The Ocean and the Sun

The Ocean and the Sun
Studio album by The Sound of Animals Fighting
Released	September 9, 2008
Genre	Experimental rock, progressive rock, art rock, ambient
Length	51:46
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Matthew Embree
The Sound of Animals Fighting chronology
Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... (2006) The Ocean and the Sun (2008)

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The Ocean and the Sun is the third and final album by experimental rock band, The Sound of Animals Fighting. The album features only the four core members that had appeared on both the first and second albums: the Nightingale, the Walrus, the Lynx, and The Skunk.

The first song, Intro, is the Persian translation of the English poem "In The Desert" by Stephen Crane. The original (English) version of this poem is printed on the inside jacket of the album. It is also read in English on the eleventh track. The title of the final track, On the Occasion of Wet Snow, is the title of the second section of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. The title of the seventh track, The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion, is taken from J. G. Ballard's Crash.

Vocal credits include Embree making his first vocal appearance on Blessings Be Yours Mister V and Green returning for the title track, Another Leather Lung, and The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion, and Balling returning on I, the Swan, Cellophane, and On the Occasion of Wet Snow; The Wolf aka Matthew Kelly, rounds out the credits with an appearance on On the Occasion of Wet Snow. Other vocalists include Jessica McWhirter on On the Occasion of Wet Snow, and Lauren Coleman on Uzbekistan and spoken word on the title track. Charlene Rogers (also on spoken word duty on Lover) appears on spoken word duty on Ahab.

The album peaked at 141 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Top Heatseekers chart.

Track listing

1. "Intro" - 0:31
2. "The Ocean and the Sun" - 5:38
3. "I, the Swan" - 4:13
4. "Another Leather Lung" - 5:14
5. "Lude" - 1:59
6. "Cellophane" - 4:58
7. "The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion" - 5:39
8. "Chinese New Year" - 1:06
9. "Uzbekistan" - 7:27
10. "Blessings Be Yours Mister V" - 6:37
11. "Ahab" - 1:00
12. "On the Occasion of Wet Snow" - 7:18

Credits

• Rich Balling - vocals, executive producer
• Matthew Embree - guitar, bass, vocals, producer, engineer, mixer
• Christopher Tsagakis - drums
• Anthony Green - vocals
• Matthew Kelly - featured on "On the Occasion of Wet Snow"
• Adrian, Elaina, and Victoria Benson - kids
• Mark Bush - trumpet
• Lauren Coleman - vocals/spoken words
• Jessica McWhirter - vocals
• Newsha Mohajeri - Persian
• Charlene Rogers - spoken word on "Ahab"
• Edouard Wlodarczyk - French poem
• Wes Irving - assistant engineer
• David Embree - assistant engineer, co-production on "Uzbekistan"
• Austin Johnson - assistant engineer
• Charles Johnson-Nunez - assistant engineer
• Stephanie Villa - mastering

External links

• Track By Track guide from The Nightingale on Rockmidgets.com
• Epitaph Page