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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Aquapelago: an Oceans Anthology
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DISCREPANT
CATALOG #
CREP 090LP
CREP 090LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2022
Anthology introducing the first of a series of albums based on the concept of Aquapelago. "Since the earliest days of the planet there has been a rhythm of tides that creates coastal interzones where humans have foraged and pursued various livelihoods. Developing boats to fish from and technologies that enabled them to immerse themselves deep underwater, the aquatic realm has been one explored, experienced and imagined in various ways. In an effort to express the vitality and richness of this environment I coined the term aquapelago in 2012. The wordplay was deliberate. The neologism was designed to distinguish the liquid inbetweenness of this space from the dry, scattered, lands of archipelagos. The concept of the aquapelago coalesced around themes taken from various places . . .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' realizes 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..." --
Philip Hayward
, December 2021
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