The perfect birthday gift: Breakage by Sea Change

It is about a year ago I first heard of 'Sea Change' while I was listening to the line-up of by:Larm-festival 2014. Sea Change was just one of those hidden musical gems from Scandinavia that I wanted to see live. Unfortunately during by:Larm I wasn't able to attend any of her gigs due to a full venue and a tight schedule. Therefore I had to settle at first with the first two singles ('Bursting' and 'Let's Dance') on 7"-vinyl I obtained from the actual artist behind Sea Change: Ellen A.W. Sunde.

A couple of months later I finally met Sea Change during SPOT-festival in Aarhus. A small girl with big potential. After touring extensively through Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Germany she eventually found time to record her debut-album in the fall of 2014.

In January 2015 she gave a rather intimate gig during the Eurosonic-Noorderslag-festival in Groningen.  Accompanied by a second keyboardplayer and a guitar-player/percussionist her music came to life live. Electronic dreamscapes with a solid yet dreamy voice. Afterwards I was presented a copy of her debut-album. It turned out to be rather difficult to stop playing the record. From the first song 'Wooden House' until the last song 'Raan' Sea Change manages to attract the attention. The earlier singles also found their place on the record neatly tucked in between the album tracks. It makes it an album you really can put on either repeat or infinite shuffle and enjoy the album over and over and over again. And every time you can discover a new layer of the changing sea-scape. Probably to her own surprise apart from making a beautiful album Sea Change also gives me the perfect birthday-gift. Her debut-album 'Breakage' will be released on my birthday, february 23th!

On April 11th 2015 you can discover Sea Change yourself when she's playing live in Rotterdam during the Motel Mozaique-festival!

Her record "Breakage" is released on february 23th '15 and can be bought online

Website of Sea Change