Brigitte Beraha’s Lucid Dreamers - new album and UK live dates, September 2025.

Saturday, August 02, 2025

Vocalist & songwriter Brigitte Beraha and her band Lucid Dreamers will release their new album "Teasing Reflections" on 12th September 2025, followed by a short series of UK live dates.

We have received the following press release;

Brigitte Beraha’s Lucid Dreamers
TEASING REFLECTIONS
Let Me Out Records – LMOCD004
Album release (CD & digital): Friday 12 September 2025

CONCERT DATES

18 September – Bristol, The Bebop Club

19 September – Birmingham Jazz, 1000 Trades

20 September – Newtown, Hafan Yr Afon

24 September – London, The Vortex (album launch)

Teasing Reflections is the third album by Lucid Dreamers, the ensemble led by vocalist and composer Brigitte Beraha, featuring George Crowley (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, electronics), Alcyona Mick (piano, synth) and Tim Giles (drums, percussion, electronics). All acclaimed bandleaders, the quartet’s deep musical rapport - refined over years of collaboration - is immediately apparent. Each musician contributes to the album’s balance of structure and spontaneity, shaping a sound that is both exploratory and cohesive.

Beraha’s seven original compositions touch on themes of communication, destiny, identity and meaning – exploring both the absurdity and profundity of language, politics and the human experience. Her distinctive compositional voice shines through, combining lyrical beauty, social commentary and free-spirited improvisation.

The opening track ‘Words’ sets the tone with a nonsensical ‘speech’ delivered with confident conviction by all four band members (plus Alex Bonney, who also mixed and mastered the album). The piece satirises political rhetoric before giving way to an honest, emotive and comedic collective improvisation – a bold statement of intent. ‘White Noise’ begins as a spacious, almost rock-inflected ballad. It evokes themes of displacement, conflict and resilience, with a stirring interplay between voice, piano and saxophone underpinned by a heartbeat of pulsing drums. ‘Arnaud’ (Parts I & II) offers a cinematic depiction of a life’s unfolding – from playful childhood to a determined march toward destiny. A combination of improvised textures, melodic motifs and evolving rhythms captures the unpredictability of a personal journey. ‘The Matrix’ poses existential questions in one of the album’s most jazz-inflected moments – a spacious, contemplative ballad where voice, piano and saxophone dance around the question of agency and fate. ‘Moonstruck’, reimagined from Beraha’s solo album By the Cobbled Path (2021), is a hypnotic, atmospheric work. It begins with an intimate voice-and-drums improvisation giving way to a poem which evokes hazy insomniac nights, the impermanence of things and light dancing and shifting, with all its ‘teasing reflections’.  ‘What Does It Mean (to be)’ closes the album with a memorable melody and a quietly profound message – a gentle yet powerful reflection on human purpose and connection.

With Teasing Reflections Beraha and Lucid Dreamers invite listeners on a dreamlike, thought-provoking journey. From the ridiculous to the sublime, the album is both playful and profound, exploring what it means to be human. “This album is deeply personal, reflecting both my own experiences and those of others in relation to this crazy and wonderful world that we live in,” says Beraha. “Playing and improvising with George, Alcyona and Tim is a pure joy, and I am so happy to be able to share what was captured in the studio.”

Teasing Reflections is released on Let Me Out Records in association with ECN Music.

Recorded at Livingston Studios on 3 December 2024, engineered by Marcus Locock and Riley Spencer, mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney and produced by Beraha.

Brigitte Beraha: https://www.brigitteberaha.com/

Let Me Out Records: https://www.letmeoutrecords.com/

Brigitte Beraha is a celebrated British/Turkish jazz vocalist, composer and lyricist, renowned for her adventurous style and use of the voice as an instrument. Her multicultural upbringing informs a sound that blends jazz, Latin, classical and electronic influences. Early albums Prelude to a Kiss (2005) and Flying Dreams (2008) mixed jazz standards with original compositions, while By the Cobbled Path (2021) explored electronic textures. With her ensemble Lucid Dreamers, she released Lucid Dreamers (2020) and Blink (2022), the latter supported by Arts Council England. A frequent collaborator (Babelfish, Solstice) and respected educator, she has earned Jazz FM, Parliamentary Jazz and Ivors Composer Awards nominations.

Distribution via ECN Music/Proper Music: https://propermusic.com/

ECN Music: https://ecnmusic.com/