ALBUM II

This 2nd record from Somebody Called Me Sebastian is a search for truth. A pared-down search for 'Who am I?' When everything falls away and dreams shatter, when you fall and feel the bottom, when you want to break out and are held back, what is left then? 'Who am I?'

The end of a relationship in a year where covid closed the stages led Sebastian to the English countryside. In a landscape full of gnarled oaks and robins, the first new songs trickled in. Songs full of hope about the gold that can be found on any black soil. The rest of the songs were written in a Belgian yurt in the middle of nature. This also became the recording studio. And just as life asks you at difficult moments to come full into the now, nature left its sounds in the songs at unpredictable moments.

In Nashville, the circle closed. Together with Brian Macdonald, Sebastiaan is finishing the recordings of "In Motion" into a pure, melodic record full of melancholic sounds and hopeful atmospheres.
This album will be released in the spring of 2024.

CO-PRODUCTION

Producer: Brain MacDonald from Nashville (Judah & The Lion,Victor Mucho)

Mixer: Jo Francken(Novastar, Het Zesde Metaal, Admiraal reebee, Tamino, Zaz,...)
Thad Kopec from Nashville
Coach: Jan Viggria -Farrm- Hasselt (The Guru Guru,Viggria)
Mastering: Gert Van Hoof (Cochlea Mastering)
Artwork: Linne Van Spaendonk

TIMING:

August: mixing
September: Mastering & artwork
November: first single
January: second single
March: Release + release tour

SEBASTIAAN SIMOENS

I completed my vocal studies at PXL-Music in 2013 (Belgium) with Le Temps Qui Reste as my graduation project, after which I headed to NY to continue writing my life on a new white sheet. Nine months later, I returned with a backpack full of songs to continue making my first solo album in my attic home studio.
As a resident at MoMeNT Tongeren, I turned this into a performance with stories and images throughout the songs, after which I learned the craft of performing in living rooms and cafes with listening audiences. I was also allowed to take the stage at the AINSI in Maastricht and at several Belgian festivals including Dranouter, Suikerrock and the Stadsmuzikantenfestival. You can find all the other, at least equally beautiful places on this playlist.

In 2018, together with writer Ine Verhaert and visual artist Jasper De Ridder, I founded Collectief Ablatief with whom we made, among other things, "Puzzle Me.' A book with images and CD (STROOM).