{{Infobox album | name = Rock Dream | type = live | artist = [[Boris (band)|Boris]] with [[Merzbow]] | cover = Rockdream.gif | alt = | released = {{Start date|2007|10|27}} | recorded = November 2006 in Tokyo | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = {{Duration|m=110|s=30}} | label = [[Diwphalanx Records|Diwphalanx]] | producer = | prev_title = [[Sun Baked Snow Cave]] | prev_year = 2005 | next_title = [[Walrus / Groon]] | next_year = 2007 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Boris (band)|Boris]] | type = live | prev_title = [[She's So Heavy]] | prev_year = 2007 | title = Rock Dream | year = 2007 | next_title = [[Smile (Boris album)|Smile]] | next_year = 2008 }} {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Merzbow]] | type = live | prev_title = Peace for Animals | prev_year = 2007 | title = Rock Dream | year = 2007 | next_title = Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 | next_year = 2008 }} {{Extra album cover | header = US Cover | type = live | cover = Boris merzbow rock dream.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = Southern Lord version cover }} }} '''''Rock Dream''''' is a collaborative live album between Japanese band [[Boris (band)|Boris]] and Japan [[noise music]]ian [[Merzbow]].
==Production== ''Rock Dream'' was recorded live in November 2006 at Tokyo's Earthdom festival.<ref name="allmusic" />
==Style== Thom Jurek of [[AllMusic]] noted that the album was nothing like ''[[Sun Baked Snow Cave]]'', a previous collaboration between [[Boris (band)|Boris]] and [[Merzbow]].<ref name="allmusic" /> Jurek noted that the music was not a "free-form improvisation and noise fest".<ref name="allmusic" />
==Release== ''Rock Dream'' was released on October 26, 2007, on the Japanese music label [[Diwphalanx Records]].<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205092601/http://www.diwphalanx.com/old/old20070930.htm|url=http://www.diwphalanx.com/old/old20070930.htm|title=Old|language=ja|publisher=[[Diwphalanx Records]]|access-date=April 3, 2017|archive-date=December 5, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The American label [[Southern Lord]] released the album in 2008 on compact disc and vinyl.<ref name="southern-lord">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525112628/http://www.southernlord.com/index2.php|publisher=[[Southern Lord Records|Southern Lord]]|title=Boris w/ Merzbow-"Rock Dream" 3xLP|access-date=April 3, 2017|url=http://www.southernlord.com/index2.php|archive-date=May 25, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525171802/http://www.southernlord.com/store.php|access-date=April 3, 2017|publisher=Southern Lord|title=Southern Lord Records|url=http://www.southernlord.com:80/store.php|archive-date=May 25, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The vinyl version includes the track "Dyno-Saur" that is not included on either version of CD releases.<ref name="southern-lord" /> The American version had packaging designed by [[Stephen O'Malley]], with their printer stating that they "never ever make anything like this again as it was painfully time-consuming and took forever to get just right!"<ref name="southern-lord" /> This was a limited release with the label stating that there were "a little over 3800" manufactured in total.<ref name="southern-lord" />
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-dream-mw0000750737|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|title=Rock Dream|last=Jurek|first=Thom|access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Austin Chronicle]]'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="ac-review" /> }} The ''[[Austin Chronicle]]'' discussed the album in their overview of Boris' career, declaring it "definitive live document, an impossibly dense double album that touches down on nearly every point of their career, from ''[[Dronevil]]'' to ''[[Smile (Boris album)|Smile]]'''s contorted stairway to heaven ("Flower Sun Rain"), with Merzbow's electronic manipulations stitching it all together like connective scar tissue."<ref name="ac-review">{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-06-27/640056/|work=[[Austin Chronicle]]|title=Six, Three Times|date=June 27, 2008|access-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006030000/http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-01-04/577251/|archive-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> In 2008, Raoul Hernandez of the ''[[Austin Chronicle]]'' placed ''Rock Dream'' on his list of top ten albums of 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-01-04/577251/|work=Austin Chronicle|title=Wincing the Year Away|date=January 4, 2008|last=Hernandez|first=Raoul|access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref>
In a retrospective review from [[Tiny Mix Tapes]], declared ''Rock Dream'' to be "not just the best album Boris ever made, but also one of the finest live albums I’ve ever heard." and that "It’s incredible then that someone recorded Boris and Merzbow that night, because for two hours they got to be the best band on the planet."<ref name="tmt">{{cite web |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/boris-with-merzbow-rock-dream |title=Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream |last=Bowe |first=Miles |date=May 31, 2013 |website=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]] |access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref>
==Track listing== ===CD version=== {{Track listing | headline = Disc one | total_length = 49:58 | title1 = Feedbacker | note1 = Originally from ''[[Boris at Last: -Feedbacker-]]'' | length1 = 35:05 | title2 = Blackout | note2 = Originally from ''[[Pink (Boris album)|Pink]]'' | length2 = 5:19 | title3 = Evil Stack | length3 = 5:04 | title4 = Rainbow | note4 = Originally from ''[[Rainbow (Boris with Michio Kurihara album)|Rainbow]]'' | length4 = 4:30 }} {{Track listing | headline = Disc two | total_length = 60:32 | title1 = Pink | note1 = Originally from ''Pink'' | length1 = 4:14 | title2 = Woman on the Screen | note2 = Originally from ''Pink'' | length2 = 2:37 | title3 = Nothing Special | note3 = Originally from ''Pink'' | length3 = 2:14 | title4 = Ibitsu | note4 = Originally from ''[[Akuma no Uta]]'' | length4 = 3:35 | title5 = [[A Bao A Qu (song)|A Bao A Qu]] | note5 = Originally from ''[[Sound Track from Film "Mabuta no Ura"]]'' | length5 = 4:35 | title6 = The Evilone Which Sobs | note6 = Originally from ''[[Dronevil]]'' | length6 = 13:41 | title7 = Flower Sun Rain | note7 = [[PYG (band)|PYG]] cover, later released on ''[[Smile (Boris album)|Smile]]'' | length7 = 8:04 | title8 = Just Abandoned My-self | note8 = Originally from ''Pink'' | length8 = 13:21 | title9 = Farewell | note9 = Originally from ''Pink'' | length9 = 8:11 }}
===LP version=== {{Track listing | headline = Side one | total_length = | title1 = Feedbacker (Part One) | note1 = | length1 = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | total_length = | title1 = Feedbacker (Part Two) | note1 = | length1 = | title2 = Black Out | note2 = | length2 = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side three | total_length = | title1 = Evil Stack | note1 = | length1 = | title2 = Rainbow | note2 = | length2 = | title3 = Pink | note3 = | length3 = | title4 = Woman on the Screen | note4 = | length4 = | title5 = Nothing Special | note5 = | length5 = | title6 = Ibitsu | note6 = | length6 = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side four | total_length = | title1 = A Bao A Qu | note1 = | length1 = | title2 = The Evilone Which Sobs | note2 = | length2 = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side five | total_length = | title1 = Flower Sun Rain | note1 = | length1 = | title2 = Just Abandon My-self | note2 = | length2 = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side six | total_length = | title1 = Farewell | note1 = | length1 = | title2 = Dyna-saur | note2 = Bonus track, Originally from ''[[Heavy Rocks (2002 album)|Heavy Rocks]]'' | length2 = }}
==Personnel== ;Merzbow with Boris *Takeshi – [[singing|vocals]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[electric guitar|guitar]] *Wata – vocals, guitar, echo *Atsuo – [[drum]]s, [[percussion]], vocals *Masami Akita – [[EMS Synthi A]], computer, hand made instruments, effects ;Production *Yasuaki Satake – P.A engineer *Kazu – recording *Souichiro Nakamura at Peace Music – mixing, mastering *Fangsanalsatan – design [Diwphalanx] *Shizu – drawing [Diwphalanx] *[[Stephen O'Malley|SOMA]] – design [Southern Lord] *Thomas Hooper – drawing [Southern Lord] *Miki Matsushima – photo [Southern Lord]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{MusicBrainz release-group|id=55b1383d-7138-39ff-a617-1131ff78d85c|name=Rock Dream}}
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