{"id":9835,"date":"2021-06-03T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9835"},"modified":"2024-12-13T03:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:57:18","slug":"pro00322","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00322\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Fang: The Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean (2CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album= 4163253342\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless>  <a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-sleepwalker-s-ocean\">The Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean by Forrest Fang<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n<strong>Disc 1<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Gone To Ground<br \/>\n2 Message In The Sand<br \/>\n3 &#8211; 8 The Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;i. Cloudburst<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ii. Bog<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;iii. Night Ferry<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;iv. Geiger<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;v. Lumin<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;vi. Waywards<br \/>\n9 Driftwood<br \/>\n10 Not Forgotten<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disc 2  <\/strong><br \/>\n1 An Alternate Ocean (The Salton Sea)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Limited second edition of 300<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8220;Fang distinguishes himself from his contemporaries&#8230; with a rich instrumental presentation and by integrating into his work elements associated with gamelan music and other Eastern musical forms.&#8221; &#8211; <A HREF=http:\/\/www.textura.org\/reviews\/fang_sleepwalkersocean.htm>textura<\/A><\/h3>\n<p><BR>Forrest Fang &#8211; synthesizer, keyboards, violin, Marxolin, electric guitar, electric mandolin, saron, lavta, c\u00e0ntaro, treatments, Virtual ANS<br \/>\nRobert Rich &#8211; flutes on \u201cMessage In The Sand\u201d <\/p>\n<p><BR>Forrest Fang\u2019s 2015 <strong>The Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean<\/strong> was his first 2CD studio album. It\u2019s a hypnotic deep-ambient exploration of the fantastical and elusive realm of the subconscious. Fang gave free reign to his intuitive and instinctual side allowing the sonic landscape to drift into his interior world of elusive and impressionistic thoughts and images. <\/p>\n<p><BR>&#8220;To me,\u201d Fang says, &#8220;the ocean is not only a symbol of emptiness and space, but also one of unknown depth and mystery.  It is much like a dream that seems so real and vast yet is formless because it originates in the mind.  For this release, I took a more open-ended approach, allowing in more spontaneous sonic \u2018accidents\u2019 and textures, especially on my first long-form piece, &#8216;An Alternate Ocean (The Salton Sea).&#8217;  The layered soundscape of my &#8216;ocean,&#8217; populated with these accidental characters, ebbs and flows in a vast imaginary sonambulent space.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><BR>While Fang embraces the American minimalists and the ambient soundscapes of his contemporaries, he also draws on the gentle percussive textures of Javanese gamelan and on pentatonic scales used in traditional Asian music. Besides using violin, electric mandolin, electric guitar, keyboards and various textural treatments to create complex layers of sound, Fang also plays lesser-known instruments such as Marxolin, saron (Javanese gamelan), and lavta (Turkish lute). Robert Rich contributes his otherworldly flutes to &#8220;Message In The Sand\u201d and mastered the release.<\/p>\n<p><BR>The album opens with \u201cGone To Ground,\u201d a spacey, multi-layered electronic track that combines tape-delayed violins and lavta with an unfurling ostinato of interlocking synthesizer parts.  The second track, \u201cMessage In The Sand,\u201d emerges from a relaxed ambient bed of sustained keyboards and electric guitar to form a cross-cultural rhythmic gumbo of saron (Javanese gamelan), bamboo flutes and c\u00e1ntaro (Mexican clay pot). Next is the album\u2019s centerpiece, \u201cThe Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean,\u201d a six-part ambient suite which travels from primal intensity to radiant placidity&#8212;moving through rain clouds, a thickened bog, a nocturnal ferry and a luminescent band of light.  In this universe, a gamelan shares space with the familiar sounds of a mellotron, and a virtual Geiger counter shares space with an angelic organ.  The first disc concludes with the contemplative and bell-like soundscapes of \u201cDriftwood\u201d and \u201cNot Forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>The album continues on the second disc with a single long-form electronic track, \u201cAn Alternate Ocean (The Salton Sea).\u201d This 54-minute piece offers an alternative view of the imaginary ocean suggested in the title track.  The \u201cocean\u201d is more sustained and celestial than its cousin with an inward focus and a hint of Asian influence that brings the album to a state of quiet repose.  For Fang, this extended piece &#8220;gave me the chance to realize my virtual world on a larger and more organic scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR>Artwork by Kinga Britschgi, <a HREF=kingabrit.wix.com\/kinga TARGET=BLANK>kingabrit.wix.com\/kinga<\/A><\/p>\n<h3>First edition: January 22 2016, limited edition of 300<br \/>\nSecond Edition: June 4 2021, limited edition of 300<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p> <div class=\"socials\"><h2>love it, share it<\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00322%2F&t=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Sleepwalker%E2%80%99s+Ocean+%282CD%29\" class=\"socials-small facebook-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" >facebook<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00322%2F&text=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Sleepwalker%E2%80%99s+Ocean+%282CD%29\" class=\"socials-small twitter-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" >twitter<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00322%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00322.jpg&description=+++%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A+\" class=\"socials-small pinterest-small\"  onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" >pinterest<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00322%2F&title=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Sleepwalker%E2%80%99s+Ocean+%282CD%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-sleepwalker-s-ocean\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/spottedpeccary.com\/shop\/the-sleepwalkers-ocean\/\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-24k.png ><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,49,570,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9835","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-electronic","product_cat-forrest-fang","product_cat-world-influenced","pa_artist-forrest-fang","pa_format-2-cd-ecowallet","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-544","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}