Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest gathers pieces composed between 2017 and 2023 into a continuous arc that feels less like a compilation and more like a slow, lucid dream. Across the album, Madli Marje Gildemann listens with almost scientific care to the smallest workings of the natural world – the secret exchanges of plants, the nocturnal trajectories of birds, the micro‑rhythms of an old‑growth forest – then lets imagination bloom around those observations. Her sound world is atmospheric and finely etched, alive with tiny details: a grain of friction here, a barely audible flutter there, patterns that only reveal themselves over time. Yet it also admits myth and metamorphosis, treating the forest not as scenery but as a sentient presence with its own shifting consciousness.

The sequence traces a path through distinct yet interconnected environments. Early pieces focus on botanic and avian processes, turning growth, photosynthesis and migratory navigation into delicate networks of tone, texture and pulse. Later, the perspective sinks deeper into the forest, where roots, fungi and soil seem to hum with dreamlike awareness, and where boundaries between living forms blur. Just when the landscape feels fully elemental, a human‑made machine appears – not as an intruder, but as another animated node in the web, its motors and circuits woven into the same acoustic fabric as leaves and wings. Throughout, Gildemann reveals rhythms and movements that normally escape notice, framing them with a calm, clear dramaturgy that makes the invisible feel tangible. Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forestultimately invites the listener into a heightened mode of attention, where the line between empirical listening and enchanted hearing dissolves, and where every rustle, click and resonance might be the forest briefly thinking out loud.