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about
With Ocean Jon Hood offer their listeners a hauntingly beautiful sign of their sonic and visual existence after the release of their acclaimed debut album Body Semantics in 2017. Like the band itself the composition of Ocean went through diverse states of moods and shapes in the past years, with this current variation feeling like a very vivid and carefully narrated entity.
The composition follows repetitive instrumental loops that are constantly expanding, making the song grow like a gorgeous mushroom. When the warmly spoken lyrics of vocalist Joan Seiler evolve into hymn-like singing one can feel sparks of gentle excitement, the atmosphere turning from a calm melancholy into a somewhat hopeful euphoria – a dynamic that many Jon Hood songs carry. The backing echoes by Sonya Carmona, a Costa Rican musician, underline this emotional picture.
I can hear the ocean in your name, the beginning line of the song is a gentle reminder that although the world feels mechanical and alienated at times, there is still room for fantasy and synesthetic experiences.
This idea is also mirrored in the music video by Eliane Bertschi, where performer Lara Dâmaso moves between a green screen studio and diverse animated fantasy worlds created by Joerg Hurschler. With the power of imagination a virtual reality can become the inner safe space and vice versa. So called glitches in the patriarchally structured world can become superpowers within the virtual.
Carefully written by Dominika Jarotta, she contributes a lot to the music program at Dampfzentrale, Saint Ghetto festival in Bern and the B-sides festival in Lucerne.
lyrics
OCEAN
I can hear the ocean in your name
Clearly in my mind
I can feel the sea
The salt on my lips
The breeze in my hair
I pine for my dreams
Wounded but open hearted
Hmm… yes
Oouu.. yes
This true love will sing an anthem of hearts
And the wind bears this fair and beautiful melody with
And brings it to us
And the storms it causes -
are just hear to wash us clean to make us stronger
hmm.. yes
Oouu.. yes
Chorus
Warm water flows through you
It might heal your wounds and create(s) new patterns
Waves crushing over you
Might renew your view and create new patterns
I leap into the dark great ocean
Go you up to the mountain and come when you’re prepared
Maybe in spring, next summer may this needs more over coming, but next winter
Yes
uuuhh.. Yes
Maybe tomorrow or in a week two
Suddenly it grabs you a puls and you take heart and you jump And you surprise me and you pull me with you into the dark sea Or maybe never
Maybe at no time
Maybe never
Say yes
I say yes
Chorus x2
Warm water flows through you
It might heal your wounds and create(s) new patterns
Waves crushing over you
Might renew your view and create new patterns
Maybe you come to look at me occasionally while I am swimming Maybe I’ll get tired sometimes but I shall not be cross with you
credits
released February 3, 2023
Recorded and produced by Martin Schenker at Viscosounds
Mixed by David Langhard at Dala Studio
Mastered by Rob Viso
Artwork by Joerg Hurschler (video still from the Ocean music video directed by Eliane Bertschi)
Additional credits: Voc: Joan Seiler, Add Vocals: Sonya Carmona, Mario Hänni, Martin Schenker
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