Manpreet Kundi paces her single “Don’t Wake Me” like a casual stroll down a luminous, fog enshrouded pathway. Her breathy vocals sketches memories and hopes mixed together in the infinite potential of life in dreams. During the course of the song Kundi examines her feelings and desires for life with a spirit of gentleness and asking no one wake her from this state where the mind is whole and functioning outside the divide of rational and irrational, emotional and logical, we assume during our waking moments. In the state of lucid dreaming suggested by Kundi’s lyrics we are perhaps most free to reach toward personal truths that can manifest in beneficial consequences for life once we wake up if we indulge the time to go with the flow of what might be called dreamtime in the sense of the Aboriginal concept and our connection to it as an intuitive process that synthesizes all aspects of our minds. Kundi sings about this in a more poetic fashion utilizing imagery and experiences from dreams but the message is clear that we want ourselves and others to allow us to learn to trust our best internal voices in self-healing and to make our most authentic choices. The soothing, dream pop in which Kundi sets her song to spare piano, ethereal strings and washes of synth only makes the heady content more easily accessible. Listen to “Don’t Wake Me” on Spotify and connect with Manpreet Kundi at the links below.
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