Walt McClements – “On a Painted Ocean” (Released 4th April 2025)

Description

//Western Vinyl//

£23.99 – 1xLP

A suite of searching accordion and pipe organ-led pieces that travel a steady course, swelling and expanding with a tide of tender emotion.

The composer and multi-instrumentalist takes the title of his second album from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous epic, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and its depiction of a boat that’s stalled at sea—As idle as a painted ship/ Upon a painted ocean. It’s an impression that mirrors both the process and the product of Mc Clements’s Western Vinyl release, from the gentle unfurling of a raw reed tone on opener “A Painted Ship” to the gritty ebb and flow of effects-laden drone on “Washed Up,” and the closing flutter and signal interference that noisily builds toward triumphant euphoria on“Clattering.” A credit to strong relationships and mutual support, the album charts a personal pilgrimage – adapting to the tides and remembering your community can help when you feel stuck at sea.

Tracklisting:

1. July Blue Skies
2. Sky Train Baby
3. Venus Of Barsoon
4. Ikuchi
5. Summer Of Synesthesia
6. Tsicroxe