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- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Contemporary
- Label: Sunnyside Records
Patiently paced, gentle and delicate
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We Say...
More tactile than 2002's Excavation, Oceana is a cavernous record punctuated by the stalactite-like arpeggios of Ben Monder, the gifted progressive jazz guitarist. The beautiful opening acoustic piece "Still Motion" is a marvelous demonstration of deceptively complex finger-picking (somewhere between classical guitar and the Deadwood theme song), and the 17-minute title track strongly recalls the jazz-fusion flourishes of Tortoise. The best track, however, is "Double Sun," a patiently paced guitar-based performance that swings and swivels, but always stays tethered to a tightly wound internal metronome.
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| 01. |  |
Still Motion |
7:19 |
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| 02. | |
Light |
1:00 |
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| 03. | |
Oceana |
16:55 |
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| 04. | |
Echolalia |
8:04 |
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| 05. | |
Double Sun |
11:59 |
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| 06. | |
Rooms Of Light |
16:39 |
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| 07. | |
Spectre |
8:30 |
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07 Total Tracks, 70:26 Total Length
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