{"product_id":"cobalt-desert-oasis","title":"Cobalt Desert Oasis","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarco Shuttle's third album, Cobalt Desert Oasis, features a varied collection of music recorded across a two year period. Often traveling to remote destinations, Marco would come back to Berlin with field recordings, images, and other inspirations to process in his studio and turn into sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theme of the journey turns into a something more abstract than a travel diary, where environmental sounds blend in with modular synthesis, drum machines, effects and analog oscillators resulting in a cinematic listening experience where psychedelia, ritualism, and mysticism weave together in a sort of alien soundscape - that as the title of the album suggests, is reminiscent of a parallel utopian world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is rich in complex rhythmics, and more than in any of his previous work, has strong acoustic elements. Amongst other percussion instruments, Marco used the Tombak, a traditional Persian hand drum capable of reaching a very wide range of frequencies - from deep round subby toms, to high pitched sharp rimshots, throughout the record. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarco Shuttle is certainly not new to these sort of elements, but in Cobalt Desert Oasis he brings the environmental element of his sound into the forefront in a way that takes the listener into a hazy expanse where it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the machine elements from the natural - and where the music almost becomes a visual experience, which relates to Marco's own photography used throughout the cover and insert images. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Incienso","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50453489877323,"sku":"1129862","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e683af34-cdee-47ba-a3ca-3f415f754ba2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727172775","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/cobalt-desert-oasis","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}