Ocean Hieroglyphics was written and recorded in a mountain farmhouse on the Pacific coast of Taiwan. My goal with these instrumental compositions was to express the color and texture of the ocean using traditional instruments from a variety of cultures and continents.

OCEAN HIEROGLYPHICS is ambient world-folk music, a collection of instrumental landscapes in blue and gray and green painted with guitars, bamboo flutes, banjo, acoustic bass, harmonicas, jews harp, mbira and percussion.

1. between the city and the sea 域與海之間
2. throwing questions to the sea 問海
3. purification 清滌
4. clouds above orchid island 遠眺蘭嶼的雲
5. across this ocean, america 隔海對望，美國
6. undulations 波浪
7. patterns in the foam of breaking waves 碎浪泡沫的樣式
8. distant; receding 遠離：消融
9. the blue of wine 酒之海
10. seaflower 海花
11. sun sets on all I’ve left undone 諸事未竟的黃昏
12. green island after rain 遠眺雨後的綠島

Total time, 62:56

Song samples and downloads are available on Apple iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby.

To the Open Circle Tribe.
Composed, performed, recorded and produced by Scott Ezell.
Recorded on analog tape at Hinoki Studio, Etolan, Taiwan.
Mixed and mastered by Chen Guan-yu.
Special thanks to Wind Records.

Artist photo by Kuo Yi-hui.

Cover art by Scott Ezell
© 2003 Scott Ezell