Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology

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 Coopers sonic reflection on Hong Kongs Lamma Island is similar, combining the islands ubiquitous barking dogs with the slurp of waves on rocky shores, conjuring a languorous time before Chinese crackdowns on the territory.

Tracks

1~1~A1. Sugai Ken - Boundary
1~2~A2. Andrew Pekler - Shima No Yume (From Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology)
1~3~A3. The Dead Mauriacs - Diffe´Rents Aspects D'Un Aquapel Recompose´ (Edit)
1~4~A4. Vica Pacheco - Taciturno (From Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology)
1~5~B1. Mike Cooper - Lamma Island
1~6~B2. Babau - Enshrined Underflow
1~7~B3. Francesco Cavaliere &Amp; Tomoko Sauvage -Ficus Leaves In Apnea
1~8~B4. Sculpture - Froth Surfer
1~9~B5. Yannick Dauby - Navigation

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 30 September 2022
Genre: Rock
Label: Discrepant
Distributor: MGM Music