Debut album A Bounce Of Grace by indie rock band Seewolf will be released on Friday, March 28. This hymn to the desolate Frisian coastal landscape is being presented during their releaseshow on Saturday March 29 2025 in the venue of Neushoorn, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands).
An analog tape recorder
On this debut album by Seewolf, a starring role is reserved for a unique fifth band member. The band independently imported and restored their analog tape recorder from the famous Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco (USA). The machine, a device used by icons such as Tom Waits, Van Morrison and Neil Young to record their albums, became an indispensable ingredient in the ongoing search for the timeless sound of music from the sixties and seventies that inspires Seewolf. After years of recording and tweaking under the cold north sea wind, Seewolf’s atmospheric debut album surely captures the warm from earlier sound of tape.
Hymn to the Frisian coastal landscape
The expansive indie rock of Seewolf is a hymn to the Frisian coastal landscape that forms and nourishes the band, and a result from the erratic interaction between the band’s personal inner world and the rough outside world, with sea water hitting the salt marshes, the robust man made dikes and the many lighthouses that shine over the vast landscape from the islands up north. Time just seems to pass a little slower here.
About Seewolf
It all started on the coastal border of the northern Dutch region, where the group isolated from our busy society and forgot time for a moment, as they slowly disappear into their music together. The passion for this quirky analog recording style can definitely be heard on Seewolf’s characteristic debut album, whereupon that cold north wind finally resonates with the warm sound of an analog tape sound.
Seewolf’s always looking for new horizons, during national club tours, towards global music convention Eurosonic or supporting Still Corners, Daryll-Ann, New Model Army and Keane’s aftershow. Last summer Seewolf formed festival line-ups nexto bands such as dEUS, Whispering Sons and Admiral Freebee, and a showcase during the Lost In Music festival in Tampere (Finland).
Seewolf is Dolf Kuiken (vocals, guitar), Willem Bijma (guitar, keys), Bram Welbedacht (bass guitar) and Joop Visser (drums).
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