Revamped German post-metal collective The Ocean are newly streaming their collaboration with pioneering German electronic outfit Tangerine Dream. This song is titled “Milk Of My Dreams” and appears on The Ocean‘s forthcoming new album “Solaris“. That album drew inspiration from the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky sci-fi epic film of the same name.
The Ocean had the following to say about this track, and getting to work with Tangerine Dream‘s Thorsten Quaeschning on it:
“Working with Thorsten has been an incredibly inspiring experience and with all of us being huge Tangerine Dream fans, a great honour of course. His knowledge of electronic music, synthesizers and sound design is extraordinary, and at the same time he’s an immensely talented and curious musician. His studio feels like a synthesizer museum — everything is connected, switched on and ready to play. What’s particularly remarkable is his ability to take a sound you can only describe in words and translate it almost instantly into something you can actually hear.”
Quaeschning stated:
“It was a real pleasure to work on the new album by The Ocean Collective. At the same time, it was an interesting challenge for me, because I had to adjust some of my usual working methods and leave the safe harbor of familiar procedures. From my own musical microcosm, The Ocean Collective’s music moves through a wide range of shifting time signatures, which meant that most hardware step sequencers no longer worked in the conventional way.
Of course, I could have programmed and recorded individual sections of two, three or sometimes eight bars, but I decided to play many of the sequences by hand. This made it possible to react more quickly to the time signature changes, while also giving the sequences a more organic feel through dynamics, touch and subtle timing differences. I’m very happy to be part of this album and I’m looking forward to seeing where this new collaboration may lead.”
“Solaris” is scheduled to arrive on September 25th via Pelagic Records and signifies a new era for The Ocean. The group parted ways with several key members and welcomed in vocalists Enrico Tiberi (ex-EyeHate, etc.) and Lane Shi (Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Otay:onii), and guitarists Emmanuel Jessua (Hypno5e) and Marco Gennaro for this new effort.
