The Wine Dark Sea, by Christopher Bissonnette

The Wine Dark Sea

by Christopher Bissonnette

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1.	See With Eyes Closed 05:46	buy track
2.	Color Deceives Continuously 06:53	buy track
3.	One Line Plus One Line 05:57	buy track
4.	Choreographer Of Space 06:11	buy track
5.	Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom 05:58	buy track
6.	The Desire To Destroy Beauty 05:26	buy track
7.	Color Deceives Continuously (reprise) 06:43	buy track
8.	Black Will Swallow The Red 05:18	buy track

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The Wine Dark Sea is Bissonnette’s fifth solo studio album. The album’s title is derived from the writings of Homer, where he oft referred to a rough and stormy sea as “wine-dark”. Homer’s descriptions of colour are devoid of any reference to the colour blue. And any suggested meaning in his description of the sea point to the colour red. This apparent contradiction has brought much speculation about the significance and understanding of colour in ancient Greece. Keeping with the motif of colour, track titles on the album are based on references from contemporary artists and their insights on colour, form and implied meaning.

The album represents a shift for Bissonnette’s work, moving from an exclusively synth-based series of explorations to a hybrid of electronic and acoustic methods. The result is a rolling and slow-moving tide of tones and undulations. The textures are in some passages soft and mollifying but fluently shift to moments of tension and unease. The Wine Dark Sea is an aural allegory to sound and colour and our tenuous understanding of abstract meaning.

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released March 13, 2020

Mastered by Porya Hatami
Cover photo by Christopher Bissonnette

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