Every Monday throughout 2023 I will be highlighting a different piece of music that I have either written or been closely involved with. And this week, prepare to enjoy the delights of a standard piece of DIY equipment because it’s…


What’s it called?
I Saw Him In My Dreams.

What’s it from?
According to the apocryphal tales, ‘The Attack of the Dancing Demon Lollipop Man from Hell’ was to be the crowning glory in the career of esteemed filmmaker Armando Allegro, telling the story of an ordinary man who becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil road safety officer (with horrific consequences). Sadly the film itself has been lost forever, however parts of the soundtrack did survive to be later reconstructed by myself and the enigmatic Mister James Ure. This EP, released in 2022, is the result of those reconstructions.

What’s it all about?
This is some low-level-creepy background music that was presumably originally written to play in the background of a scene, and give it a general air of unease and supernatural mystery.

Listen out for…
The really really REALLY clever way it turns itself backwards over its duration. This was achieved by first taking the completed piece, reversing it, and superimposing this back-to-front version over the original. Then the forwards version was gradually faded out while at the same time its backwards counterpart was gradually faded in, meaning that over the course of the piece it imperceptibly morphs into its own retrograde. You can hear this most clearly by comparing the noise at 0:25 with its reversed counterpart at 3:05.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, the title is actually a pun on the jazz standard ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams’, but tweaked to accommodate the fact this piece features a solo musical saw.

Find out more at…
www.michaelgrantmusician.com/lollipop