Aquapelago: an Oceans Anthology, by Various Artists

Aquapelago: an Oceans Anthology

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1.	Sugai Ken - Boundary 03:08	buy track
2.	Andrew Pekler - Shima No Yume 06:07	buy track
3.	The Dead Mauriacs - The Dead Mauriacs - Différents aspects d'un aquapel recomposé (edit) 03:48	buy track
4.	Vica Pacheco - Taciturno 05:18	buy track
5.	Mike Cooper - Lamma Island 04:05	buy track
6.	Babau - Enshrined Underflow 03:33	buy track
7.	Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage - Ficus leaves in apnea 03:00	buy track
8.	Sculpture - Froth Surfer 03:48	buy track
9.	Yannick Dauby - Navigation 04:32	buy track

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An anthology introducing the first of a series of albums based on the concept of Aquapelago.

"This compilation album takes the concept of the aquapelago into new depths and breaches it on fresh shores. The tracks are soaked with the aquatic. Bassy sonorities boom as if heard deep underwater. Bubbly textures breach the surface, water drips and seabirds soar high above waves. Sugai Kei samples fragments of text concerning the Ningen, a fantastic humanoid/whale that reflects the ‘aquapelagic imaginary’ of modern Japan and its preoccupation with industrial whaling. Andrew Pekler continues the orientation of his Phantom Islands project - a sonic atlas of imaginary places - with a soundscape as if heard by a swimmer just offshore, mixing sounds of the island and the sea together. Mike Cooper’s sonic reflection on Hong Kong’s Lamma Island is similar, combining the island’s ubiquitous barking dogs with the slurp of waves on rocky shores, conjuring a languorous time before Chinese crackdowns on the territory.

Taking another tack, the Dead Mauriacs gleefully water-ski through collage of tropical island exoticisms, replete with glitchy orientalism, while Babau combines skittering idiophone melodies with resonant glissandi. Vica Pacheco moves between dense and airy sounds, as if crossing between surf lines and the space above. Yannkick Dauby’s track is also imbued with in-betweenness, evoking ambient sounds heard through a ship’s hull. Sculpture’s ‘Froth Surfer’ realises its title, with bubbling sounds and rhythms that evoke Hawaiian surfing filtered through layers of time and distance. Reminding us of the shore necessary for aquapelagic spaces, Franceso Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage’s composition anchors the album, centred around shaken rhythms and resonant ringing tones and drones.

Taken together, the album sketches the contours of the aquapelago as it might be imagined and conjured in sound – an endless oceanic realm that laps on to beaches and crashes against cliffs. The performers navigate this space under alternately starry and cloudy skies, orientating themselves with sounds, textures and sonic samples of their terrestrial homes while we float with them." - Philip Hayward. "

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released September 30, 2022

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Evan Crankshaw

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