Strange Oasis, by Million Brazilians

Strange Oasis

by Million Brazilians

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	1.	Strange Oasis I 10:06
	2.	Strange Oasis II 09:02
	3.	Strange Oasis III 09:57
	4.	Strange Oasis IV 12:19
	5.	Strange Oasis V 06:05
	6.	Strange Oasis VI 11:08

about

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

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released October 28, 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

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