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In The Ocean

by Aga Ujma

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Happy to officially welcome Aga Ujma to the Slow Dance family with debut single ‘In The Ocean’ paired with a short animation by New York artist Gabriela Sibilska. Aga is a captivating individual, both her music and personality brim with a childlike openness but also a hint of a fairytale darkness
beneath the autumnal warmth, we couldnt be more excited to share her music to the world.

‘In the ocean’ was written using traditional polyphonic Central Javanese patterns (cengkok) played on gender barung in unusual ways: I extended them, chopped in little chunks and alternated some of their melodies and glued them back together, creating a mosaic with numeric music notation (kepatihan) Then, I fitted in a tailored singing part with a poem that reflects on the state of sadness and where it can lead us if we trust the process. It also touches upon missing multiple homes at the same time and a psychedelic tropical picnic on a desert beach.
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‘In The Ocean’ is a delicately textured track that combines her soothing vocals with syncopated rhythms and abrupt changes in tone performed on her other instrument of choice, a gendèr, which is a Gamelan instrument used in Balinese and Javanese traditional music. It is paired with a music video by experimental animation artist Gabriela Sibilska, Polish-born but based in New York.

lyrics

your sadness - it's a way
It's a river
that looks like milk

some people are louder when they're gone
there are some homes I'll never find again

do you remember when you used to hold me
in the ocean like a newborn
I was floating safely in your arms
for these moments water was our home
and the air was our kiss

red and yellow fish were petting my feet
corals underneath us were staring with white eyes

sun was glazed in rainbow

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released March 23, 2021

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