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The folks behind bi-yearly magazine Esopus recently decided to make some dreams come true-- through the magic of song!

Guest editor (and Pitchfork contributor) Mike Powell, you see, assembled a crack team of musical types to tackle the sleepytime dreamstuff, however whimsical, weird, or worrying, of Esopus readers-- and now the fruits of their labors have been bundled onto a CD set to accompany the ninth issue of the magazine, which shipped to subscribers this week and will hit newstands the second week of November.

Readers were invited to submit writeups detailing their dreams, and 11 acts-- among them, Califone, Dirty Projectors, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Ida-- each chose one to interpret musically. If you haven't already done so, do check out the Projectors' "One Kill"-- inspired by subconscious wanderings of an Austin-based Esopus reader-- over in Forkcast. The complete tracklist follows.

Esopus CD #9: Dreams:

01 Black Moth Super Rainbow: "One Day I Had an Extra Toe"
02 White Whale: "A Heavenly Light That Shines"
03 Paavoharju: "Sumuvirsi"
04 Hank: "Me and My Daddy Are Walking in the Desert"
05 Ida: "Moon Flower"
06 Dirty Projectors: "One Kill"
07 High Places: "Oceanus"
08 Califone: "Two/The Machinery in Your Stomach Has Everything to Do With Your Dreams"
09 Lucy Wainwright Roche: "Poison"
10 Ta'Raach & the Lovelution: "Montparnasse"
11 Cheval Sombre: "I Sleep"