Beach Captain, by Ocean Music

Beach Captain

by Ocean Music

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1.	Bird on the Wire 05:32	buy track
2.	Blue Moon (Part Infinity) 03:46	buy track
3.	Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 04:23	buy track
4.	Mexico 02:28	buy track
5.	Night Falls Like A Grand Piano 02:36	buy track
6.	One Day At A Time 04:01	buy track
7.	Papa Was A Rodeo 07:03	buy track
8.	Silver Dagger 03:26	buy track
9.	Small Hands 05:19	buy track
10.	Someday 05:55	buy track

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BEACH CAPTAIN
notes on an album by Jaime Wright

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Like the feeling of being on a rooftop in the city on the first warm summer night, Beach Captain is a soft celebration, and a return home. It is a liquid joy. On this solo compilation of beloved covers and treasured B-side originals, Ocean Music’s Richard Aufrichtig, reveals once again that he is as prolific as he is open-hearted. Recorded in just a day and featuring only Aufrichtig’s voice and guitar, Beach Captain is a simple lofi rock love letter to you the listener, to his heroes, and to himself. Aufrichtig’s songs are elegaic musings which elevate the mundane in a straight-forward, and exuberant way. They are diary entries, but also landscapes. His original songs pair so sweetly with covers––songs that he loves. You might know these songs (by Bob Dylan & Joanna Newsom & Joan Baez & The Strokes!), but you haven’t heard them.

(Have you ever actually listened to the lyrics to “Someday”? Or to any song by The Strokes? You’ll hear the lyrics on Beach Captain. Their melancholy might surprise you.)

Beach Captain is an album that you meet. It’s handed to you, like a gift. It’s an observation, and a part of the collection. And it’s meant to be shared.

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released May 18, 2018

All sounds performed by Richard Aufrichtig
Engineered and Mixed by Dan Crowley
Mastered by Sage Mastering

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