Overseas III

Overseas III—A Gem of Creative Exploration

     

After listening to Overseas III, my only response is to hit: repeat.

This album is a journey that loops from tune to tune and back again. From the first chord to the last, I am way up North on the high seas--alternately lost, found, commanding, and/or directed.

Highlights for me:

Track 1, “Neil,” provides a structured and steady beginning. This rhythmic-thick honey balm song of the sea seeds the gathering clouds of the inner me, and I am born a soul cake, melting and jelling under glimmer keys of crystal sight.

On Track 2, “Everseas,” I find myself folded into the dark of a latticed reed basket, floating along with what feels like a river, wondering....am I in a cradle? Or casket? Forced to hear through the eyes of my feet, I am bound by bass and bow; my breath billows…..

Track #5, “Breath of Bark”:
This tune is all about that BIG FEEL because My boat is it’s own bright SUN! All the Vikings are in a happy mood on this song, all the way to the squonking crash at the end.

With Track #6, “Whiff of Wood,” I am at once lulled and repelled as I congeal with the blue of the air. I tear and schist into the crystal shadowing lair of ethereal notes creeping slowly through a gong wash of ice falls. Am I sailing into or away from the avalanche?

Thankfully, by the time I get into the last track, Nehallenia has oared my boat to safety.

Overseas III has become a part of me, and I predict the same for you.
Warning: addictive!

--Monique Avakian