Written and produced by Jean-Paul Grobben & Serge Dusault
Vocals and lyrics by Jean-Paul Grobben
Guitars by Paul Davids

Mastered by Exoplanet (Oscar van der Knaap)

Making-of video: http://www.vimeo.com/21997094

Budapest

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Sed Project has always been at the vanguard of the underground electronic music scene. Through the words and music of Jean-Paul Grobben and Serge Dusault, the Dutch duo has formed a formidable partnership. Reprising their production relationship for the first time since 2014's full-length album, "The End", on Proton Music, Sed Project returns with the brand-new "Endurance" album for Particles.

Typically thematic and resonant in the themes that thread their way through the world today, the dual narrative that runs through "Endurance", encapsulates Grobben and Dusault's current worldview. With the initial aim to carry on where their debut offering left off, their tongue-in-cheek reference to the Mayan prophecy that foretold "The End" of the world in 2012, initial visions for "Endurance" introduced a "new world" with nostalgia and "memories of better times". What transpired was a second theme that hits at the very heart of 2017; a snapshot of a modern world that has been dominated by Syrian war, diaspora and refugee flight.

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Harbour

My Dear Friend

Endurance

Home Ground

Exiled

Written by Serge Dusault and produced by Jean-Paul Grobben
Vocals and lyrics by Door Visser

Mastered by Exoplanet (Oscar van der Knaap)

Live video: https://vimeo.com/35534201

Desire You (ft. Door Visser)

Liner notes by James Warren

An entirely new theatre of dreams is represented in “Scandinavia”. Using the principles of onomatopoeia to describe individual pieces, the whole album is tied together within its Nordic theme. With both Grobben and Dusault well-acquainted with Iceland and Sweden the album is an eight-track collection of sonic masterpieces, rooted in a seamless meld of organic and synthesised. The droplet-like melodies of “Waterfront” open the floodgates on the raw bassline energy and crisp drum patterns of “Northern Light” while the subtle, rolling cadence of “Highlands” and “Glacial Lake” are the perfect rhythmic counterpart to rich melodic flow.

Intricate acoustic drums are to the fore in “Skogafoss” as a gated chord progression provides contrast for sumptuous melodic ice floe to emerge from a sea of sound. A strong breakbeat pattern yields magnificent results in “New Grass”, rising and falling with ease as counterpoint melodies are entwined within, while the stripped back nature of “Glacier” allows complex rhythmic rolls to dominate before the cut away to reveal a cinematic soundscape of strings and soaring melody. Closing out proceedings, “Peninsula” has a nostalgic edge as melancholy chord progressions and evocative melodic tropes provide the perfect final act.

With the cool, calm sounds of “Scandinavia” to the fore, Sed Project have entered a brave new world.

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Scandinavia

Peninsula

Glacial Lake

Glacier

New Grass

Skogafoss

Highlands

Spectacular Northern Light

Waterfront

Liner notes by James Warren

Coming together for a very special collaborative project, the combined talents of Sed Project’s Jean-Paul Grobben and Serge Dusault join forces with YouTube guitar star, Paul Davids. After the success of their third “Scandinavia” studio album in 2018, Davids asked Grobben and Dusault to marry their magical production techniques to his extraordinary guitar. 

The resultant collaboration finds “Phoenix” rising from a flame ignited by three talented Dutch masters. Building effortlessly, plucked riffs and rippling piano motifs gradually extend into elegant sequences. Melodic tropes sit against shuffling percussive rolls, heavy beat and open-filtered synth lines before Davids’ guitar erupts in the final movement as distorted licks rise like flames in a blur of mesmerising sound.

Ever regenerating, the “Phoenix” rises higher still, burning bright in incandescent light.

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Phoenix (feat. Paul Davids)

Written and produced by Jean-Paul Grobben & Serge Dusault
Vocals and lyrics by Jean-Paul Grobben
Guitars by Paul Davids

Mastered by Exoplanet (Oscar van der Knaap)

The End

Our single "Phoenix" featuring Paul Davids is out on all major online platforms.
Our third album, Scandinavia, is out now on all major online platforms.

Read the full liner notes by James Warren at www.sedproject.com

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