Sea Goat for Symphonic Prog

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   „These songs are a reminiscence to the past. To our past, when we were the „Sea Goat“, an extremely progressive band at that time in the 70’s, playing songs often of a kind the radio would not play. A unique feature was the Sea Goat instrumentation. We were a 4-6-member band with special instruments like cello, classical guitar, recorder and zither, which all was very unusual for a rock band at that time. And often our audience had to be patient: many songs had a duration of 10 minutes or more.

Our band name „Sea Goat“ was taken from the song „ The Song Of The Sea Goat“ by Pete Sinfield in his album „Still“, released in 1973.

When we started our first gigs in 1975, the „Sea Goat“ reflected much of what was going on in the progressive landscape of music that time. We admired bands like King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Camel and other progressive bands but also songwriters like Nick Drake, Tim Buckley and even the classical writers of the ancient English foretime.

Still, copying songs of others was never an interesting option. From the very beginning we wrote our own songs in our own way, combining ideas and influences present in the heads and hearts of the members, which had come from distinct musical directions. We created our own sound, bringing together romantic harmonies, dark gothic and progressive structures with individualism in a positive way. From 1975 – 1982 „Sea Goat“ played many live-gigs in the south of Germany and split in 1982 after our musical preferences had become too diverse.

In 1980, when some of the band members already played in other bands and the Sea Goat was just before its breakup, Torsten recorded his first solo album „Those Days“ with the Sea Goat line-up and the first time with Walter Bauer, who joined the band just before the recordings of this album.

Then for long years the Sea Goat slept.
Homepage https://seagoat.de/

Sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njJYkaqF-Z4

Edited by black_diamond - November 25 2017 at 01:47