Ocean of Sound

Soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti

Twin Peaks

Although Twin Peaks, designed by Lynch and writer Mark Frost for ABC-TV, degenerated into aimlessness, the original pilot contained moments of genuine strangeness, particularly the music and the red-curtain ending.

Cruise, Julee

Floating Into the Night

This fruitful partnership went on to produce performance pieces, television commercials and an album – Floating Into the Night.

Debussy, Claude

Images/Estampes/Deux Arabesques

The image of bathing in sound is a recurrent theme of the past hundred years: Debussy’s Images and Ravel’s Jeux d’eau ripple around the listener …

Bryars, Gavin

The Sinking of the Titanic

… Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic sinks us into the abyss of fading echoes …

Reload

A Collection of Short Stories

… Reload’s whale sounds and samples from The Deep on A Collection of Short Stories …

Cocteau Twins

Echoes in a Shallow Bay

… Cocteau Twins’ Echoes In a Shallow Bay EP …

The Beach Boys

Smile

… created for Smile at a time when Brian Wilson was descending into a deep dark trench of psychedelic incapacity and Mike Love was fasting and meditating with such fervour that he began to believe that he might be able to talk to the birds.

Wilson, Dennis

Pacific Ocean Blue

In fact, of all the Beach Boys, the one who came closest to the oceanic was Dennis Wilson, whose solo album – Pacific Ocean Blue – hovered compellingly between surfer’s ecstasy, nature worship and alcoholic sentimentality.

Bush, Kate

The Dreaming

… The Dreaming album of 1982 anticipated all that would blossom into credibility in the 1990s: didgeridoos …

Bush, Kate

Hounds of Love

Hounds of Love, Kate Bush’s 1985 album, was two releases in one.