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.
The genre is discribed best as "storyteller" - the band concept is basicly the extraction of the main aspects of a novell into singable lyrics and song structures...