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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"

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Location: Colorado
Web: www.nuevisionjazz.com
Music: 6 songs
About the Composer:

Raised on cornbread, greens and fried chicken, this country boy has come full circle. Fargo, Arkansas is home but now he calls Colorado his back home spot. After living in Hawaii again from 1999 to 2003, and basically calling it quits with his music career, he began writing again in 2003 thanks in part to a birthday party early that year in Hawaii at the home of one of his long time friends and musician buddies.The focus now is on his own genre of music appropriately named, NueVision Jazz Jazz/Nuevision Jazz Orchestral. Classically trained on oboe and credited with being one of the youngest members and the first black member of The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, E.L. retired from ALL performing including [playing saxes and keyboards] back in 1991 after nearly 30 years and now enjoys his time with his wife Debra. Between 1976-1991 E.L. was Bandleader/Manager of several Top 40/R&B Bands performing in the U.S., Hawaii, Guam, The Phillipines, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay Cuba and Panama. His bands have opened for Roy Ayers, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Bobby Blue Bland, Syl Johnson, Lou Rawls, Chaka Kahn, The Guess Who, and numerous other groups during the 70s & 80s. He has come out of retirement to play saxes on his compositions. The jazz he writes is not mainstream jazz, but is a combination of many aspects of the jazz genre with a unique twist. The music moves the soul and enlightens the mind.
This is his passion!
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University of Arkansas @ Little Rock, Ar.
Berklee College of Music Boston,Mass.

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Location: Philippines
Web: www.paulgalang.net
Music: 29 songs
Paul Galang is a multi-awarded, nationalist Filipino folksinger-songwriter known for his songs on human rights, social justice and peace.

Emerging as one of the powerful voices in the mid-1970s to protest against the Marcos dictatorship, Paul Galang is one of the pioneering Filipino musicians to establish the culture of Filipino folksinging as a means of elevating people’s political consciousness and in expressing discontent against the injustices of the martial law era alongside artists Heber Bartolome, Freddie Aguilar, Jess Santiago, Lolita Carbon, Coritha , among others.

His more popular protest song compositions include Kailan ka pa Lalaya Bayan, an ode to the Filipino people’s never ending quest for freedom; Pinggan, a satirical presentation on the realities of the Filipino-American relationship throughout history; and Maong, a protest ballad dedicated to comrades in the Philippine social movement who dedicated their lives in advancing the struggle for freedom and social justice.

In the 1980s, he served as the Chairperson of the Buklurang Musikero Para sa Bayan and the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Musikong Pilipino (PAKOMPIL), both artists’ collectives committed to promoting the welfare of Filipino artists engaged in peace and social justice advocacies.

He has also toured and performed in various countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan as an artist actively involved in various international solidarity activities for justice and peace.

In 1990, his song entitled “Mapayapang Daigdig” (released under BMG records) was awarded Best Folk Song at the Pinoy Music Awards of the FM radio station LA 105.9. It was also translated in Japanese with the title “Heiwa Na Sekai” and is considered as one of the anthems of the Japanese peace movement.

At present, Paul Galang serves as the Executive Director of Abakadang Kayumanggi Community Development Foundation (A.K.C.D.F.), a community-based non-government organization that has been providing education, nutrition and livelihood assistance to children of underemployed Filipino workers and their families who are living in the urban poor communities of Caloocan and Malabon cities for the past 20 years.

Mr. Galang is also the President of the Area-Based Standards Network (ABSNET) CAMANAVA Cluster of the Department of Social Welfare and Development; and currently serves as the Director of the Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club of Malabon Highlands (RCMH).

He plays monthly gigs at the My Bros. Mustache Music Bar and Restaurant and the Conspiracy Garden Cafe in Quezon City.

Paul Galang is an accomplished folksinger, composer, poet, music producer, arranger, recording and concert artist, human rights activist and peace advocate respected by peers both in the music industry and the social movement here and abroad. He would like to be remembered simply as “an artist serving the people... whose songs are meant not for those who greed for money and power; but for those people who help develop other people’s lives, eradicate poverty, and work towards the creation of a just, peaceful and humane world for all...”.