Oceanic, by Jeff Greinke

Oceanic

by Jeff Greinke

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igesch a surprise, a new Jeff Greinke!
i was always hoping that one day he would return to his early ethnic style after his definitive move towards modern ambient chamber music..
but this 'new direction' really hits the spot for me. beautiful introspective harmonics and textures. very difficult to pick a favorite track here.
'Lost Terrain' was personally an important release to me and this one will be that most likely too..
i hope his future work will bring more like this..

Dave Aftandilian An interesting evolution for JG. To me it seems like a deeper exploration of themes that have haunted his work throughout his career. Rather than evoking how weather make us feel, _Oceanic_ instead delves into what it would feel like to *be* the weather that powers deep currents of the ocean, or lifts air weightless and shining over the top of a mountain. Everything looks different from this perspective: hazy and wavering, blurred and indistinct, yet filled with infinite creative possibility.

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1.	Oceanic 05:50	buy track
2.	Mountains to Clouds 04:42	buy track
3.	Cirrus Currents 05:26	buy track
4.	Cyclogenesis 06:09	buy track
5.	Temple of Dripping Bells 05:10	buy track
6.	Place of Discovery 04:49	buy track
7.	Late Rain at the Station 05:48	buy track
8.	Pressure Gradient 04:27	buy track
9.	Northern Reaches 09:26	buy track

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OCEANIC is undulating ambient minimalism floating upon dreamy and somewhat hazy eddies in a slow-moving stream of wonder. Jeff Greinke’s second album upon his return to Projekt — and 24th overall in a 40-year career — marks a departure from last year's post-classical A THOUSAND YEAR FLOOD. Here, the electronic sounds are processed and often stacked to create complex textures, chords and harmonies. The timbres are distinct, formed with subtle detail, capturing the ebb and flow of emotional whirlpools surging like briny ocean turbulence within one’s heart.

"These nine compositions,” Jeff reflects, "involve abundant sonic motion with multiple layers moving from side to side, front to back, and at varying speeds and dimensions. This motion conjures large bodies of water with their long rolling waves, strong currents and cross-currents, and big slow moving tides. Hence, the album title OCEANIC. That said, there’s also a prominent atmospheric aspect to this work — a common thread for me over the years — lending a mysterious and suspended quality to many of these pieces. In this way I think of more than just large bodies of water; the scenery also includes misty mountains, big clouds, steady rain, the jet stream, and far-off frozen places with massive drifting icebergs."

"This music comes from a period of intense exploration intended to expand my musical palette through an empirical process of heavily manipulating, treating and then layering sounds. In this way, Oceanic is perhaps my most ‘experimental’ release; not in terms of genre, but in how I used the studio to push my compositions into new sonic realms. The pieces are entirely sample- and synth-based, less minimal, and don’t involve other players. The timbres are not as clear or clean; they’re more smeared and altered. This nine-month period of deeply focused creativity was an immensely exciting and fertile time of discovery for me.”

As a seasoned artist, Jeff pushed against familiar and comfortable studio work patterns by harnessing a wild abandoned approach to sculpting OCEANIC. The end result is an album of music designed to draw the listener into a richly harmonic and deeply textured, somewhat strange and often beautiful, world of exploratory sound.

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released February 2, 2024

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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres. 40-year-old Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its select roster of artists. ... more

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