PROGRAM

Koki  Nakano’s  new  album,  Oceanic  Feeling,  is  a celebration of ambiguity. The album’s title is borrowed from an expression coined by the French  writer  and  musician  Romain  Rolland  in  1927.  In  a letter written to Sigmund Freud, Rolland described the  oceanic  feeling  as  “the  sensation  of  eternity,  a feeling  of  being  one  with  the  external  world  as  a whole”.  While  this  concept  of  oneness  permeates Nakano’s  whole  album,  the  music  also  deals  with his  inability  to  fully  live  in  this  so-called  oceanic feeling, capturing thus the composer’s longing, frustration and ultimately search for harmony within his own limitations.