So, as an opening shot…a little background.
We formed SEA in 2019 in order to provide a place for like-minded musicians with different back-stories to share ideas, record together in various combinations, as well as work on solo projects that differ from the music they were doing elsewhere.
We don’t always obey these “rules”, as there’s some obvious overlap with previous projects by some of the musicians, but by and large this general idea prevails over the works released so far.
Initially based in Deep Bay, Tasmania, we’ve since moved around the corner a few clicks to the small village of Eggs & Bacon Bay (The Bay) at the meeting of the Huon River with the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
With Bruny Island across the way, and Antarctica next stop, it’s not a bad spot to contemplate the deep-and-meaningfulls, and listen to some decent music.
Only one of us lives here at the moment, the other Tasmanian-based musicians are dug in further up the Huon. However, I don’t think they’re complaining too much.
We’ve been in the nice position of having had good connections with musicians in Munich, Germany, where both Ross Douglas and James Tucker have lived and worked. Tuck’s now based in Melbourne after spending several years as the guitarist for Melbourne-based jazz-electronica experimenters, Plankton. Douglas recorded in Munich with Raed Khashoukgi as long ago as 2007, and Raed and he have continued that collaboration, as well as combining works with Tuck, especially for Stromatilites.
And it’s Stromatilites that forms the back-bone of the entire project:
An attempt at an ongoing, collaborative endeavour that has morphed into something far more open-ended. Even we haven’t got a clue as to who, when, or what happens next…not a bad thing.
We also have good connections with musicians like Paul Hayward (Young Docteurs, Baddies, Lovegrinder) in Sydney as well as Cal Williams (Swamp Jockeys, Pekas, Horse Trank, Yothu Yindi) in Darwin, from previous lifetimes playing in famous-in-our-own-lounge-room post-punk, jazz, alternative, folk, rock and whatever else in the overwhelming soup of niche-music that exists has existed, and will continue to exist, so long as some fool picks up an instrument and strangles a sound out of it.
We’ll be updating links to some of this music and feedback would be appreciated.
One thing: We’re mates. Friends. Not adversaries….we actually love music, and anything and everything that’ll spark good music off. What we don’t love is bilious blowhards big-noting themselves at a musician’s expense…there are plenty of other places to give vent to that rubbish.
Just saying…
Oh, and here’s three links to three terrific pieces of music:
https://cattlegrid.bandcamp.com/album/sound-track-for-epic-journey
OK…blaze away.
