about the record

Composed of hydrophone recordings of whales and dolphins captured during a summer in Galicia, Cetacean Sensation paints an impressionistic, sensory floating canvas that expertly escapes both academic-style documentary approaches and any new-age spa vibrations one might associate with the subject matter. Sun Araw transformed the raw recordings into alluring collages that flow gracefully between moments of clear echolocation and submerged impressions of wildlife social dynamics.