DESCRIPTION:
THE SEA CHANGE

The studio music project The Sea Change was founded 1991 in Hamburg, Germany by Sven Gordon Williams & Ralf Walter Marquardt. The project is devoted to a combination of music, literature, painting, photography and video art. In co-operation with many well-known international musicians, 5 albums have been produced by now.

Sven & Ralf are operating their own music production company MWM™ and their own independent label ISM™ - I See Music™ LC 13826.

Albums by The Sea Change are timeless, independent and yet catchy. The genre of music - Storyteller - is best described as singer/songwriter crossover with jazz, latin, blues and rock elements.


Discography:

One (1997)
It all started with a collection of poems and some of their own lyrics.
Western Breeze is a quote from the novel Lady Of The Lake (1810) by Sir Walter Scott. The band's first video for the song All The Time was shot on locations in Scotland.

Journey To The Moon (2000).
Another collection of poems and more of their own lyrics.
The Sound for example is inspired by the poem Little Prince by New York director Julian Schnabel.

The Letter (recorded in 2001, published by ISM™ in 2006)
This album is -- for the first time -- entirely based on a novel, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett. The making of video is legendary.

"...Listening to the songs brought back many vivid memories of the period I was going through when I wrote the book. I sat in my chair and listened to it over and over. They are all very beautiful songs -- I hear echoes of Cohen, but also of Waits. If I have a favourite it is "Hold Up The Moon". I heard it in my head as I drove into town this morning, and even as I sit here to write this...", Mr. Bennett wrote.

Moby Dick (recorded in 2005, published by ISM™ in 2006).
This album is based on the epic novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
All 16 songs where put into paint (acryl on canvas, 150x150) by Sven Gordon Williams and Frank Otto (a Hamburg based entrepreneur).
A musical highlight is the collaboration with the legendary New York jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff.

The Dream Of The Undefeated (recorded in 2012/2013, published by ISM™ in 2014).

After 2 novel based projects, the band was locking for a new and challenging literary source. They found it in the genre short stories.

Short stories date back to oral story-telling traditions, which originally produced epics such as Homer's Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. In other words, short stories were originally song lyric.

The 13 songs are lyrically inspired by a selection of Hemingway's short stories. That they chose Hemingway for this seems almost natural, his short story The Sea Change already became the eponym of the band in 1991.

The artwork of the booklet shows the photograph of a writer's working table: A typewriter, surrounded by Memorabilia. Close-ups let us travel back in time, song by song.

Once again, Lew Soloff is back in the team. Other international guests are: Triple JazzEcho winner Omar Rodrigues Calvo, Cuba (Double Bass), Roland Cabezas, Spain (Guitar), Simon Grey, Australia (Fender Rhodes & Hammond Organ). Furthermore: Ingolf Burkhardt (Trumpet), Phillip Kacza (Trumpet & Flugelhorn) and Markus Scheltinga (Trombone), Andreas Barkhoff (Trombone), Detlef Raschke (Tenor Saxophone), Hinrich Dageför (Accordion & Fado Guitar), Anke Schaubrenner, Anja Burow and Nina Maleika Lorenz (Background Vocals)

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Sven Gordon Williams.

Artwork by Sven Gordon Williams, photographs by Ralf Walter Marquardt. Portraits by Steven Haberland.


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