In 1925, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the indescribable jungles of Brazil during an expedition to find the lost city of Z. The city not only represented a sort of El Dorado, but also a state of consciousness in which the traveler and the jungle became a single being. Fawcett describes this ideal moment as the appearance of an inverted oasis; a deserted space in-between lush vegetation where one cannot longer distinguish one plant from the other, water from land or bugs from birds. All of them form a unified harmonic tissue of organic matter.
Strange Oasis by Million Brazilians is in sound what Fawcett dreamed to find. Loaded with layers of tribal percussion, far-out atmospheres and exotic melodies, this record achieves to gather lush and mystery in a tangible fabric of sound. Flutes pass as birds, taps as humid drops, melodies as organic currents. A ritual happening far away and within simultaneously. As the music crowds round us, the sounds take on animal and vegetal flesh to form a strange oasis in the exact middle of the inner jungle.
Words by José Badía
se lanzó el 28 de octubre de 2019
MILLION BRAZILIANS:
STONE: alto & bamboo saxophone, kalimba, bass, autoharp, swords, bells, voice
CORUM: synthesizer, percussion, voice, tarka, shehnai, conch, field recordings
SHAVER: drums, percussion
Recorded live in 2015 by MB above Kingdom Waterfall in Montville, Maine and further treated at the Ro-He-Ge in Belfast, Maine
Mixed & produced by Grant Corum at Psychic Sounds Studios, 2018
Mastering by Caleb Mulkerin, 2019
Microscans by Siet Raeymaekers
Layout by Grant Corum & Nicolas Carcavilla
In 1925, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the indescribable jungles of Brazil during an expedition to find the lost city of Z. The city not only represented a sort of El Dorado, but also a state of consciousness in which the traveler and the jungle became a single being. Fawcett describes this ideal moment as the appearance of an inverted oasis; a deserted space in-between lush vegetation where one cannot longer distinguish one plant from the other, water from land or bugs from birds. All of them form a unified harmonic tissue of organic matter.
Strange Oasis by Million Brazilians is in sound what Fawcett dreamed to find. Loaded with layers of tribal percussion, far-out atmospheres and exotic melodies, this record achieves to gather lush and mystery in a tangible fabric of sound. Flutes pass as birds, taps as humid drops, melodies as organic currents. A ritual happening far away and within simultaneously. As the music crowds round us, the sounds take on animal and vegetal flesh to form a strange oasis in the exact middle of the inner jungle.
Words by José Badía
se lanzó el 28 de octubre de 2019
MILLION BRAZILIANS:
STONE: alto & bamboo saxophone, kalimba, bass, autoharp, swords, bells, voice
CORUM: synthesizer, percussion, voice, tarka, shehnai, conch, field recordings
SHAVER: drums, percussion
Recorded live in 2015 by MB above Kingdom Waterfall in Montville, Maine and further treated at the Ro-He-Ge in Belfast, Maine
Mixed & produced by Grant Corum at Psychic Sounds Studios, 2018
Mastering by Caleb Mulkerin, 2019
Microscans by Siet Raeymaekers
Layout by Grant Corum & Nicolas Carcavilla
