Ocean - Ocean Vinyl

The album from Ocean was recorded at Apostolic Studios in New York in the summer of 1969 – and remained unreleased until 2020.

It’s a real folk-rock-gem combining a variety of styles – in the end that’s not surprising because in a way it’s the follow-up to John Townley’s wonderfully eclectic “Family of Apostolic”-double-LP, released on Vanguard/Apostolic in 1968. The basic idea of Ocean was to go a step further than the Family of Apostolic by having a performing band behind the album. But after the recording the band fell apart and the album remained on the shelf.

The master tape was lost when the Apostolic Studios went under in 1970 – but John Townley rescued a mono reference copy of the final mix which you have here.