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Sebastian Blanck

General Info

  • Genre: Folk Rock

    Location New York, New York, US

    Profile Views: 47249

    Last Login: 1/20/2012

    Member Since 3/13/2006

    Website www.SebastianBlanck.com

    Record Label Rare Book Room Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Alibi Coast is the first album by Sebastian Blanck – singer, songwriter and accomplished painter. It is impossible to talk about this recording without repeatedly making the connections between his music and his paintings. Ever since he left an early lineup of Black Dice ten years ago, Sebastian has made his way as a painter in New York City, all the while quietly, almost secretly, writing warm, personal pop songs away from view. That changed in 2007, when Sebastian’s brother Toby died in a drowning accident thousands of miles away. It was also the year that Sebastian’s first son, Hudson, was born. Toby had talked of starting a label to release Sebastian’s songs. Robbed of his brother and co-conspirator, Sebastian suddenly found a new urgency to writing and recording, a process he likens to being parallel to painting: a single-mindedness bordering on obsession, blending focus and surrender to quiet the external world. Within this private space he crafted a narrative of loss as well as an emotional re-imagining of Toby’s last months, a time he had kept hidden from his family. What were the forces pushing and pulling him away from the life he had and the people he loved? These questions could have been a dialogue never had, but Sebastian was left to re-create it alone. To borrow from John Berger: “Those who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.” That is the flickering duality of Alibi Coast—it is for Sebastian and his family, the personal and the public. The songs on Alibi Coast, based in the melodic lessons of the ’60s and ’70s but thoroughly contemporary, came to life with the help of co-producer Jorge Elbrecht (of the band Violens) and four women who sing with Sebastian on six songs: Caroline Polachek (of Chairlift) on “Thunder,” “Answers” and “Alibi Coast”; Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond) on “Don’t Let the Darkness Gather Me”; Olivia Mori on “Cloud Lining”; and Lia Ices on “Tumbling Skies.” The album was completed with Nicolas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room Studio in 2009 and early 2010. All of Sebastian’s roles in life — father, husband, brother and son as well as painter and songwriter — come into play on Alibi Coast. In his paintings he’s a great storyteller, crafting scenes of single moments that unfurl into the past and future. Much the same way, Alibi Coast is a record of open-source love songs, a narrative of one or more relationships moving into and through dysfunction, brushstrokes becoming penstrokes and melodies. Even though there are specific experiences within these 12 songs, anyone with a heart will recognize their own hope, yearning and love in every song. There is sadness here, but Alibi Coast is not a sad record; moment to moment and song to song, its emotion, color and shading change, like a precious stone turning over in your hand.
  • Members

    Sebastian Blanck, Management: Jonathan Galkin jgalkin @ icanmanage.org PR: Girlie Action Pam @ girlie.com kabeer @ girlie.com
  • Influences

    Neil Young, The New lost city Ramblers, Lead Belly, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Roy Orbison, Weezer, The Shins, TVPs, Gram Parsons, Wilco, Big Star, Creedence, Johny Cash, AC/DC, Elliot Smith, Pavement, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Prince, The Only Ones, The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Benji Cossa, Black Dice other stuff too.
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  • FLAMIN'

    Thanks for the add.We have recommended your album on our web. For Japanese listeners .
    http://www.flame-in.com/?p=3817

    Tokyo is waiting for you !!


    1 year ago
  • ERIcka STellmacher

    Thanks for the add.

    1 year ago
  • Cowbell Magazine

    Hey fans of Sebastian! We are a new indie-rock magazine that featured a story on Blanck in our June 2010 issue, you can read the entire thing here: http://www.cowbellmagazine.com/home/2010/7/15/at-sea.html

    Thanks! If you like what you read, friend us!

    1 year ago
  • Somerset

    I really like your sound.

    1 year ago
  • Kickingbird

    dear sebastian. your music is too good to not be far more popular than it is. whats up with that? are you going to tour or anything like that?

    1 year ago
  • ハタノワ / hatanowa

    Sebastian Blanck

    Tank you for the add!

    hatanowa

    1 year ago
  • Volcano Playground

    We thank you for your friendship. Come by anytime and press play on our cassette deck, or tell us a story.

    With as much love as we can send through a wire to a complete stranger,
    Volcano Playground

    2 years ago
  • Madara

    Hey Sebastian!!
    Thanks so much for the add..really great songs you've got here!!
    'Empire of the free' is my favorite..can't wait to hear more!!
    best wishes

    ttatj.x

    2 years ago
  • Kickingbird

    dude! the newer stuff you have up is really great too

    2 years ago
  • Jalopy

    Sebastian,
    the harmonies are beautiful
    great work
    Luke

    2 years ago
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Bio:

Alibi Coast is the first album by Sebastian Blanck – singer, songwriter and accomplished painter. It is impossible to talk about this recording without repeatedly making the connections between his music and his paintings. Ever since he left an early lineup of Black Dice ten years ago, Sebastian has made his way as a painter in New York City, all the while quietly, almost secretly, writing warm, personal pop songs away from view. That changed in 2007, when Sebastian’s brother Toby died in a drowning accident thousands of miles away. It was also the year that Sebastian’s first son, Hudson, was born. Toby had talked of starting a label to release Sebastian’s songs. Robbed of his brother and co-conspirator, Sebastian suddenly found a new urgency to writing and recording, a process he likens to being parallel to painting: a single-mindedness bordering on obsession, blending focus and surrender to quiet the external world. Within this private space he crafted a narrative of loss as well as an emotional re-imagining of Toby’s last months, a time he had kept hidden from his family. What were the forces pushing and pulling him away from the life he had and the people he loved? These questions could have been a dialogue never had, but Sebastian was left to re-create it alone. To borrow from John Berger: “Those who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.” That is the flickering duality of Alibi Coast—it is for Sebastian and his family, the personal and the public. The songs on Alibi Coast, based in the melodic lessons of the ’60s and ’70s but thoroughly contemporary, came to life with the help of co-producer Jorge Elbrecht (of the band Violens) and four women who sing with Sebastian on six songs: Caroline Polachek (of Chairlift) on “Thunder,” “Answers” and “Alibi Coast”; Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond) on “Don’t Let the Darkness Gather Me”; Olivia Mori on “Cloud Lining”; and Lia Ices on “Tumbling Skies.” The album was completed with Nicolas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room Studio in 2009 and early 2010. All of Sebastian’s roles in life — father, husband, brother and son as well as painter and songwriter — come into play on Alibi Coast. In his paintings he’s a great storyteller, crafting scenes of single moments that unfurl into the past and future. Much the same way, Alibi Coast is a record of open-source love songs, a narrative of one or more relationships moving into and through dysfunction, brushstrokes becoming penstrokes and melodies. Even though there are specific experiences within these 12 songs, anyone with a heart will recognize their own hope, yearning and love in every song. There is sadness here, but Alibi Coast is not a sad record; moment to moment and song to song, its emotion, color and shading change, like a precious stone turning over in your hand.

Member Since:

March 13, 2006

Members:

Sebastian Blanck

Influences:

Neil Young, The New lost city Ramblers, Lead Belly, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Roy Orbison, Weezer, The Shins, TVPs, Gram Parsons, Wilco, Big Star, Creedence, Johny Cash, AC/DC, Elliot Smith, Pavement, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Prince, The Only Ones, The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Benji Cossa, Black Dice other stuff too.

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Management: Jonathan Galkin jgalkin@icanmanage.org

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