{"product_id":"sound-of-ceres-emerald-sea-cd","title":"Sound of Ceres - Emerald Sea [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: JNR397CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0602309894924\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 17 Jun 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecommended If You Like: Beach House, Les Baxter, Candy Claws, Marina Abramovic, Fine Art, Vintage Disney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMastered (loudly) by Kramer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmerald Sea, the third album from New York-based audiovisual project Sound of Ceres, tells the story of how the universe comes to know itself. 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. 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten in three acts, Emerald Sea follows two deities who trail each other through the furthest reaches of experience. There is the Universe, all that exists, voiced by performance artist Marina Abramovic. And there is Venus, transformer of matter and avatar of love, sung by the group's lead vocalist Karen Hover (who goes by k).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough 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. Connection and severance, joy and grief, wonder and bewilderment all tumble through its scope. In the widest frame, the universe begins, meets itself, and ends. In the closest frame, two people encounter each other, grow close, and then separate. These stories are two views of the same fractal. In every intimacy human beings cultivate, every rush of connection, no matter how fleeting, we reenact the universe for ourselves.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I envisioned myself journeying through these different realms -- space, the land, the sea, the heavens -- and following Marina's character,\" says k. \"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. They recorded Emerald Sea in collaboration\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith Jon Sonneberg at Ka-Boom studio in Ohio. It was mixed by Nicholas Principe and mastered by Kramer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRyan 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.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen you receive it, when its sounds in motion light up your mind's eye, it is created in collaboration with you.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracks:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. The Tower\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. 2nd Star Shroud\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Sunray Venus\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. The Glare\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Arm of Golden Flame\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Deeper Surround\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Enchanter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Handlion’s Palace\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. The Fawn\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. 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