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|Caption = Image associated with the song
|Caption = Image associated with the song
|Alt_name =  The Endless Longing of Sea Doves
|Alt_name =  The Endless Longing of Sea Doves
|Artist = Dead Can Dance (without Brendan and Lisa)
|Artist = Dead Can Dance (without Brendan and Lisa)  
|Genre = Ambient
|Genre = Ambient
|Length = 20:00
|Length = 20:11
|Year = 1988
|Year = 1988
|Status = Nearly solved; Live performance available
|Status = Nearly solved
|OP =
|OP = Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine
|Search_started =  2021
|Search_started =  2012
|Search_ended = 2023/2024
|Search_ended = 2023/2024
|Media =  
|Media = TheEndlessLongingofSeaDoves.mp3
}}
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'''Oceania''', alternatively known as '''The Endless Longing of Sea Doves''' is a nearly solved Lostwave. It was firstly appeared on the web because of 1993 Dead Can Dance bootleg album "The Golden Age" and mostly considered as a misattributed to Dead Can Dance. However, it's almost fully proven that it really originates from Dead Can Dance concerts of December 1988 in Hamburg and Paris as an opening act, being the only appearances of the track. According to tracklist it's called "Oceania" and the duration is about 20 minutes. Among with some other DCD tracks, such as Awakening, Ocean, and others, it is never released and appeared on various bootleg albums.  
'''"Oceania"''' (also known as "'''The Endless Longing of Sea Doves'''") is a nearly solved lostwave that is most likely an unreleased song by Australian band Dead Can Dance. It is considered to be one of the longest lostwave songs, lasting slightly more than 20 minutes.  


Oceania was considered as the longest Lostwave song.
== Background ==
The song first appeared on a Dead Can Dance bootleg album titled "The Golden Age" in 1993, claiming to have been recorded live in 1988.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/1226453-Dead-Can-Dance-The-Golden-Age</ref> Two more identical bootleg albums containing the song followed titled The Hidden Treasures (1995) and Lost Treasures (2014).<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/1231075-Dead-Can-Dance-The-Hidden-Treasures</ref><ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/19951567-Dead-Can-Dance-Lost-Treasures</ref>


==Background==
According to the fansite deadcandance.info, the song is called Oceania, it was performed at the beginning of a live performance on December 5th, 1988 in Paris and December 10th, 1988 in Hamburg,<ref>http://www.deadcandance.info/88.html</ref><ref>https://musicbrainz.org/release/cdfdeff2-7b16-4cc8-8842-3af7d9226440</ref> and it was performed without founding members Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard.<ref>http://www.deadcandance.info/mixed.html</ref> The same information is available from a tape trading list from 1999, but the song is credited as The Endless Longing of Sea Doves rather than Oceania.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990903143106/http://www.multimania.com:80/armando/dcdlive1988.htm</ref>
In August 28, 2012, '''Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine''' uploaded the song from a bootleg to SoundCloud, with the title ''Dead Can Dance - The Endless Longing of Sea Doves''. The user '''hex''' commented that it's not a song of Dead Can Dance, and adding that "It is commonly known that the bootleger made a mistake". This made a speculations regarding the misattribution of the song.


==Links==
On August 28th, 2012, user Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine uploaded the song to Soundcloud, and a commenter named hex84 claimed that the song was not by Dead Can Dance, but provided no additional information.<ref>https://soundcloud.com/alfredo-brvxias-fanzine/16-the-endless-longing-of-sea</ref>
*[https://on.soundcloud.com/Z2ZWCmfBt8Lt614W8 The original upload on SoundCloud]
 
*[https://youtu.be/psiVKPni5-Y The original record from bootleg on YouTube]
On April 18th, 2024, Reddit user numerophobe posted another version of the song, which appears to be a different recording and is one minute shorter than the bootleg version.<ref>https://voca.ro/1iR659wjd3Rl</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1c5xc2z/comment/l02y5jt/</ref>
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1c5xc2z/yesterday_i_posted_the_shortest_lostwave_song/ Reddit post explaining the origins]
 
*[https://vocaroo.com/1iR659wjd3Rl Vocaroo snippet of the live concert]
==Resources==
*[https://musicbrainz.org/release/cdfdeff2-7b16-4cc8-8842-3af7d9226440 Tracklist of the concert]
<references />
*[http://www.deadcandance.info/88.html Another reference to the song]


[[Category:Underidentified]]
[[Category:Underidentified]]
[[Category:Ambient]]
[[Category:Ambient]]

Latest revision as of 16:48, 27 July 2024

ⓘ This lostwave is classified as nearly solved.

Oceania

Image associated with the song
Alternative name(s) The Endless Longing of Sea Doves
Artist(s) Dead Can Dance (without Brendan and Lisa)
Genre Ambient
Length 20:11
Year 1988
Status Nearly solved
Original poster Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine
Search duration 2012 - 2023/2024
File:TheEndlessLongingofSeaDoves.mp3

"Oceania" (also known as "The Endless Longing of Sea Doves") is a nearly solved lostwave that is most likely an unreleased song by Australian band Dead Can Dance. It is considered to be one of the longest lostwave songs, lasting slightly more than 20 minutes.

Background[edit | edit source]

The song first appeared on a Dead Can Dance bootleg album titled "The Golden Age" in 1993, claiming to have been recorded live in 1988.[1] Two more identical bootleg albums containing the song followed titled The Hidden Treasures (1995) and Lost Treasures (2014).[2][3]

According to the fansite deadcandance.info, the song is called Oceania, it was performed at the beginning of a live performance on December 5th, 1988 in Paris and December 10th, 1988 in Hamburg,[4][5] and it was performed without founding members Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard.[6] The same information is available from a tape trading list from 1999, but the song is credited as The Endless Longing of Sea Doves rather than Oceania.[7]

On August 28th, 2012, user Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine uploaded the song to Soundcloud, and a commenter named hex84 claimed that the song was not by Dead Can Dance, but provided no additional information.[8]

On April 18th, 2024, Reddit user numerophobe posted another version of the song, which appears to be a different recording and is one minute shorter than the bootleg version.[9][10]

Resources[edit | edit source]