"Silver Sea Surfer School", a new CD by Inca Ore
Eva Saelens lives in Oakland, California, where she created her solo music project Inca Ore on her 25th birthday in 2004. Birthdays have been a theme since the project's conception. Self-invention, musical intercourse birthing prisms of self - this musician came into creativity suddenly, and has since been strongly inspired by the unimaginable geographies of self discovered through the act."Silver Sea Surfer School" is available in our online shop.
The incongruent substance of Inca Ore's recordings, released over the years by Weird Forest, Not Not Fun, 5RC, Collective Jyrk, Acuarela, Chocolate Monk and Ruralfaune, are distinctly hers because of the unpredictable dimensions of her musical personality and her insistence on going there and everywhere.
Inca Ore's music has been a weave of oddities as her project has unfolded over the years: huge choruses of her own chattering voice, little vittles of peasanty trots, ghouly vocal promenades, honest and bare songs with unconventional arrangements, rainbowing piano solos and an overall vibe of mysterious and personal musical choices.
Her newest album is Silver Sea Surfer School, her most verbally discernable album since her debut, Brute Nature Versus Wild Magic. The songs were culled over months of playing in her home studio on 13th Avenue in Oakland, and many began as odes to her neighbors, who could hear her practices clearly. The neighbors included preteen sisters, residents of a group home for transitioning people with severe mental illness, a clairvoyant 60ish bad witch, a Vietnamese family with weekly karaoke parties and a family of Chinese people new to America.
The songs were guided by ideas of gospel and centered around emotional and spiritual themes but playfully boogie with goofy touches and punctures of highness. Infinite friendship, rebirth through love, dialing the muse, braving the rushing rapids of a lifetime - all themes cradled and polished on this disc, and stirred and mixed with a few more abstracted touches like an obsidian organ track and a couple of escapes into smeary selfness. It's another happy birthday on this Inca Ore album, as many courageous unique gestures communicate one more voyage into one person: shouts for liberation, murmurs for mysterious naps into the blur, misty tender homages to love and crisp wishing for guidance from the heavens above.
Inca Ore's music has been a weave of oddities as her project has unfolded over the years: huge choruses of her own chattering voice, little vittles of peasanty trots, ghouly vocal promenades, honest and bare songs with unconventional arrangements, rainbowing piano solos and an overall vibe of mysterious and personal musical choices.
Her newest album is Silver Sea Surfer School, her most verbally discernable album since her debut, Brute Nature Versus Wild Magic. The songs were culled over months of playing in her home studio on 13th Avenue in Oakland, and many began as odes to her neighbors, who could hear her practices clearly. The neighbors included preteen sisters, residents of a group home for transitioning people with severe mental illness, a clairvoyant 60ish bad witch, a Vietnamese family with weekly karaoke parties and a family of Chinese people new to America.
The songs were guided by ideas of gospel and centered around emotional and spiritual themes but playfully boogie with goofy touches and punctures of highness. Infinite friendship, rebirth through love, dialing the muse, braving the rushing rapids of a lifetime - all themes cradled and polished on this disc, and stirred and mixed with a few more abstracted touches like an obsidian organ track and a couple of escapes into smeary selfness. It's another happy birthday on this Inca Ore album, as many courageous unique gestures communicate one more voyage into one person: shouts for liberation, murmurs for mysterious naps into the blur, misty tender homages to love and crisp wishing for guidance from the heavens above.