aaamusic | On 12, Feb 2011

Thunder/Black Sanded Beach is the beautiful two track release from American singer/songwriter and painter Sebastian Blanck.

The first track is ‘Thunder’ taken from Sebastian’s album Alibi Coast released last year. ‘Thunder’ appears to effort capture every pure human emotion painting them in sounds, through the soft voice of Sebastian himself, the acoustic instrumental as well as the angelic voice provided by ‘Chairlift’s’ Caroline Polachek. Like ‘Thunder’ itself the track breaks through a still horizon with force accompanied by natural beauty of rolling wave like sound clouds, simply taking your breath away and leaving you with the soft print of heartfelt human emotion on all your senses.

‘Black Sanded Beach’ is similar in its ability to provoke emotion and paint with sound, but this time relates to deeper emotion as the song retells the near death experience of Sebastian and his wife. Not only is it reflected through the beautiful lyrics of song itself but as through the arrangement of the track from the beautiful Siren like female vocals to the flowing guitar and floating vocals.

Both tracks are similar yet different and remarkable in there own right. Both provoke deep human emotion and allow you to stop, think, reflect and wander you inner self. Brilliantly beautiful in every way.

Author: Khadija Pandor