Waking the Dreaming Body is the follow-up to Tucson artist Karima Walker s 2017 standout album Hands In Our Names which garnered praise from Pitchfork MOJO and Bandcamp. The album includes dense harmonic arrangements of synthesizer guitar piano percussion field recordings tape loops and Karima s dulcet singing voice. The final result is a 40-minute dream-narrative of her conscious and subconscious minds that oscillates between the rich textures of her ambient work and the melody and poetry of her melancholic Americana-tinged songwriting their ebb and flow recalling liminal states of half-sleep where images and emotions are recalled and forecasted from the previous night s dreams. Night falls in regular intervals throughout the album forming a natural dialogue between waking and dreaming.Landscape has always played a huge role in her work. Throughout Waking the Dreaming Body Walker s uncanny sound design evokes the delicacy grandeur and terrifying enormity of the American Southwest. Close your eyes while listening to Horizon Harbor Resonance the thirteen-minute instrumental at the album s center and watch the shifting desert landscape in your mind s eye; from the babble of flash flood runoff to the slow parade of cumulus cloud shadows across the red earth cactus and creosote and then moving backwards in time the thunderous eruptions of ancient volcanoes that pushed the Tucson Mountains skyward.