BAKKPlafond4 | Ulla Straus / Oceanic (LP) by BAKK • published on 2019-09-17T15:14:53Z Plafond 4 — Ulla Straus / Oceanic [LP] Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item57897.html Digital: bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-4 A1 Ulla Straus — I Forgot to Take a Picture (12:03) A2 Ulla Straus — Becoming Warm (6:24) B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (19:21) ↳ 1. Aperture ↳ 2. Columella ↳ 3. Sea If You Can Hear The fourth Plafond sees fine-crafted contrasting pieces complement each other in courtesy of Ulla Straus and Oceanic. Along the wide arbitrary landscape of listening or 'ambient' music, it is a delight to have two artists, separated by the vast Atlantic, contributing quite opposite interpretations of such to the series. Perceptual time feels as a recurrent theme which binds them, albeit in a whole different modus operandi. In her iconic tactile productions, Straus excavates levels of advanced musical complexity in the seemingly most simple. Throughout two tracks her crude and beautiful technique riffles, compositions that remain prone to the transient, combining field recordings with morphing saxophone and guitar. This is deeply evocative music that turns its recipient into a mode of contemplation. ‘I Forgot to Take a Picture’ breathes melancholic romanticism, ‘Becoming Warm’ feels lorn yet hopeful. Pastoral haze over a rouge-tainted barren, the crackling insides of a wooden forest house. Picturesque and minimalist, Pennsylvania’s Straus manages to temporarily stop the sand from gravitating downwards. Oceanic antagonises Straus with the triptych ‘Three Sides of a Shell’, recalling different emotions adhering to the fourth dimension. As a performing artist, Oceanic masters the element of suspense. Here, over the course of nineteen minutes, a three-note sequence is explored within the producers imaginatory, chapterised, providing moments to navigate through his fictitious galaxy. Stuttering melodies across azure waters, synthesised bleeps as flickering stars over a moonlit mountain pass. Oceanic’s music feels advanced through actively incorporating contemporary futurism, whilst never losing the glacial glance that is so familiar to its early nineties foregoers. It is as if listening to ‘Three Sides...’ heightens the senses, towards possibility, innovation even, triggering illusions of time dilation, shattering the hourglass. Comes in hand printed dreamy, pink sleeve, including Obi-strip, by the BAKK Innerspace Ink Station. Music: @ullastraus / @oceanicocean Design: Mike Kokken and Heer Badoux Words: Luke Cohlen (@lukecohlen) Genre Soundtrack Comment by Frond this is gorgeous 2022-01-11T10:20:33Z Comment by COLIN JOHNCO such a masterpiece !!! i love it <3 2021-03-09T18:08:28Z Comment by Glass Can 🤍 2020-10-06T15:39:11Z Comment by Slowfoam so good 2020-01-26T12:35:00Z Comment by Slowfoam stunning 2020-01-26T12:28:58Z Comment by Keythong Sounded to me like an Orchestra tuning up before a heavy breakbeat session, like “Smack My Bitch Up” in memory for Keith Flint!! 2019-12-10T15:01:39Z Comment by Leibniz uff... this is really good! 2019-11-12T21:43:42Z Comment by Zoë Mc Pherson <3 2019-11-07T18:02:37Z Comment by The Slow Music Movement Exploring the joy of repetition & collaboration, Ulla Straus & Oceanic cast the Atlantic aside & combine forces to create lingering dreamy minimalism, the friendlier end of the avant-garde & quite frankly one of the most epic melodic tecnno tracks of the year for the intriguing Bakk label. 2019-10-30T09:03:31Z Comment by coywolf Gorgeous..... 2019-09-22T14:48:36Z Comment by ibizo ebb plafond4ever 2019-09-19T22:56:55Z Comment by P3T P33V3S Awesome 2019-09-19T06:38:37Z Comment by alo wuau 2019-09-18T16:56:06Z Comment by Luke Cohlen autumn's approaching 2019-09-18T14:21:10Z Comment by The Social Lover | BAKK : ^ @ 2019-09-18T12:25:54Z Comment by Kaap beautiful! 2019-09-18T11:47:18Z Comment by Vrle nice release...o/ 2019-09-18T11:26:05Z Comment by Nic Knows Best !!! 2019-09-18T10:56:49Z Comment by BAKK • A1 Ulla Straus — I Forgot to Take a Picture 2019-09-17T15:22:27Z Comment by BAKK • A2 Ulla Straus — Becoming Warm 2019-09-17T15:22:15Z Comment by BAKK • B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (1. Aperture) 2019-09-17T15:20:33Z Comment by BAKK • B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (2. Columella) 2019-09-17T15:20:17Z Comment by BAKK • B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (3. Sea If You Can Hear) 2019-09-17T15:18:55Z