Let me start with a bit of a side note. I will write about this, but I won’t give you a verdict or opinion. Why? Because this is way more than ‘just’ a CD, and at the moment, I am incapable of going through the whole experience. “It’s Always Ourselves We Find In The Sea” is an art installation that can be experienced at The Piece Hall in Halifax between the 4th of April and the 4th of May 2025. This CD, in my opinion, comes as a little document you can ‘take him’ and relive through the installation. Sure, it’s a proper CD, and it sounds well, but … It’s not the experience.
The CD has two pieces, forming a whole together. “Part One – A Call To Water” has some heavy industrial sounds exchanged for field recordings. Because of the repetitive voices it becomes kind of tribal, something you might not expect in the English environment it grew from. The promo sheet explains it better: “Throughout the history of our species and all across the globe, humankind has petitioned the deities of the sky and sea deities for the benediction of rain and deliverance from natural disasters.”
“Part Two – The Water Circle” is way more fluent, with lots of washes and sounds of water in all its aspects. As a thunderstorm, a stream in between rocks, turning into a river, then the sea … As a source of life. In 20 minutes this piece is ‘just’ a beautiful depiction of water being the meaning of life, the source of all life. It’s what brings us together as well as what divides us.
As a whole, the CD has a way to short playtime of only 30 minutes. It could/should be longer to be interesting. But in combination with the whole art installation, I think it’s a nice document. Check the links at the bottom to get a bit of the atmosphere, and if you can, be sure to support the project and visit the installation.
Event: https://www.thepiecehall.co.uk/event/its-always-ourselves-we-find-in-the-sea
Project: https://alwaysourselves.com
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