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:
The Case of the Great Irish Elk
Swan Song for the Humpback Angler
Our Gentle Life Together
The Sound of Lies
Secrets of the Fall
Moonlight/Twilight
Harmless Lover’s Discourse
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