Sven Gordon Williams
born. in Scotland, Edinburgh. Now living in Hamburg, Germany.
Producer, sound engineer, songwriter, composer, arrangement & programming.
Instruments: Piano, keyboards, guitars, bass, drums & percussion.
Painter (fine art) and designer.
Since 1980 he has been part of several theatre- und band projects.
For more information please contact: info(at)music-mwm.com
Ralf Walter Marquardt
born and living in Hamburg, Germany
Songwriting and lyrics.
Instruments: Vocals, guitar.
Photography for The Sea Change.
He is working with Sven Gordon Williams since 1991.
For more information please contact: info(at)music-mwm.com
History & Discography
1990 | Ralf & Sven first met on a new years eve party. |
1991 - 1999 | The Sea Change was founded in 1997. |
2000 | Their second album „Journey to the Moon“. |
2002 | Their third album „The Letter“ based on the novel "The Catastrophist" by Ronan Bennett |
2004 | Production and distribution trough MWM™ Musikproduktion and it's label ISM™ / I See 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
Future Projects
The Sea Change is allready preparing their next album. They have pre-selected a couple of novels which they would like to work on: A ecological science fiction, a pilot story taking part in the desert of North Africa and a sampling of exiting short stories...
For the latest news and further information about our future projects, please have a look at our intinerary or register for SEAWEED™ - the ISM™ newsletter.
Live Events
Today The Sea Change is basicly a studio music project. In the future The Sea Change is going to work, co-operating with other artists, on multi media projects that will show exhilarating presentations of music in combination with literature and other forms of ar.
