Label: Pure Chords
Release Date: January 2014
Ocean Star Empire -- made up of Namad Moon, Killik and Faxi Nadu, representing the ‘Three Dots on the Map’ Portugal, Germany, and Israel respectively – is a new combination of talent for the early part of the year that’s produced a extremely spacey Goa/Psy-Trance album, most definitely made for listeners’ own audio-visual input (Or of a hallucinogenic kind) for Sci-fi writers this is the kind of music I think is good to utilize for influence, and with so many movies with these themes currently you’d think that someone would use it within their scores and soundtracks… *shrugs*. Especially as they – Ocean Star – themselves describe it: “…vision morphed into action.”
Ocean Star Empire -- made up of Namad Moon, Killik and Faxi Nadu, representing the ‘Three Dots on the Map’ Portugal, Germany, and Israel respectively – is a new combination of talent for the early part of the year that’s produced a extremely spacey Goa/Psy-Trance album, most definitely made for listeners’ own audio-visual input (Or of a hallucinogenic kind) for Sci-fi writers this is the kind of music I think is good to utilize for influence, and with so many movies with these themes currently you’d think that someone would use it within their scores and soundtracks… *shrugs*. Especially as they – Ocean Star – themselves describe it: “…vision morphed into action.”
Tracklist:
Arrival
Three Dots On A
Map
How Small We Are
Killik –
Spaetzie (OSE Remix)
Woven Drops
Rain From Within
Nuno’s Abduction
Phrygian Drifter
All Good Things
Eyes in the dark
The intro “Arrival”
not a primary song yet still a visionary set up of what’s about to follow up,
presenting Ocean Star in character with alien vocal effects to pull us into these
musical stories. “Three Dots on the Map” “How Small We Are” and Woven Drops” are
all full-fledge Progressive Goa/Psy-trance are some of the best to define the
album’s tone, even with more to go.
“Rain From Within”
has the most unique/stand out sounds on the album, and “Phrygian Drifter” is
definitely a Shuffler-ready song for the dancers. “All Good Things” slows it
down, into downtempo Goa, good
addition that needed break for the mostly speedy BPMs making up most of the
album. “Eyes in the Dark” follow ups by dropping the
heavy beats and psychedelic rhythms all together, which was unexpected. Very deep,
sensorial Space-Age ambient throughout it all, something that goes right along
the lines of Gravity's
soundtrack. I think this song was great send-off for the album, just to
allow someone to imagine seeing, and being comfortable within, the “dark” of
space itself.
Check out their blog: http://oceanstarempire.blogspot.com/
And since I’m always
in promotion of good album art and those that create it, check out Artist Fernando
Hood's site.
Favorites/Recommends:
Three Dots On A
Map
How Small We Are
Rain From Within
Nuno’s Abduction
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