Rough Guides. p.165

External links

• Web site: Ground and Sky review - Camel - Dust and Dreams . www.progreviews.com . 2009-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090703104014/http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=cam-dad . 3 July 2009 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peacock . Tim . 'Dust And Dreams': How Camel Found The Promised Land . uDiscoverMusic . June 26, 2022 . September 10, 2021 . Perhaps influenced by his new surroundings, the song cycle Latimer conceived was for a concept album evoking the spirit and themes of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer (and later Nobel) Prize-winning 1939 novel, The Grapes Of Wrath..