Up-and-coming artist Itai Bauman’s Watercolored offers a deeply emotional cut in “Dominos,” his most recent track from the conceptual album “Tears of the Sea.” Fit with poetic verse and riddled with enchanting sounds, Watercolored leads you on a quest that reflects the turbulent course of the external and internal worlds.
The song’s dramatic ambiance reflects the broader theme of “Tears of the Sea,” a concept album conceived as a voyage of discovering the oceans of the world and the oceans of the heart, soul, and universe. In “Dominos,” Watercolored describes the unpredictability of the ocean’s tides, the feeling of openness and solitude, and the introspective calm of traveling through the open sea.
Like the album it’s from, the track offers an experience that comes in waves, ebbs, and flows commensurate with those crashing into the inspiration behind it. “Dominos” quietly simmer, then gather steam in a shape larger than life, reflecting the unpredictability of real life as a wave of sound. The production is perfect, inspired by artists such as Porcupine Tree, Mercury Rev, and The Divine Comedy, which allow a note to tug you deeper into an ocean of emotion where chaos and harmony share the same state. The words to the song pull you into the complex emotional territory of traveling through the unfamiliar. Yet, amid the deluge, glimmers of reflective calm encourage you to contemplate the broader trajectory of self-discovery and development.
“Dominos“ is the cornerstone of “Tears of the Sea,” serving as a gateway to an album that is as much a book as a meditation on the emotional currents we encounter both outside and within. It’s a fine tension between tempest and calm disburdening, rendering the record a compelling and cathartic listen. For anyone ready to take a musical trip deep into the soul and explore Watercolored’s “Dominos,” this is the ticket to a journey into the vast realm that is “Tears of the Sea,” which, like the voyage, has the potential to be both life-changing and memorable.
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