Odawas

The Blue Depths

I was living in Chicago when singer-songwriter Justin Vollmar emailed suggesting that I check out the Luc Besson film The Big Blue and pay particular attention to its score by Éric Serra. He thought perhaps I had reached similar conclusions as to what music should sound like. He was right and I was profoundly changed. I bought a nylon string guitar and detuned it two whole steps and began to fall in love with the ambient and the saccharine. Songs were written to the internal rhythm tracks on a cheap Yamaha keyboard that conveniently had a “movie soundtrack” setting. Most mixing and overdubbing was completed in Isaac Edwards’ Rogers Park SRO. By the time the album was released, we had moved to Berkeley, California.
Tracklist:

1. The Case of the Great Irish Elk

2. Swan Song for the Humpback Angler

3. Our Gentle Life Together

4. The Sound of Lies

5. Secrets of the Fall

6. Moonlight/Twilight

7. Harmless Lover’s Discourse

8. Boy in the Yard

Contributors: Isaac Edwards, F. Bradley Cash, Marc Bonadies, Doug Van Sloun, Daniel Murphy, Helen Maurene Cooper

2009, Jagjaguwar

Formats: LP / CD / Digital

Available to stream on: Bandcamp; Spotify; and YouTube