Wildest Dreams

Personnel: Harvey W. Bassett (vocals, guitar, drums); Sergio Rios (guitar); Dan Hastie (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, organ); Ethan Phillips (bass guitar).Audio Mixer: Sergio Rios.Recording information: Killionsound, North Hollywood, CA.Packaged in Sasha Tessio's explicit homage to the cover of Randy California's 1972 solo debut Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds, Wildest Dreams involves Harvey W. Bassett (aka DJ Harvey) supported by three members of Orgone: keyboardist Dan Hastie, bassist Ethan Phillips, and guitarist Sergio Rios. Bassett, who plays guitar, the drums, and sings, wrote and produced it all. It's scuzzier and trippier than Map of Africa, Bassett's mid- to late-2000s alliance with Thomas Bullock. The same can be said of this album's relation to Orgone's output, with most of that group's funk and soul washed out in place of reverberant psych and acid rock, along with the odd diversion into lax boogie-AOR fusion. Seemingly laid down with dreams of traveling back