Ocean Songs

by Dirty Three

Ocean Songs cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 March 1998
  • Label: Touch and Go
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 1:06:55
  • Community rating: 4.25/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: David Grubbs

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded by Steve Albini, 'Ocean Songs' is a breathtakingly stark, deeply melancholic pinnacle of instrumental post-rock. The trio utilizes Warren Ellis's weeping violin alongside lethargic, jazz-inflected drumming to create an incredibly soothing, atmospheric, and aquatic soundscape.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, aquatic, atmospheric, strings, crescendo

Tracklist

  1. Sirena (4:05)
  2. The Restless Waves (5:09)
  3. Distant Shore (5:51)
  4. Authentic Celestial Music (10:04)
  5. Backwards Voyager (4:34)
  6. Last Horse On The Sand (4:51)
  7. Sea Above, Sky Below (6:04)
  8. Black Tide (4:35)
  9. Deep Waters (16:27)
  10. Ends of the Earth (5:11)

Credits

  • Dirty Three - primary artist, producer [produced by]
  • Jim White - composed by [all compositions by], drums, percussion
  • Mick Turner - composed by [all compositions by], guitar, melodica, loops, painting, cover, design [paintings and cover design by]
  • Warren Ellis - composed by [all compositions by], piano, violin, viola
  • Steve Albini - engineer, producer [produced by], producer
  • David Grubbs - harmonica, piano
  • Bilderberg - photography by [dirty three photo by]
  • Thomas Rabsch - photography by [dirty three photo by]

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