The booklet with El Cielo contains letters written by sufferers of sleeping disorders with descriptions of various experiences with or relating to sleep paralysis.

In other words, it’s about ‘drawing music.’' It is as if one stimulus awakens other senses. It is recommended that you view this painting as you listen to El Cielo. This is further supported by the translation of the Japanese spoken words from the beginning of 'The Canyon Behind Her' – 'This album was inspired by a painting titled: ‘Dream Caused By the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening’.

Band members have been quoted as saying that this Dali painting is sleep paralysis, a literal representation of the condition from which Dali’s wife actually suffered. Also pictured is a woman laying in a canyon ('The Canyon Behind Her').

The painting was unveiled in 1944 and clearly influences many of the album’s core themes and song titles, for example a long-legged elephant ('An Elephant In The Delta Waves') with a papal insignia upon its back ('The Papal Insignia' was a song recorded for El Cielo but only saw release of Industry Demos, recorded in 2001 and didn’t make it onto El Cielo). One of dredg’s main influences on the album, El Cielo, was a painting by Salvador Dalí entitled Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, which is also what the acronym in 'Brushstroke: dcbtfoabaaposba' stands for. The title can be translated to mean 'the sky' or 'heaven' in Spanish, and to mean 'peace and freedom of expression' in dreams. Like dredg’s first album, Leitmotif, El Cielo is a concept album. El Cielo is dredg ‘s second album, released on October 8, 2002.

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