Channeling his background in classical music, SUUNS’ Ben Shemie combines string fractals, manipulated vocals, and synth-powered chaos to bridge the universes of past, present, and future. Recommended If You Like: Floating Points, Stars of the Lid, SUUNS, FACS, Peaking Lights, Jerusalem In My Heart. When you receive it, when its sounds in motion light up your mind's eye, it is created in collaboration with you. Ryan says, "The album’s story is an allegory for the emergence of mind and meaning from the matter of the universe, and its eventual fading, with a glimmer of hope at the end." It was mixed by Nicholas Principe and mastered by Kramer. They recorded Emerald Sea in collaboration with Jon Sonneberg at Ka-Boom studio in Ohio.
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"I always saw her as a shadow figure that I couldn’t quite figure out." In its current cycle, Sound of Ceres is Derrick Bozich, songwriter, harpist, and flautist Jacob Graham, synthesist, costumer, and light designer K Hover, vocalist, lyricist, costumer, and choreographer and Ryan Hover, songwriter and producer. "I envisioned myself journeying through these different realms - space, the land, the sea, the heavens - and following Marina's character," says k. In every intimacy human beings cultivate, every rush of connection, no matter how fleeting, we reenact the universe for ourselves. These stories are two views of the same fractal. In the closest frame, two people encounter each other, grow close, and then separate. In the widest frame, the universe begins, meets itself, and ends. Connection and severance, joy and grief, wonder and bewilderment all tumble through its scope. Through a dazzling suite of songs inspired by Les Baxter's mid-century exotica, Maurice Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé, and Gustav Holst's The Planets, Emerald Sea studies intimacy on both an interpersonal scale and a cosmological one. And there is Venus, transformer of matter and avatar of love, sung by the group's lead vocalist Karen Hover (who goes by k). There is the Universe, all that exists, voiced by performance artist Marina Abramovic.
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Written in three acts, Emerald Sea follows two deities who trail each other through the furthest reaches of experience. In its dreamlike impressions, it could also be the soundtrack to a long-forgotten early musical film - an experience that delighted and transported audiences and then vanished from record, surviving only in the imprint of memory. Rendered in dynamic, ambitious orchestral passages, it forms the basis of future stage performances intended to draw its half-submerged narrative into the visual sphere. Recommended If You Like: Beach House, Les Baxter, Candy Claws, Marina Abramovic, Fine Art, Vintage Disney.Įmerald Sea, the third album from New York-based audiovisual project Sound of Ceres, tells the story of how the universe comes to know itself. “Tadic’s melody here is part of that Brian Wilson lineage … she sets those notes adrift with a casually graceful minimalism… It evokes a pleasant stroll through a city at the moment when night begins to fall on a daydream.” Stereogum. "Pet Town is delightfully airy a set of songs that have drifted in on a breeze from some strange and foreign landscape you won't find on any map.” Gold Flake Paint. The result is the most realized Eerie Wanda album yet, building on the project's guitar pop past for a more experimental, other worldly, serious grown-up affair that ventures into sensitive, motional territory. Internal Radio documents Tadic becoming the artist she wants to be, working through some things, and even exorcizing a few demons. Guided by intuition, Tadic's songs use haunting, ethereal space, growing whole universes from the seeds of ideas. Eerie Wanda's Marina Tadic draws you into her inner worlds on these 11 new songs produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Unrest, Ween, Daniel Johnston.) On Internal Radio, the new album by Eerie Wanda, visual artist and musician Marina Tadic welcomes you to her inner world.