Ultima Esperanza

Ultima Esperanza (“last hope”) is the name of the southernmost province on the South American continent, named after the inlet known as Última Esperanza Sound. The inlet was given its name by an explorer who hoped it would offer a passage to the Strait of Magellan. Instead it leads to a glacier — and ultimately a dead end.

Ultima Esperanza is the first chapter of the 21 minutes closing piece of "Solaris" and explores the intrinsically human notion of hope as the driving force behind all explorative endeavours, and loss thereof. It is a reflection on mental resilience, tracing the different stages of losing hope and the mind’s remarkable tendency to keep projecting it even onto the most dire realities, as an instinctive means of survival.

The Ocean Collective:

Jordi Farré - drums
Mattias Hägerstrand - bass
Marco Gennaro - guitar
Emmanuel Jessua - guitar
Robin Staps - guitar
Enrico Tiberi - vocals, celesta, rhodes
Lane Shi - vocals
Thorsten Quaeschning - synths
Orestis Zafiriou - synths
Jens Bogren - mix & mastering
Phillip Janta - illustration
Martin Kvamme - album artwork

Music video credits:
Built, shot and edited by Craig Murray
Costume by Rufus White
2nd Camera & Production Assistants: Jovi Zhang
Patch printing by Vinosangre

SOLARIS is out September 25.
Preorder now:
https://orcd.co/theocean-solaris