Here To Go is a poem and song born from the dreams of 23 people the week one of our dear friends died. The lyrics are woven from fragments of our collective dreams of her, carefully tended and re-assembled using the Burrows/ Bowie cut up technique.

Our collective dreams became a gathering place for grief, gratitude and a way to encounter the expansiveness and mystery of death. As we mourned the death and absence of our dear friend, her presence became stronger and more alive in our dream realms.

Here To Go explores the potency and healing that emerges from collective and community dreaming amid death and grief. It’s inspired by our anarchic friend and much-missed counter-cultural elder, Claudia Egypt Boulton. A dreamer in both life and death.

An evolving dream

Here To Go originated as a poem for Liverpool Arts Lab’s Bodge Magazine, then developed further into a soundscape collaboration with Rob Burnham of Occult Hardware and finally a song produced by Tim Arnold. 

Both tracks featured on the limited vinyl edition of the Toxteth Day of The Dead album produced by collaborators Lisa Lovebucket, Jimmy Cauty and Butterfly Effect Records. 

The project further developed in a collaboration with Skate Dog Films who created the video below.