On a Painted Ocean

Stillness can imply either tranquility or stagnation. Walt McClements grappled with these opposing forces in the years it took to realise 'On a Painted Ocean': a suite of searching accordion and pipe organ-led pieces that travel a steady course, swelling and expanding with a tide of tender emotion. The composer and multi-instrumentalist takes the title of his second album from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous epic The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and its depiction of a boat that's stalled at sea - As idle as a painted ship/Upon a painted ocean. It's an impression that mirrors both the process and the product of McClements's Western Vinyl release, from the gentle unfurling of a raw reed tone on opener 'A Painted Ship' to the gritty ebb and flow of effects-laden drone on 'Washed Up', and the closing flutter and signal interference that noisily builds toward triumphant euphoria on'Clattering'.

1: July Blue Skies
2: Sky Train Baby
3: Venus of Barsoon
4: Ikuchi
5: Summer of Synesthesia
6: Tsicroxe

Number of Discs: 1

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