Oceanator is the solo project of Elise Okusami, who you might know as the drummer from Vagabon (whose album Persian Garden we loved). The project is a new one, so new in fact that ‘Nowhere Nothing’ is her first song.
The track begins as a slow, warm folk song sung in a tone somewhere between forlorn and contemplative, though soon morphs into something more dramatic. Starting with the middle verse, where Okusami’s guitar and vocals slow like a steadying breath, the song slowly emerges into something wider and richer and full of impassioned life, all culminating in the maelstrom of noise that sees the track out.
“Close your eyes
we’ll take the first step at the same time
into that dark unknown
beyond these bulbs
if we ever emerge again
think of what we’ll tell them
when we were nowhere, we were nothing”
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You can grab the track on a pay-what-you-can basis now on the Oceanator Bandcamp page, and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for any future releases.