Dreams of Blue Ocean, New album out.
Click on the cover or copy the link below to listen to the music.
https://djangsan.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-of-blue-ocean
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“Dreams of Blue Ocean” is the soundtrack to “Sun Moon Bay”, a film about a crew of kids surfing in Hainan, a Chinese island located south of Guangzhou. The film is about their hopes and their dreams as they face challenges in their lives.
In 2013, as I went to play a solo set for a festival in Haikou, the capital of Hainan, I met with Emily Shen, a radio host at the local radio station. She liked my performance and asked me if I wanted to compose music for a film about surf in Hainan her and director Jeremy Trylch had started to make.
It’s a beautiful film.
I have gathered my experience as a musician to give some meaning to the music and to adapt to the mood of the film.In these tracks, I’ve been using quite a range of Chinese instruments like the Pipa, the Ruan, a few flutes, percussions, and I have also explored the possibilities of electronic music.I hope you’ll like it, the film will come out in the next few months, a film not to be missed !
I have gathered my experience as a musician to give some meaning to the music and to adapt to the mood of the film.In these tracks, I’ve been using quite a range of Chinese instruments like the Pipa, the Ruan, a few flutes, percussions, and I have also explored the possibilities of electronic music.I hope you’ll like it, the film will come out in the next few months, a film not to be missed !
A few words from Jeremy Trylch and Emily Shen, the two persons who made this film happen:
« We started filming Sun Moon Bay in early 2013. We initially thought it was going to be a fairly straightforward film about the birth of surf culture in China, but very quickly realized the subject matter was far richer and more meaningful than we could ever have imagined. »
« It’s a film about hope and despair, with the hope in the film being ultimately all the stronger for being hard-won. »« In terms of the story arc, we could not believe our luck. The year and a half of filming took us from the point when the local village children began a surf training program to the eventual entry of the protagonist Huang Yingying in her first international surfing competition. »
« The film is as true and honest as we ourselves could make it. » « Having started out thinking we were making a film about the birth of surf culture, we have completed the process with a much stronger film that deals with major themes, done in a moving way, with attractive characters and a beautiful story arc. We could not be happier. »
