About The Album
Oceanic by Niklas Paschburg (2018)
Niklas Paschburg is only 23 years old but he knows how to charm and bewitch with melodies and notes; mesmerizing sounds and a cinematic atmosphere, intense crescendo and a pop flavour that moves and fascinates. His debut album ‘Oceanic’ is a moving trip full of both melancholy and energy; twelve instrumental songs between neo-classical, ambient and electronic music inspired by nature.
“I live in the countryside but to compose this record I went to the Baltic Sea,” Niklas says. He spent as much time as possible on the coast throughout the past year, catching the mood, breathing in the sea breeze, listening to the constant flow of the waves and transposing it all into his music.
The result is a soundtrack of a landscape with echoes of Bonobo and Kiasmos, on the electronic side, and with Bon Iver as Paschburg’s main pop reference for the album’s structure, co-produced and mixed by Gijs van Klooster. On Oceanic, colours and dynamics melt with a nostalgic, sweet, delicate sound and energetic and touching progressions.
“There is the calm of the sea, but also its strength,” Paschburg explains. And that’s powerful.
Program
“Pier/Spark”
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Choreography:
Susan Crocker
Dancers:
Susan Crocker, Kim Hobbs, Melissa Bassett, Mallory Weber, Amelia Conway, Erin Enguehard, Ashley Hobbs, Kara Pender, Morgan Moakler Jessiman, Jenna Slaney, Mary Farrell, Peggy Rauman, Susan Kelsey, Ashley Dawe, Vanessa Matthews
“Sand Whirling”
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Choreography:
Mallory Weber
Dancers:
Mallory Weber, Vanessa Matthews
“Anew”
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Choreography:
Mallory Weber
Dancers:
Susan Crocker, Kara Pender, Susan Kelsey, Karen McBride, Peggy Rauman, Jenna Slaney
“Journey Among Worlds”
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Choreography:
Erin Enguehard
Soloist:
Erin Enguehard
Lantern Dancers:
Vanessa Matthews, Karen McBride
Light Dancers:
Morgan Moakler Jessiman, Kara Pender, Ashley Dawe, Peggy Rauman, Mallory Weber, Melissa Bassett
“Sonar”
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Choreography:
Ashley Hobbs
Dancers:
Ashley Hobbs, Susan Crocker, Vanessa Matthews
“Fade Away”
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Choreography:
Vanessa Matthews
Soloist:
Vanessa Matthews
Dancers:
Susan Crocker, Karen McBride, Mallory Weber, Erin Enguehard, Ashley Hobbs
“Fragmentation”
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Choreography:
Karen McBride
Dancers:
Susan Crocker, Karen McBride, Mallory Weber, Vanessa Matthews, Erin Enguehard, Ashley Hobbs, Kim Hobbs, Melissa Bassett, Amelia Conway, Kara Pender, Morgan Moakler Jessiman, Jenna Slaney, Mary Farrell, Peggy Rauman, Susan Kelsey, Ashley Dawe
“Abeyance”
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Choreography:
Karen McBride
Soloist:
Karen McBride
“Oceanic”
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Seraka Dance Company
Dancers:
Karen McBride, Mallory Weber, Ashley Hobbs, Vanessa Matthews, Erin Enguehard, Susan Crocker
“Magnetic Perturbation”
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Choreography:
Susan Crocker
Dancers:
Kim Hobbs, Melissa Bassett, Amelia Conway, Kara Pender, Morgan Moakler Jessiman, Jenna Slaney, Peggy Rauman, Susan Kelsey, Ashley Dawe
“Dawn Appears”
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Vanessa Matthews
Dancers:
Susan Crocker, Karen McBride, Mallory Weber, Vanessa Matthews, Erin Enguehard, Ashley Hobbs, Kim Hobbs, Melissa Bassett, Amelia Conway, Kara Pender, Morgan Moakler Jessiman, Jenna Slaney, Mary Farrell, Peggy Rauman, Susan Kelsey, Ashley Dawe
Production Team
Artistic Director
Vanessa Matthews
Costuming
Karen McBride
Set Design
Susan Crocker, Alec Matthews
Photography
Kit Sora
Videography
Sean Jessome
Graphic Design & Video Editing
Vanessa Matthews
Oceanic
by Amanda Labonté
What do you hear?
Waves shimmying over rocks
like easy breaths
In…out…
The sea gives
Teeming with life
Heaving forward
Swelling against the shore
Brace, brace, BRACE
The sea takes
Pulling, pushing
Into endless blue depths
In…out…
What do you see?
The horizon a perfect line
Between blues
Flicker…flicker…
The sea connects
Carrying along
A message in a bottle
Smashed against rocks
Crash, crash, CRASH
The sea divides
Carrying the pieces
Toward a faraway light
Flicker…flicker…
What do you feel?
The tang of salt air
Cool mist swirling, surrounding
Spin…spin…
The sea is life
Water rushing
Like blood swirling in veins
Spilling out
Pulse, pulse, pulse
The sea is death
Peaceful, cold
Letting go, holding close
Drift… drift…