[Cover photo credit to Jovi Zhang]

Berlin Post-Rock band The Ocean (Collective) have shared a remix of “Boreal” taken from their 9th studio album Holocene, by the Parisian Electro and Darkwave producer Sierra.

The second of two collaborative, mutual remixes between The Ocean and Sierra, “Boreal (SIERRA REMIX)” follows The Ocean’s creative full-band reimagining based on the original stems of “Traum” taken from Sierra’s 2023 album, A Story of Anger. 

Both tracks are now available to preorder as a limited edition split 7” exclusively through the direct webshop of The Ocean’s own Pelagic Records.

Sierra says about the collaboration:

I met The Ocean after one of my concerts in Berlin this year. We quickly discussed the idea of collaborating on mutual remixes of our tracks. I’m excited to finally get my remix of ‘Boreal’ out in the world! On their side, The Ocean recorded a totally new version of ‘Traum’, which was originally an instrumental piece. I really appreciate the work they’ve done on the vocals, it’s a beautiful rework.

The Ocean’s Robin Staps says about the project:

We could see an Oceanic interpretation of ‘Traum’ shape up in our minds straight away and we recorded it in a narrow time window between North American and Australian tours. It quickly turned into more than just a remix, becoming a full-fledged Ocean band-performance based on Sierra’s original stems: we tracked drums, guitars, bass and vocals and the outcome strays away quite far from the original, but sits in an interesting territory between Sierra’s latest album ‘A Story of Anger’ and our own latest album, ‘Holocene’.