The Ocean and Me

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The Ocean and Me
Studio album by Sophie Zelmani

Publication
(s)

2008

Label (s) Sony Music

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Pop, folk

Title (number)

12

running time

42:13

The Ocean and Me is the eighth studio album by the Swedish singer and songwriter Sophie Zelmani . It was released on September 8, 2008 .

Track list

  1. The Ocean and Me - 3:56
  2. Composing - 5:19
  3. Spring Love - 3:09
  4. Time - 3:55
  5. Passing By - 3:20
  6. Wind Took My Sail - 3:05
  7. Yeah, ok - 3:33
  8. Love - 3:13
  9. I've Got a Suspicion - 3:46
  10. This Room - 3:51
  11. July Waits - 2:39
  12. I Will Be There - 3:47

Musical description

The music is mainly acoustically instrumented. The “romantic folk” offers plenty of space for Zelmani's voice to “sing about longing, regret and bittersweet love”. According to the dpa , Zelmani interprets "sometimes more whispering than singing twelve atmospheric songs that sound reduced and crystal clear and yet profound and touching". The media service teleschau says that the piano “does not make your melancholic acoustic pop too entertaining”. soundmag.de describes the album as "musical escapism", beneath whose textual surface "everyday interactions" were seething. Role models such as Bob Dylan , Van Morrison , Leonard Cohen and Neil Young are named as musical references .

Emergence

Zelmani and her producer Lasse Halapi specifically changed the way they work for The Ocean And Me . Instead of recording the individual songs one after the other, they worked on a different piece every day in a predetermined order. As a result, the songs influenced each other. After completing the recordings, the individual titles were selected using a holistic selection process that is not described in detail.

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Ocean And Me
  SE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/11/2008 (12 weeks)
  CH 12 09/21/2008 (5 weeks)

Commercial win

The album debuted at number 1 in the Swedish charts and reached number 12 in the Swiss album charts.

Reviews

cdkritik.de praises the album for setting “standards for the songwriter genre” by extending “the moment of happiness to album length”. cdstarts.de says that the album was successful "in the usual pleasant way" and awards 7/10 points. teleschau praises the “delicate, almost invisible music” and awards 4/5 points. soundmag.de awards 7/10 points and states that the album "floats completely in its own euphony". musicheadquarter.de awards 9/10 points and compares the music on the album with watching "waves [...] as they gently lap on the beach". This makes it "predictable, calming and never boring, just beautiful".

There was, however, also negative criticism: nordische-musik.de complains that Zelmani's delicately whispered pieces “are deteriorating more and more compositionally”, and fears that “Sophie Zelmani has lost its paint”. Plattentests.de describes the album as "too cute, too mild, negligible" and awards 4/10 points.

The Ocean and Me Tour 2008

The first of 22 concerts in Switzerland , Austria , Germany and Sweden took place on September 20, 2008 in Zurich , the last on October 31, 2008 in Sundsvall .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CD review: Sophie Zelmani ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home-entertainment.magnus.de
  2. ↑ Album at jpc.de
  3. ^ A b Sophie Zelmani: "The Ocean and Me" flows along
  4. ↑ a b Review ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on soundmag.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soundmag.de
  5. ↑ Sophie Zelmani - New album "The Ocean And Me" will be released on sound-pool.blogspot.com at the end of August
  6. ↑ Charts CH Charts SE
  7. ↑ Sophie Zelmani - The Ocean And Me (album) on swedishcharts.com (English)
  8. ↑ Sophie Zelmani - The Ocean And Me (album) on swisscharts.com
  9. ↑ Michael Frost: Sophie's feeling for happiness on cdkritik.de
  10. ^ Matthias Reichel: Review on cdstarts.de
  11. ↑ Jessica Walther: Review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on musicheadquarter.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / musicheadquarter.de  
  12. ↑ Peter Bickel: Review on nordische-musik.de
  13. ↑ Oliver Ding: Review of plate tests online