New album inspired by William Heinesen’s celebrated Faroese novel and created from the music for Dreamers’ Circus’ acclaimed stage collaboration with Aaben Dans. Dreamers’ Circus The Lost Musicians, is an album born from one of the trio’s most ambitious cross-disciplinary projects to date. The music was originally composed for De Fortabte..., a stage production created together with Danish contemporary dance company Aaben Dans and inspired by Faroese author William Heinesen’s classic novel The Lost Musicians. Premiered in Roskilde in 2024, the production brought together live music, movement and storytelling and culminated in a run of ten sold-out performances. For Dreamers’ Circus, the project opened up a different way of composing. Rather than writing music for the concert stage, the trio created almost an hour of material in dialogue with dancers, characters, images and the dramatic world of Heinesen’s story. The resulting music moves between the intimate and the theatrical, the playful and the unsettling, while remaining rooted in the distinctive musical language Dreamers’ Circus have developed from Nordic traditional music, classical music and improvisation. On the album, Faroese actor Olaf Johannessen takes the role of narrator, reading a series of excerpts from Heinesen’s writing. Dreamers’ Circus weave music around and beneath his voice, making the spoken word an integral part of the music itself. The four excerpts - Nocturne, Abyss, Reverie and Vigil - appear throughout the record, creating a narrative thread across its 17 tracks. The album also features vocal ensemble Ars Nova, further extending the sound world beyond the trio itself. Alongside the original music written for the production, the album features Dreamers’ Circus’ distinctive interpretations of Schubert’s Ständchen and the centuries-old La Folia theme, both woven into the musical world of the production. What began as music created for a fleeting theatrical experience has now been given a second life. The Lost Musicians preserves the atmosphere of the original production while allowing the music to exist on its own - as a journey through a world that is by turns lyrical, strange, dark, humorous and dreamlike.