I like to make music on my keyboard and computer in my free time. I'm just starting out and don't really know what I'm doing yet. Let me know if you have any comments / criticisms for my songs :)

I didn’t pick up guitar until I was about 16-17 years old. Even then, I only knew chords, until the age of 20 when i learned all about finger-picking and harmonics on a 12 string.

When I was 21, I discovered Kaki King in my sleep (long story.) I was inspired by her style and opened up a completely new way of playing, and so I took up “Unorthodox” playing, as she would call it. I learned from listening to Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, the bassist from Primus, and Tom Morello, and eventually came to my own way of blending everything i learned and writing my own songs.

By the time I was 22, I have almost completely forgotten how to sight read music. I stopped initially, because when you play off a sheet, things become too technical and there is virtually no room to improvise. I learned that playing by ear allowed me to feel the emotions the song expressed, and apply it to my own music.

I then decided i wasn’t challenged enough, so I paid extreme attention to the bass lines from Korn, Ryan Adams, and any other band that was different from most.

23 years old, now inspired by the ambience and the way of the railroad, More and more songs crank out of my head, showing small resemblances of my influences.

And if you are into my music, be sure to check me out on the myspace bandwagon at Http://www.myspace.com/nickkropelnicki to learn more about me

History & Discography


1990 Ralf & Sven first met on a new years eve party.
Their songwriting co-operation started in spring

1991 - 1999 The Sea Change was founded in 1997.
Their first album �The Sea Change 1" was recorded in 1998.
On a trip through Scotland they produced their first video for the song �All the time�.

2000 Their second album �Journey to the Moon�.

2002 Their third album �The Letter� based on the novel "The Catastrophist" by Ronan Bennett

2004 They founded their own production company MWM� and their own label - ISM� - i sea music� - LC 13826

2006 The present Album �Moby Dick - featuring Lew Soloff - Songs & Paintings�.

Concept

Music & Literature > Multi Media

The name The Sea Change was taken from the title of a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
"The sea is not only the source of life itself and therefore - naturally - the origin of all music, it is elementary to us. Whoever for once has been sitting at a beach, looking at the horizon and listening to the waves, certainly understands. The sea has a hypnotic and somehow cleanse effect. It is the place, where we can find peace and strength".

Early in their co-operation The Sea Change had started to work on a fusion of music and literature. It began with the opening lyrics �Western breeze� on their first album - 1 - (based on the novel Lady of the Lake, 1810 by Sir Walter Scott), and went on with �The Sound� (based on a poem by Julian Schnabel) which one can find on the second album - Journey to the Moon. �The Letter� was the third album and the first based on a novel (The Catastrophist, by Ronan Bennett). The present project catches up with a classic peace of american literature - Moby Dick - by Herman Melville. For this production Sven also got back to his artistic roots and put the songs into paint.

The compositions are timeless, original but still catchy. Once you started, you tent to listen through the whole album. Photography, video and other forms of art are indispensable parts of The Sea Change projects.

"Songwriting is a literary pursuit"

Sting

My name is Gregory Oliver. The acronym G.O. was given to me by friends just because of my name, but it stands for the "go" in Matthew 28:19. That's the mission, that's my goal. Enjoy!

I am an 18-year-old aspiring musician from Warrenton, Virginia with a much-varied background in music. I play everything from Appalachian folk to classic rock, and am always trying to expand my musical horizons. I play guitar, bass, drums, banjo and dulcimer, though I spend most of my efforts on improving my guitar skills, both with acoustic and, as of late, electric models. My ultimate goal is to be genuinely original in my work, and to be at the forefront of a truly original musical movement.

Lyrically, I am influenced by a very broad range of prose and poetic literature, from classical works to those of Shakespeare to contemporary prose and verse. I plan to study the classics in university to further my knowledge of classical thought and languages, and hopefully better my English songwriting. I consider Paul Simon as my role model as a musical lyricist, though I am again influenced by the songwriting of a very diverse group of artists and eras.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my stuff as I continue to record. Please please leave comments to let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions – I’m always open to critisism and certainly to new ideas. You can also contact me at coyfish4@gmail.com if you have any comments or simply want to chat about music – my ears are wide open :)

Peace :)

Coy

this collection is about programming and building audio brick by brick to create a structure of sounds, some organic, some digital, layers upon layers, they blend into each other

Johnny Broadway is a Canadian singer-songwriter originally from Windsor, Ontario who finds his home these days in the heart of the prairies, Winnipeg, Manitoba. His upcoming album Room 213 explores the lives of people on the road, coming or going, searching for and finding their way home.

Room 213 includes eleven stories that all happen in or around one motel room in Grand Forks, North Dakota, including a cleaning maid, an affair, a runaway, a Christmas visit, a special phone call, a road trip, car troubles, a criminal running from the law, and the law catching up with him.

We are just a few friends that jam together. We have no plans of going public. Sorry.

I've made music for a long time, starting on piano, then cell, then guitar, then drums, then saxophone, then, then... well, to say the least, I've failed some instruments and learned others. However, I don't look at my music with the perspective of mastering it, but more about saying something with it. At this point in my life, I think I'd go through withdrawal if I had somehow lost the ability to *make* music.

I make music related to the visual and experiential art projects I'm working on. It is a multi-media creative endeavor to understand, define, and explore the world within myself and around me. I use many layered tracks in order to display an internal need for organization of the chaos around us, as well as to display all the different influences and voices surrounding us as a society. I try to mix technology with live performance instruments as a way of voicing the effects of technology on our society - by displaying our dependencies on it, but also showing the way we have integrated it in order to improve the world around us. I perform all instruments, programming, engineering, voices, mixing and production.