When you're asleep, you're you. When you wake up, you are, as well. But how that works, how we can be as ethereal as vapor at night and then feel so solid during the day, is more than a little strange. The common light that persists through all of our states of mind is elusive.

On Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, the new record by Michael Zapruder, we just might glimpse that light. Dragon is a record of contrasts and oddities that moves with easy logic from the everyday to the everynight, ...