Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

by Boxhead Ensemble

Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks Its Back cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Atavistic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:10:00
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Joe Ferguson, Douglas McCombs, Michael Krassner, Ken Vandermark, Charles Kim, Jim O'Rourke, Rick Rizzo, Will Oldham, David Grubbs, Braden King

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This melancholic post-rock soundtrack for a documentary film thrives on calm, introspective free improvisation. Blending avant-folk instrumentation with field recordings and spoken word, the ensemble crafts a highly repetitive, conceptual atmosphere full of longing.

Genres

Descriptors: Acoustic, Avant Garde, Soundtrack, improvisation, repetitive, conceptual, sampling, experimental, instrumental, improvised, acoustic, atmospheric, ambient, strings, chamber

Tracklist

  1. Introduction (5:01)
  2. Unalaska Island (1:16)
  3. For The Glory Of The Wind And The Water (4:03)
  4. Ship Supply (9:44)
  5. Telegraph Hill (4:12)
  6. The Ravens (8:08)
  7. Mother Gromoff (1:19)
  8. Captain's Bay Road (4:33)
  9. At Sea (13:06)
  10. The Valley (Parts 1 - 3) (10:19)
  11. Ebb's Folly (4:53)
  12. In Closing (3:20)

Credits

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