Seeland

As well as being the home of Black Sabbath and the British Heavy Metal Scene, during the early 00's Birmingham spawned a new musical scene, inspired by space age pop, the BBC Radiophonic workshop, Joe Meek and eccentric 60's Library music. Some called it "The retro futurist electronica scene".



Seeland formed in the winter of 2004 amid the fallout from that scene and feature two members from the most influential bands of that time, Plone and Broadcast.



Seeland is Tim Felton (Vocals, Guitars) Mike "Billy" Bainbridge (Electronics, Vocals) and Neil McAuley (Bass)



The trio create melodic electronic space structures often reminiscent of the music made by Brian Eno and Krautrock pioneers Cluster and Harmonia with an added Beach Boys pop sensibility and a hint of John Maus' idiosyncratic charm. Using a variety of vintage analogue synths, valve amps and esoteric audio equipment the group go to great lengths to create their transcendental pop nuggets.



The band have released a single and an EP on Stereolab's duophonic super 45's and contributed two tracks to two much sought after, long out of print Static Caravan compilations.



Seeland signed to Loaf recordings in 2009, their debut album "Tomorrow Today" was released in March 2009.



Three singles have been taken from the album; "Library", "Goodbye" and "Captured". The latter featuring remixes by The Advisory Circle and Thomas Knack.



Seeland have also remixed tracks by the following artists: Pia Fraus, Susumu Yokota and The Advisory Circle.



The new LP "How to Live" is set to be released in September 2010. A track from the album is available to download for free here:



For Booking please contact us via this Myspace page.



Label Info



http://www.l-o-a-f.com/

http://www.myspace.com/loafrecordings



Seeland - Captured from LOAF:TV on Vimeo.