The release of 1987 on Boomslang Records marks Bernhard Hollinger’s album debut as a bandleader, bassist, and composer.

This record is dedicated to the impulsiveness and playfulness of dreams and the subconscious. The fascination for this concept has its origins in watching David Lynch’s Twin Peaks for the first time. Dreams, the mind and intuition remain vast, mysterious territories, whose ambiguity was pulling Bernhard in. He drew inspiration from Lynch’s aesthetics and symbolism, including the use of abstract, contrasting elements and breaking up time, thinking more in parallel dimensions and effect, leaving space for individual interpretation, projection and exploration. Sleeping Tapes pays tribute to the so-named audiobook by Jeff Bridges and rounds off the album as the only non-original track.

For this journey Bernhard was surrounded by an international group of highly talented and emerging, as well as established musicians, including e.g. Teis Semey, Grammy-nominated guitarist Ashton Sellars, August Baronas, Matthias van de Brande as well as New Orleans- based Larry Sieberth and Grammy-nominated trumpeter Ashlin Parker.