Oceans4 – Daydreaming (Single Review)

Today’s review features Oceans4’s new single “Daydreaming.” Oceans4  was created in 2010 and is the brainchild of Andrew Crook. Oceans4 has released several albums, including Dark Horse (2013), Emergence (2014), Acta Non Verba (2022), Inertia (2023) and Postmodern earlier this year.

This “song” is 31 minutes, 38 seconds long – intended to be heard as a full meditative album. Timed to match your 30-minute yoga session.

So let’s have a listen …

I really enjoyed this work of meditative art. The first 7 minutes are all over a C bass drone with melody instruments entering and quickly disappearing for the next melody instrument to enter, all over the C Drone.  The riff then switches to a single-note dancing bass riff, which resolves to the tone of A. Again, I love the choices of interesting melody instruments over the droning bass riff. At about 10 minutes, a piano joins the fun and takes over the melody lines, then a harpsichord enters the fray. With the ring of a triangle, a new D drone riff enters the room, bouncing between D and F, then an interesting electronic melody appears.

And a new drone develops, bouncing between D and A. Then the electronic keyboard enters the fray again. At about the 18-minute mark, the C drone returns and again dominates the soundscape. I love the use an interesting percussion and melody instruments to spice up the track. At the 25-minute mark, the D drone returns with an electronic keyboard and bells riff that will wake you out of your slumber! Then a minute or so later, the D to A drone reappears, followed quickly by the electronic keyboard returns dancing over a D drone.

It’s like we are revisiting all of the earlier pieces of the work with highlights of each as we near the end of the track. Finally, the C drone enters again with melody instruments – a keyboard riffing, strings, bass, interesting ring modulator sounds, which remind me of The Flaming Lips’ Christmas on Mars album. 

As you might suspect, the melodies are all fairly slow to fit the mood of this contemplative masterpiece, until the very end, when they speed things up a bit to wake you out of your meditative state. It’s quite perfect for that.

SCORE/Outstanding: If you’re into meditation or in a meditation group, you can definitely get your “Ohm” on to this masterful piece of music. Very well played, sir, very well played. Much love, Beth

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