Oceania
ⓘ This lostwave is classified as nearly solved. | |
| Oceania | |
 Image associated with the song | |
| Alternative name(s) | The Endless Longing of Sea Doves |
|---|---|
| Genre | Ambient |
| Length | 20:11 |
| Year | 1988 |
| Status | Likely solved |
| Original poster | Alfredo Brvxias Fanzine |
| Search started | 2012 |
| File:TheEndlessLongingofSeaDoves.mp3 | |
"Oceania" (also known as "The Endless Longing of Sea Doves") is an unsolved lostwave that is 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
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 2003 fansite deadcandance.info, the song is titled Oceania, it was performed as the first song from a live performance on December 5th, 1988 in Paris, France and December 10th, 1988 in Hamburg, Germany,[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]
There are no known complete copies of the two Dead Can Dance bootleg recordings from 1988, but Reddit user numerophobe posted an alleged snippet from one of the bootlegs with the first two songs stitched together using audio-joiner.com, which appears to be a different recording and is one minute shorter than the song,[9] but the user provided no source for his recording.[10]
Resources
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/1226453-Dead-Can-Dance-The-Golden-Age
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/1231075-Dead-Can-Dance-The-Hidden-Treasures
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/19951567-Dead-Can-Dance-Lost-Treasures
- ↑ http://www.deadcandance.info/88.html
- ↑ https://musicbrainz.org/release/cdfdeff2-7b16-4cc8-8842-3af7d9226440
- ↑ http://www.deadcandance.info/mixed.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19990903143106/http://www.multimania.com:80/armando/dcdlive1988.htm
- ↑ https://soundcloud.com/alfredo-brvxias-fanzine/16-the-endless-longing-of-sea
- ↑ https://voca.ro/1iR659wjd3Rl
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1c5xc2z/comment/l1f8hy1/