Damian Dalla Torre is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer based in Leipzig, Germany. An artist in possession of a stand-out debut record with 2022s ‘Happy Floating’, he’s returning with sophomore follow-up ‘I Can Feel My Dreams’. An album cooked up between Europe and South America, Germany and Chile. A genre-collapsing collection of experimental, emotive and meditative compositions inspired by the creative potential of a transcultural network of artists around the world.


Born in Italy, Damian Dalla Torre studied jazz at the Vienna Conservatory, before relocating to his current base in Leipzig. From studying, then going onto play traditional jazz, the influence of electronic, techno and ambient music started to blend into Damian’s artistic output. By fusing these genres together, then gently detailing and warping the compositions with electronic production, Damian found a label home with Munich based Squama Recordings, champions of jazz-adjacent experimentalists who challenge the boundaries of traditional composition and recorded music.

The story of upcoming album I Can Feel My Dreams starts in Santiago, the capital of Chile, where Damian secured a residency to teach, write and practise his music. With the rush of being transplanted somewhere truly new, Damian found himself absorbing the technicolor vistas of Chile, the crimson sun, emerald forests, and deep blue mountains. He began making friends in the cities’ artist circles by going to an exhibition of two mutual friends of his from Leipzig, planting a seed of artistic universality in his mind.. The paintings and the artist's use of colours, especially blue, left a mark on Damians psyche - I Can Feel My Dreams was beginning to compose in his mind.

With these new experiences catalysing Damians creativity, he has incorporated inspirations from the place that helped inspire him. A flute found throughout the Andes, the Quena, can be heard across I can Feel My Dreams. Damian has also deftly folded in field recordings, of ambience and of birdsong, imbuing tracks with an almost ASMR like feel of being sat in a sun soaked plaza in Santiago or watching the sun rise on an early morning walk. The album is also hugely collaborative, from old friends and new, and from some impressive names within the experimental and compositional world, including Miriam Adefris, Ruth Goller, Christian Balvig, Jan Soutschek and many more (full credits below).

I Can Feel My Dreams, despite its expert use of minimalism, paints emotions with broad strokes. For Damian the tracks are the sound of interconnectedness, universality and commonality between us, of excitement and new experiences, but he’s keen to not make that the core of the listener's experience. Damian’s compositions on this album are willfully hazy in terms of definitive emotion, one listener might hear a track as wistful where another finds hope. Damian will agree however, that the tracks can be meditative, a tool for helping taking stock of thoughts and emotions. Whether sitting in your bedroom at home or hiking up a mountain, whether in Chile, Germany or any other corner of the world, I Can Feel My Dreams speaks in a universal language, telling different stories to different listeners.

Written, produced and mixed by Damian Dalla Torre
Mastered by Martin Ruch
Designed by Maximilian Schachtner

Miriam Adefris - harp (1, 2)
Christian Balvig - cello (1, 2, 3, 8)
Damian Dalla Torre - quena, flute, clarinet, bassclarinet, flute, organelle, tenor saxophone
Ruth Goller - electric bass (2)
Felix Römer - piano (2, 7)
Viola Blache - vocals (5, 8, 9)
Markus Rom - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo (3, 7, 9)
Finn Ronsdorf - vocals (4, 5)
Teresa Allgaier - violin (5, 7)
Bertram Burkert - nylon guitar, pedal steel guitar (5, 6)
Jan Soutschek - pedal steel guitar (5)
Laura Zöschg - vocals (7)
Jonas Timm - piano (9)


  • The Guardian

    19.07.24
    "Detailed enough to transcend the New Age tag, it’s a genuine contender for album of the year [...]"

    Damian Dalla Torre is a jazz saxophonist who barely plays any saxophone at all on his utterly divine and beatific latest album, I Can Feel My Dreams (Squama Recordings). Inspired by field recordings of nature made during a spell as an artist in residence in Chile, he assembles an international cast to create nine shimmering, dream-like meditations, pitched somewhere between jazz and ambient music. Detailed enough to transcend the New Age tag, it’s a genuine contender for album of the year, reminiscent of Floating Points’ collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and the Fourth World explorations of Jon Hassell.

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  • Electronic Sound (UK)

    12.07.24
    "You'll seldom feel as close to beauty's universal truth after you've engaged with the lushness of Damian Dalla Torre's second album."

    You'll seldom again feel as close to beauty's universal truth after you’ve engaged with the lushness of Damian Dalla Torre’s second album. The Italian multi-instrumentalist takes elements of gentle minimalism (the hypnotic 'Memo') and subtly experimental electronics, then marries them to an expansive sense of mysticism. Using harp, sampled choral voices and field recordings from South America and the flutelike warmth of the Andean quena, tracks ’Santi’ and 'Domenica' cast an alluring, vividly technicolour spell that you hope will never wear off.

  • Songlines Magazine


    "[...] a journey as strange, wondrous, revealing and beautiful as any Attenborough documentary. Ambient music for the head and the heart.”

    Leipzig-based saxophonist, composer and producer Damian Dalla Torre has been on the improvisation/experimental music scene for some time, working with notables such as Antonia Hausmann and the excellent Brigade Futur 3. Recorded during a university residency in Chile, for I Can Feel My Dreams Torre incorporates field recordings of forests and mountains surrounding Santiago, and makes particular use of the quena, a traditional Andean flute. Intoxicating soundscapes fill this record, and it's to Torre's great credit that at no point
    does anything feel predictable. Strangely beguiling fragments of guitar, flute, harp and piano drift and coalesce, forming shifting patterns over a backdrop of natural sounds. In I Can Feel My Dreams, Torre takes us on a journey as strange, wondrous, revealing and beautiful as any Attenborough documentary. Ambient music for the heart and the head.

  • Kulturnews

    18.07.24
    “Fühlt sich nach einem künftigen Klassiker des Ambient an.”

    Der Morgen eines schönen Sommertages lässt sich auf Social Media begrüßen, mit Frühsport oder Müsli. Unsere Empfehlung: Damian Dalla Torres neues Album auflegen, dazu ein Heißgetränk nach Wahl. Gerade wenn der Geist noch umnebelt ist, die Koordination nach acht Stunden in der Horizontalen noch wackelig, spürt man den soeben abgerissenen Träumen vortrefflich mit „I can feel my Dreams“ hinterher. Der studierte Jazzer Dalla Torre, der in der Experimental-Hochburg Leipzig lebt, gehört als Saxofonist zum Line-up feiner Bands wie der Crucchi Gang.
    Der Mann weiß, was gute Popsongs brauchen – und wie man sie dekonstruiert. Vielleicht ufern seine fein ziselierten Ambient-Kunstwerke deshalb nie ganz aus, bleiben ungreifbar und verträumt, aber nicht beliebig. Jede Menge Field Recordings, Harfen, Blasinstrumente, Stimmen und Gitarren sind in das Album geflossen – Dalla Torre hat sie in der Postproduktion so liebevoll verfremdet, dass sie nach warmherziger Filmmusik klingen. Fühlt sich nach einem künftigen Klassiker des Ambient an.


  • Some Other Time

    13.06.24
    Interview

    Leipzig-based tenor saxophonist, composer and producer, Damian Dalla Torre has shared his brand new single ‘Acryl’, taken from his upcoming record I Can Feel My Dreams. The track is an escapist, ambient collage that stirs the senses with its oscillating reverberations and an exciting indication of what is to come from the artist’s next project.

    The new record will follow on from Damian’s 2022 debut Happy Floating, an ambitious collection of sprawling, amorphous soundscapes that recognised his ability to paint from a palette of disparate influences. With his new single, he continues to work in technicolour as he further refines his experimental blend of Jazz and Electronic music. Ahead of the release of his new single, we caught up with Damian to find out a little more about about his roots as an artist and the genesis of his upcoming record.

    Growing up in Italy, what was your first introduction to music?

    My grandmother had a neighbour, "Franzl," who played baritone saxophone in the local music band. I was about 4 years old, and whenever I visited, I was allowed to take a look at this honey-golden shimmering instrument in its case lined with ruby-red velvet. Since then, the fascination with this instrument has never left me.

    You studied Jazz in Vienna, those early years are of course, crucial in establishing the blueprint of your artistry. What were the most important lessons you learned during your time there?

    Being accepted into the conservatory in Vienna was a dream come true for me and marked the starting point for the professionalisation of my music career. I still vividly remember feeling completely overwhelmed when I first attended ensemble class; all my fellow students were at such a high level, and I could hardly believe that I would have the opportunity to grow in such an environment over the coming years. I think what these years have taught me is to work hard develop a vision, and stick to it consistently, as well as the importance of an openness to all genres of music, meeting like-minded people, connecting with them, exchanging ideas, and learning from them.

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  • Damian Dalla Torre


    Damian Dalla Torre is an Italian multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer based in Leipzig, Germany. After his 2022 debut ‘Happy Floating’, he’s returning to Squama with sophomore follow-up ‘I Can Feel My Dreams’. From studying, then going onto play traditional jazz, the influence of electronic, techno and ambient music started to blend into Damian’s artistic output, fusing these genres together, and then gently detailing and warping the compositions with electronic production.

    • I Can Feel My Dreams

      180g vinyl

      € 25
      • Happy Floating

        180g vinyl, riso-printed inlay

        € 25