Oceana Company is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band comprising Matthijs Herder (vocals/guitar/mellotron), Michiel Ferweda (guitar), Han Schilder (bass guitar) & Robert Koole (drums). Their music is notable for its melancholic- and psychedelic overtones and the use of authentic keyboard instruments like a mellotron

Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

. Their 2008 debut album 'For The Boatman' was produced by Marcel v/d Vondervoort of Astrosoniq and released by Spacejam Records/Suburban Records

Suburban Records

Suburban Records is a record label based in The Netherlands. In 1999 Suburban Records, the inhouse label of Suburban Marketing & Distribution was created giving a home to bands like Peter Pan Speedrock, El Guapo Stuntteam, Hermano, Astrosoniq, Keith Caputo and the latest signings Shaking Godspeed,...

. Their song 'Trenchfever' reached number 1 in the Dutch Indiechart in May 2008. In 2009 the band is selected for the Dutch Popronde 2009.

External links

• Bands official homepage
• Band's own myspace page
• Interview 'Lords Of Metal'
• Musicfrom.nl interview track-by-track analyses 'For The Boatman'
• Progarchives Biography
• OOR review
• Debuutalbum voor Oceana Company, De Stentor
  De Stentor
  De Stentor is an Apeldoorn-based Dutch regional newspaper, appearing in several editions, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. It is owned by Wegener....
  
  
• CD van Zwolse band met roots in Emmeloord, De Stentor
  De Stentor
  De Stentor is an Apeldoorn-based Dutch regional newspaper, appearing in several editions, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. It is owned by Wegener....
  
  
• Programma festival No Bowling rond, Friesch Dagblad
• The Pineapple Thief en de Oceana Company, LiveXS
• Oceana Company - For The Boatman, dprp.net