Charlie Moonbeam
I've been in love with Lieven's work for years. I live on a volcanic island, the type of environment that has inspired his truly singular musical universe. This music is medicine and truly captures the unique serenity of the natural serenity of tropical island life.
Favorite track: Ho'okena encounter.
A flashback to july 2010, when I created this afterimage in the timespan of more or less one week. An afterimage of paying a visit to Joan Ocean’s hotspot, the Kealakekua Bay, and to islands of Hawai’i and Oahu. Miss Ocean wrote a few books about her communing and having conversations with dolphins at Kealakekua, thus i took upon this trip to investigate this conceptual world building idea.
'Canto Arquipélago'
Recorded under a volcano on a portable fourtrack and computer during a few days in november 2011. In our then temporary island home on Pico island between the avocado trees, the bush and the cliffs. Storms, humidity, ocean, warmth, sunrays, lava, bush, green, blue, ourselves, fishermen, villages, village cafés, cetaceans, livestock smells, ...
Canto was meant as an historical correction - or lesser pedantic, an addendum for the many idyllic insular albums out there. It was also the closing full album of the Dolphins Into The Future era
The music on this cassette is presented in its original audio quality. Although perfectly mastered, it suffers from lo-fi sound quality and is basically monophonic. I decided to keep it this way and to see the songs as historical remnants. Fully realizing a 10 year timespan isn’t even that historical… On two occasions I couldn’t resist and changed small parts to make the music conceptually just. Rest assured I did leave many flaws and little mistakes untouched; since the beauty of a truth is shining through its flaws.
credits
released June 10, 2020
Ke Ala Ke Kua, originally released by Kraak records, BE - 2010.
Canto Arquipélago, originally released by Underwater Peoples, USA - 2012.
supported by 58 fans who also own “Insular monographs”
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Heartfelt melodies and evocative lyrics create an emotional journey that leaves a lasting impression—moody and wonderfully dark. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 20, 2023