Sea Oleena is the project of Montreal-based musician Charlotte Oleena. Drifting between ambient dream pop and atmospheric folk, her music is rich with textural warmth. With her softly whispered vocals and atmospheric tones, Oleena's music has been compared to acts like Grouper and Julianna Barwick, though in her more structured moments there are echoes of alternative pop icons the Cocteau Twins and Julee Cruise.
Aided by her brother Luke Loseth, she released a self-titled mini-album in 2010, followed by a second LP titled Sleeplessness a year later. Her third release, Shallow, arrived in 2014.
Six years later, Sea Oleena returned with Weaving a Basket, a seven-track outing that combined austere piano and guitar arrangements with ebbing swells of instrumentation and misty harmonies layered in a spectral chorus. Throughout the record, Oleena embraces the ambient backdrops of her surroundings — birds chirping, wind rustling, urban traffic — creating a close, intimate, and lived-in listening experience. Released in late fall 2020, the sounds capture the dual interiority and solemnity of that moment.
Sea Oleena is the project of Montreal-based musician Charlotte Oleena. Drifting between ambient dream pop and atmospheric folk, her music is rich with textural warmth. With her softly whispered vocals and atmospheric tones, Oleena's music has been compared to acts like Grouper and Julianna Barwick, though in her more structured moments there are echoes of alternative pop icons the Cocteau Twins and Julee Cruise.
Aided by her brother Luke Loseth, she released a self-titled mini-album in 2010, followed by a second LP titled Sleeplessness a year later. Her third release, Shallow, arrived in 2014.
Six years later, Sea Oleena returned with Weaving a Basket, a seven-track outing that combined austere piano and guitar arrangements with ebbing swells of instrumentation and misty harmonies layered in a spectral chorus. Throughout the record, Oleena embraces the ambient backdrops of her surroundings — birds chirping, wind rustling, urban traffic — creating a close, intimate, and lived-in listening experience. Released in late fall 2020, the sounds capture the dual interiority and solemnity of that moment.
"After a few listens, I feel good calling Weaving a Basket contender for the most gorgeous album of 2020"
"Partially a prayer, partially a promise to the universe, partially a love song"
"There is pain locked deep inside this album—which, ironically, comes across as a balm from pain, as though the only way to sing out the darknesses was to soothe them at the same time"
