OCEANBASE

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$ Lee Rosevere: Four Reasons

Oceanbase is proud to present you with the latest by prolific Canadian composer Lee Rosevere. Four Reasons is a series of quiet, relatively long works you can immerse yourself in, great for meditating or quiet concentration. Although we have delved into restrained material before, this is our first entirely ambient release.

Lee Rosevere is quite the experienced artist, having released on Test Tube, Enough Records, WM Recordings, Proc-Records, and his own Happy Puppy. He has made lots of ambient and avant-garde music, but never quite does the same thing twice; in fact, this may be his most minimal yet dynamic outing to date.

While this release includes plenty of music, if you find yourself especially enjoying it, consider buying a 4-CD "artist edition" box set, available directly from Lee for only $25 (of which $18 will be donated to the Internet Archive, the nonprofit which hosts direct downloads of Lee's and our music). Limited to only 10 copies, the box set contains extended versions of these compositions plus a bonus track, for over 4 hours of music.

Either way, this is a delightful sound palette of subtle colors to enjoy again and again. Sonically simple, yet compositionally complex. Oceanbase gives you Four Reasons to join us for a swim.

If you have a BitTorrent client, that may be the most convenient way to download this release. Pick your favorite file format:

Or download the album directly from Internet Archive, where you can also listen online.

This is ocean13, released June 26, 2008. Total running time: 77 minutes, 14 seconds. Artwork by Jeremy Bushnell. This music is in the public domain: Share and enjoy.