Ocean in a Bottle - vocalising the Solar System

 

As talked about yesterday, Off Records released two of my Ocean in a Bottle albums on the same day, the second vocalising the Solar System has being described as "Starting off as a one off companion to 'Reimaging the Solar System', 'Vocalising the Solar System' is not as much as a companion album but rather a completely different journey altogether.

Created over the first half of 2020, 'Vocalising the Solar System' is an album where Andy N (aka Ocean in a Bottle) with a number of guest fellow poets / writers all using spoken word over Ocean in a Bottle’s ambient / drone space like dreams to create something completely different.

'Vocalising the Solar System' is an album that reimaging space with words and sound to bring a different experience to the silence in space and everything in-between.

Created with a number of other writers, their details are below:

Andy N :

onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com (His Writing blog)

oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com (Ocean in a Bottle – bandcamp)

www.facebook.com/Ocean-in-a-bottle-802773986422467/ (Ocean in a Bottle facebook)

Amanda Steel :

amandasteelwriter.wordpress.com

Chris Bainbridge :

www.facebook.com/ChrisBpoetry

Ian Whiteley :

thecrowsofalbion.bandcamp.com

www.thecrowsofalbion.com

www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/ianwhiteley

soundcloud.com/the-man-at-the-back-1

Sue Proffitt :

thebelatedwriter.wordpress.com

Reggie Agulha :

www.facebook.com/regi.agulha

Melissa Walters :

www.facebook.com/Melissa-Walters-Poetry-101970065079918/

www.instagram.com/melissawalterspoetry/

David Bond :

twitter.com/D_jamesbond

www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dbond34

www.wattpad.com/user/DavidJBond

The album can be bought / streamed from:

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/vocalising-the-solar-system (Bandcamp)

https://www.kkbox.com/my/en/album/BJGEdfY8e1Ua10F4MdxS009H-index.html (KK Box)

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/vocalising-the-solar-system/1510045304 (Apple /Itunes)

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/144238852 (Deezer)

https://www.qobuz.com/be-fr/interpreter/ocean-in-a-bottle/download-streaming-albums (Qobuz)

https://open.spotify.com/album/17wK0BPJoYVQ834wvRgNW7 (Spotify)

https://www.junodownload.com/products/ocean-in-a-vocalising-the-solar-system/4550205-02/ (Juno)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1a2EwyZZ6g&list=OLAK5uy_m43TV60Ymy7pYVBIjUu0I7zwF_3oWA--I&index=1 (Youtube)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B086M75MTN/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp?fbclid=IwAR1AshSzVwVPP989YMQ8pECAlMbCua5OCCFsNI0BBn2JaxAFSCn6MN3gM-s (Amazon)

Ocean in a Bottle - Reimaging the Solar System (New Release)

Double good news for you today as I have had two albums released as Ocean in a Bottle released on Off Records. I'll share details about the second later, but the first is called Reimaging the Solar System.

The album is described as "Hushing out across space to the worlds in our Solar System, Reimaging the Solar System is the latest album from Andy N’s ambient / drone project Ocean in a Bottle with each planet examined in waves of sound, drone and ambient into a glistening mass of synthetic chords and haunting atmosphere.

Reimaging the Solar System is a journey across 8 different planets from just outside the Sun to wild storms on Venus and into a frozen darkness on Neptune, each track mixing emotions with a dream like quality giving each planet it’s own individual life.

Reimaging the Solar System is filled with deep vibrations and restless shimmers in its eight tracks designed to take its listener on a epic journey whether backwards or forwards, inside or out  or into a deep spiritual exaltation.

Available from: 

https://player.believe.fr/v2/3616404803320?fbclid=IwAR02W9qqwriQRXR-hFo69RAczfs-CjcSsHqwHEkHF7Ivw99PQfXVu3JvTRQ

(Believe)

https://www.qobuz.com/be-fr/album/reimaging-the-solar-system-ocean-in-a-bottle/vgpt2jjvct0ca?fbclid=IwAR0vjJ8AEhQKGDKhe4qTLnGsTgGUDpFxch5FIxAdluksbjRBFA-W_F1jzuY

(Qobuz)

https://www.7digital.com/artist/ocean-in-a-bottle/release/reimaging-the-solar-system-11486578?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2&fbclid=IwAR1JddoU_HJuimyRbvceWnVKKXQQganN_MnQvazlhC7MMd3GloXXY9FGaHs

(7digital)

https://open.spotify.com/album/2FOFGwBvTn9UcTCCoQSEQh?fbclid=IwAR058SpHxFObhWIzSQJB7au3ek-4-U-D3oVcl5hG5iEQ3kiBqUtvysyKwUI

(Spotify)

https://listen.tidal.com/album/135976055?fbclid=IwAR1JddoU_HJuimyRbvceWnVKKXQQganN_MnQvazlhC7MMd3GloXXY9FGaHs

(Tidal)

https://www.junodownload.com/products/ocean-in-a-reimaging-the-solar-system/4511974-02/?fbclid=IwAR1JddoU_HJuimyRbvceWnVKKXQQganN_MnQvazlhC7MMd3GloXXY9FGaHs

(Juno)

https://www.kkbox.com/tw/en/album/fVbysXvXdEOlZ0F4HrOJ009H-index.html?fbclid=IwAR0uRwHW4B6Vsg4Q0GL6n6Y9CZQB8RGAIYDoN9gbFKI0pi-M7cvwhMsj1rk

(KKbox)

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/139219392?fbclid=IwAR0dFTZPdY27s00p6ZtCm7vUPYj4fbp4_m5Y5ejvnfKlrqWRKGS0_TAlK_U

(Deezer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQodKt98ok8&list=OLAK5uy_kJTI9tj3UI4piMWLMeVJxI4rWpyPljzQM&fbclid=IwAR3ybuVmZtlzueoj40ZZCDouLQQKFLApGGRK5ZuF-rZXFnD3lKXl5K5WJv4

(Youtube)

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/reimaging-the-solar-system

(Bandcamp)

From Inner Room to Outer Space (New Ambient, Drone, Experimental Mix series)

 

From Inner Room to Outer Space is a regular new Mix / Podcast release from Andy N from Ocean in a Bottle.

Composing of all kinds of ambient, drone, experimental and field recordings, each mix will take the listener on a different journey from outer space in-between planets to forgotten oceans and forgotten corners of cities with layers of sounds and songs (some known and some forgotten) helping the listener build up a new channel of memories on each one.

Mix 1 contains tracks by Ocean in a Bottle, Jason Luxton (Overlook), Kevin Richard Martin (Kevin the Bug Martin, Techno Animal, God etc), the A.M Experiment with a re-imaginging of Talk Talk, Olga Wojciechowska, Jane Seasy, Kareen Lotfy, Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze, Dead Voices on Air (Zoviet France related), Kōhachiro Miyata and Foehn.  

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pQajydV28&t=1433s

Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/andynwriter/from-inner-room-to-outer-space-episode-01/

Mix 2 contains tracks by Ocean in a Bottle , Simon Scott, Melissa Pons, Jana Winderen Claire M Singer , Chris Watson, Ipek Gorgun , Bethan Kellough, Nicola Di Croce, Alexandra Spence.

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORrBQmTq-J4&t=1s

Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/andynwriter/from-inner-room-to-outer-space-episode-2-october-2020/

More mixes will follow over the next few weeks at:

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pQajydV28&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj3uPudm83a-CQdsyywixq5A

Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/andynwriter/

Sonnets for Shakespeare reading

Not one for bigging myself up as I would much rather my words do that for themselves which I like to think they do, but the enclosed poem below has appeared as parts for the Sonnets for Shakespeare and I got invited to read it at the launch tonight.

I'll share the poem in a second but some of the comments I got were:

What really pleased me was the feedback I got afterwards which included the following praise:

There is such an anger in this work x

Sam Egelstaff

Outstanding!

Rebecca Salomonsson 

Very well performed, Andy

John F Keane 

A beautiful Volta/change of tone in the end x

Sam Egelstaff 

Very strong stuff Andy -and yes - vivid

Jenny Robb 

Nice one Andy

Ian Henery 

Well done - it was great.  Loved the simmering emotion in it!

Charlotte Kearns

The poem can be read here https://www.sonnetsforshakespeare.co.uk/the-anthology/thesoundofsilence

Underground Part 10 to 18

 

(X)

Maybe see you later?

Her question calls out to him

Tepid in her guilt. 

(XI)

Complicated these are

The guard answers you smiling

Opening the gate.

(XII)

Re reading your texts

You fail to see the crowd at

The back building.

(XIII)

Lost in a tempter

Your rubbish day gets even worse

When you miss your stop.

(XIV)

Noting down train times

the more deserted each is

feels more heartbreaking

(XV)

Running from the train

their relief is clear rushing

out of the station.

(XVI)

You smile after he 

Hides his wedding ring then slips 

getting off the train

(XVII)

September darkness

Makes the late running train feel

even much later 

(XVIII)

He doesn’t wake him up

until he has missed his stop 

smiling silently

Underground (First Nine Haiku's in a new series on facebook - Late August 2020)

(I)

Out of tune busker

Pausing for a few moments

Opens up a beer.

(II)

Pausing for its breath

The train can’t look back turning

Away from the guard.

(III)

Getting off the train

You almost turn back round to

Get straight back on it.

(IV)

Stepping from the mist

You feel like you are stepping

From a dark film noir.

(V)

Pausing suddenly

you think briefly getting off

your pass is at home.

(VI)

On the way off you

Pick up a paper before

dropping in the rain.

(VII)

Back from holiday

Your bag won't stay on the rack

Wanting to go back.

(VIII)

The wind pushes you

Down the platform like it is

Wants off it quickly.

(IX)

Entering August

At your stop your train

Overfull doesn’t stop.

New Haikus and Tankas - Last July 2020 to Late August 2020 (posted on facebook)

 

Journey’s End
(In memory of Roger Quigley – 1969 to 2020)

Ringing in my ears
my dreams are like yours pinned to
a revolving door.

**

Neon mystery (New Haiku)

Backlit in Neon
the willows don't change colour
unlike what you say

 

**

Shrouded by the mist
bird sounds hover on the breeze
Beside a cold stream

**

As the evening fades
two women chat of lost love
Just before the tears

 

**

Slipping off the bank next to the river Tame

Calling out your name
The cuts and bruises are a
Painful reminder.

**

Disappearing in the midnight air across the meadows

Leaving no trace your
Feet disappear suddenly
In the midnight air.

 

**

Shifting moods in the moonlight (A Near Haiku)

Changing colour in
The moonlight your face looks like
a restless ghost.

 

**

Dissolving

counting memories
His face dissolves across
the road in the rain.

 

**

Behind You

Next to the water
The wind chases behind you
Like a naughty child.

 

**

Early Evening Walk

Come into the woods
The wind calls hidden inside
The Leaves and the bark.

 

**

Faces II (Upon stopping at trees at midnight in the forest)

Branches turn into
Angry faces at midnight
Like it was saying .
Just hurry up and go
before something nasty comes

*

Stopping at the Sea Wall

Closing shut your eyes
The pain only stops when you
Turn away for good

*

Faces (I) (A New Haiku)

Face down to the ground
your guilt is never more clearer
spoken out or not.

**

After last night’s storm
Striped nervously in the sky
The sun and the wind
Pauses Like they are
Studying what has happened.

*
After the storm has
Passed your daily walk looks more
And more unlikely.

*

5.00am Blues

Looking at your life
Awake before the alarm
You hear the birds cry.