Tucker Zimmerman - Dream Me A Dream *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 19th June 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Surreal folk banjo, violin, swirling organ paired with delicate analogue synths, Moog & electronic beauty. Tucker Zimmerman’s last studio album Dream Me A Dream is full of soul, vulnerability and breathtaking atmospheres. It was completed in 2025 and features his wife Marie-Claire, award winning folk artist Jackie Oates and producer Nick Holton.In October last year Tucker wrote some words about what the album was and how it all began- “...The Little Prince by way of the pen of Antoine de Saint Exupéry said ‘Draw me a sheep’ and I said to the the Little Prince ‘Dream me a dream’ overheard by Nick HOO (Big Potato Nick) who said ‘Record me a song’ so I recorded a song and then one or two more and just like that whip crack away and snap dragon fingers we had an album and just like that pump up the jambalaya and kick the chandelier Nick’s got the tracks mixed and mastered and pressed into 12” discs that say hallelujah and great balls of fire on the cover and that’s all I’m going to say about the outer wheels of this wagon as it rolls into your life the inner clockworks too intricate and deep to make language suffer so if you want more go to the Little Prince ask him to draw you a Dream of Now and Memory…” T. Zimmerman 14/10/25 Tucker embraced and re-discovered the electronica adventures of his younger self (Over Here In Europe & Words Games). Some of these songs date back to the sixties but most were written while recording during two sessions in 2024/25. His performances of them, in his garden studio in rural Liege are exquisite. Tucker leapt into mixing up sparse banjo/violin/swirling organ arrangements on some tracks with orchestral Moog, analogue synths and processed piano backings on others. Musically, it is a wonderful departure in every sense. Tucker was in his eighties and this LP sounds like nothing else he recorded. 'Sun In Scorpio' is a deliberately delicate slow opener, creating beautiful spaces for gently plucked synths and melodic bursts. In contrast, the title track 'Dream Me a Dream’ - based on his poem from his first book When In Flows The Sea - is lovely intimate folk with plucked banjo, roomy backing and violin. Both these sound palettes are given room to open out on subsequent tracks via processed piano, Moog and wonderful orchestral analogue synth. The surreal spoken word sound-scape of Rooftops is based on a poem Tucker wrote aged 19. His voice sounds so powerful as he repeats the line “rooftops of San Francisco” over hypnotic Harmonia-like patterns until you are swept up in his visionary youthful dreams.

‘Rose Of Sharon' about the dark side of the hippie movement in California. Young girls being coerced by various cults. Recorded with both Tucker & Nick on the synths. It edges towards the psychedelic, almost Krautyrock style of HOO (Tucker’s sonic inspiration for the album) with Jackie Oates beautiful voice and violin raising the music skywards. Although frail when recording Tucker’s vocals are full of energy - it rocks!

“Tucker and I had long chats during the recording. And we went very deep on occasions focusing on love, fear & the future. He mentioned he'd never recorded a cover version, but that his dear friend Annie (Adrianne Lenker) had written this wonderful song. It's called ’Stay (Wanted You To Stay)’ and this version was for/to his love Marie-Claire.” Nick Holton (producer)

“Zimmerman, adored by David Bowie and Big Thief alike, conjures up a kind of Arcadian folk surrealism that is utterly his own” MOJO Andrew Male

“Tucker is one of the greatest songwriters of all time” Adrainne Lenker Big Thief

Tracklisting:

A
1 Sun in Scorpio
2 Dream Me a Dream
3 Orion Comes Down To Walk The Land
4 Don’t Feel Like Doing Nothing Today
5 Wolf Run
B
6 Rose Of Sharon
7 Riding Around In My Dreams
8 Lovers Of Beggar St.
9 Rooftops of San Francisco
10 Stay (I want you To Stay)
11 Cross Walk

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