"It was almost dream-like," Nairne said.
I always think of this place, the immense stillness of it, the exquisiteness, it's almost dream-like.
Recorded, mainly at night, in the basement of the XL studios the melancholic, almost dream-like, album wowed critics when it was released, featuring highly in NME and Rolling Stone's "best of the year" lists.
Painted alternatively on plain white and black backgrounds, framed by exquisitely delicate trompe l'oeil decorative architecture, the landscapes, buildings, human and animal images are sketched with deft Impressionistic brush strokes in pastel colors, creating an almost dream-like effect.
An Artist of the Floating World presents, with the menace of an almost dream-like calm, the reminiscences of a retired painter in the aftermath of a national disaster.
Mr Burnside lives in a fishing village on the coast of Fife, and this awareness of the dangerous lives of fishermen (a whole male line might be destroyed in a single night) plays a crucial, though subliminal, role in this book, whose viewpoint seems to be one of almost dream-like observation of the coastal terrain and its people.
But here, despite occasional bursts of laughter, the atmosphere is one of quiet, almost dreaming concentration.
And only a hand-scrawled page or three of A4 can capture the glorious and almost dreaming exuberance of thought that sometimes anticipates the day's first cup of coffee.
It has a stylized, episodic element to it, almost dream-like.
