Ancient M'ocean (2017), by Babe, Terror

Ancient M'ocean (2017)

by Babe, Terror

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Lost Tribe Sound Like leaving all your fancy analog gear and reel to reel by the oceanside for a few months, left to the elements of saltwater spray, and direct blistering sun. Coming back to it after that time and deciding I'm going to make that solid summer techno album. Yet nature's elements have already run their course, waves of ocean-lapping percussive noise, woozy sun-baked marching bands, and the groggy murmurs of half dead electrodes are all that remain. Vibes of Freescha, rhythmic-side of Huerco S...

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1.	Windsurf For Souls I 09:40	buy track
2.	Atlantic Verticode 01:39	buy track
3.	Mirakel Hoorn 04:57	buy track
4.	Allureon Intro 03:17	buy track
5.	Allureon Part 1 04:06	buy track
6.	Allureon Part 2 10:47	buy track
7.	Allureon Part 3 03:05	buy track
8.	South 04:12	buy track
9.	Lunairel 02:22	buy track
10.	Windsurf For Souls II 08:53	buy track
11.	Kosminen Flåte 01:44	buy track
12.	Fryffordd 04:16	buy track
13.	Windsurf For Souls III 09:51	buy track
14.	We'll Be Here 02:33	buy track
15.	Forever Home 08:11	buy track

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"A considerable length of time since his last release on Phantasy, the cultishly adored ‘Knights', Babe, Terror returns to the label with a unique audio-visual experiment, a timely ‘story that’s not actually a story’. Over the course of fifteen tracks, and the span of an absorbing comic, Babe, Terror and Phantasy invite you to plunge into ‘Ancient M’Ocean’.

Originally releasing twisted pop music cultivated only using the sounds of his home city of San Paolo alongside his own ingenious methods, and garnering fans including experimental luminaries Arto Lindsay and Four Tet, ‘Ancient M’Ocean’ finds the restlessly experimental Brazilian artist in his richest and most expansive form yet, having been absorbed in the production process for four years. And while the full length LP marks the most in-depth exploration of his sound to date, his mysterious process remains as unpredictable and compelling as ever. Typically awash in feedback, with gentle melodies speculating beneath the surface, gradually crystalising as his music unfolds, the compositions of Babe, Terror rewards patience and curiosity with a profound sense of psychedelic melancholy, inviting listeners into an intimate atmosphere that’s all of it’s own.

For the first time, the vision of Babe, Terror is unbridled by sound alone. A twenty page comic concerning an understated sci-fi romance taking place in a world adjacent and just out of reach of our own, collects stories of ancient customs and traditions, submerged but sharing the same sun, moon and energy. Also entitled ‘Ancient M’Ocean’, this unique accompaniment is conceptualised by Babe, Terror himself, and beautifully realised in tender illustrated from by Michael Crook, chronicling just a small part of “a community of souls… an incorruptible interconnection that binds us together as a whole.”

Throughout the record, ‘Allureon’ unfolds over four parts, each adding a layer of submerged noise to conjure a muted sense of ceremony. ‘Fryffordd’ meanwhile, is a heart wrenching piano ballad delivered from the fifth dimension, while ‘Windsurf For Souls’ is threaded across the album, anchoring the listener. Finally on ‘We’ll Be Here’, alien voices offer gentle reassurance before a trip back to more familiar turf with ‘Forever Home’, the reflective, triumphant conclusion to a sometimes challenging but ultimately rewarding journey.

With both the musical and comic forms of ‘Ancient M’Ocean’ available individually, Babe, Terror has painted a truly all encompassing landscape. Come prepared for a trip unlike any other, and always a warm welcome back to a world that you had never heard of."

(Phantasy Sound)

Babe, Terror, 2024:
"Ancient M'ocean allowed me to navigate dangerous terrain. As the album is one with wide navigation, I went. I think that it, this album, in itself is a dangerous terrain, an alien mud, and a catwalk of old samba and carnival, passing with its possessed dancers at dawn in the Bom Retiro neighborhood, the neighborhood of the first generation of Jews in São Paulo. As I knew I was going beyond the limits and going more and more into the undersoil of sound and composition, I think I took something that was in the air from another "underground" (conspiracyism) and did the experiment of trying to make it cool. The backdrop of the comic book that was sold with the CD is a kind of "Planet Earth as an unfinished painting". It's almost like "flat earth". And it's science fiction. I think with Ancient M'ocean I glimpsed the idea of science fiction and fantasy as a very subterranean melodic space, the "center of the earth" of melodies. Sometimes bad scientific ideas give good ground for trips."

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released January 27, 2017

all tracks composed & produced by Claudio Katz Szynkier

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Music project born in 2008. Has made "Teghnojoyg". 4th global album of the year ("Horizogon") according to The Guardian in 2020. Best electronic albums of the year ("Fadechase Marathon") in 2018 according to Bandcamp.

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