The Ganges Orchestra was an occasional recording outfit consisting of Steve Coe, a featured vocalist or instrumentalist, and whoever else turned up at the studio. The resulting musical spontaneity was later structured, and polished at the mixing sessions.

During the 1980's Steve Coe would work on these one-off recordings in between producing Sheila Chandra solo albums for [l10158] records.
The Dream was the first recording Steve Coe made after working on the Monsoon project during 1982-83.