Awake in a Dream is the debut album of American hard rock band Eleven, released in 1991 on Morgan Creek Records. Singles from the album include “Break the Spell” (which was featured in the film Freejack) and “Rainbow’s End”, which had a music video released. A promotional EP titled Vowel Movement was also released, featuring alternate mixes of four songs on the album. The album is named for a line in the song “Learning to Be”. “You Are Mine” was heard in the 1991 sequel film Rock ’n’ Roll High School Forever. (More from Wikipedia)
Their opening album, Awake in a Dream (1991) was praised by Alex Henderson in Allmusic: “Eleven was a so-called alternative rock trio of the early 1990’s that drew heavily on the psychedelic rock and soul music of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Awake in a Dream is much too guitar-oriented to have been played on a Black radio station in 1970 or 1973; and yet, enjoyable selections like ‘Before Your Eyes’, 'All Together' and ‘Rainbow’s End’ make it clear that singer/guitarist Alain Johannes, bassist/singer/organist Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons have spent a lot of time listening to the likes of Sly and the Family Stone, Ike and Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder. Shneider is also heard on the clavinet, a synthesizer that was prominent in 1970’s soul and funk but was seldom used in the urban contemporary music that followed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.”
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