Escape Scenes, by Sea Dramas

Escape Scenes

by Sea Dramas

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1.	Daybreak 02:12	buy track
2.	Long Goodbye 03:50	buy track
3.	Nite Passengers 03:22	buy track
4.	Running Thoughts 03:31	buy track
5.	These Days 03:46	buy track
6.	Moon Breaks 04:01	buy track
7.	No Poetry 03:39	buy track
8.	Less Than Useless 03:16	buy track
9.	Sundown 03:58	buy track
10.	Turn the Tide 04:14	buy track

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"Escape Scenes" is the new album by Sea Dramas, the San Francisco Bay Area based music project led by Scott Pettersen. Originally started by Pettersen as a home recording project, Sea Dramas grew to become a full band, until 2020 changed everything and sent Pettersen back to the solace of his home studio where it all began.

The album explores the liminal space of 2020-2021, reflecting Pettersen’s experience as life turned inward and time blurred. The San Francisco Bay Area was the first metro area in the US to go into lockdown, amongst the days and nights of isolation there was ample time to reflect and to experiment. The common thread running through the songs is the concept of time itself, the changing of seasons, and the way time began to blur for all of us at that time.

“During the first year of the lockdown nights became days. Days became dreams. Dreams became sounds. Sounds became the soundtrack to looking inward and reflecting on life choices and also the banality of it all. There’s darkness, there’s sadness, there’s light and there’s joy. All bound together in the realm of that unique time. The making of the album was my particular escape scene” says Pettersen.

“There are recurring symbols like the moon, the sun, the sea, the seasons, symbols of the consistency of change and modifiers of time. Time had become a mutation of itself or perhaps I had become a mutation of myself? Escape Scenes came out through this new skewed life lens. The words were all stream of consciousness and nothing was planned out. It all sort of just revealed itself.”

Influenced by library music, dream pop, folk, and 60’s pop, Pettersen took the opportunity to start fresh and experiment with a new palette of sounds, nothing too drastic but enough to further the plot. In the absence of a drummer, there are drum samples cut to pieces and arranged to fit, less weight on string arrangements and vocal harmonies, and more electric instruments added to the mix.

Amidst all the isolation, Pettersen still managed to connect with a handful of collaborators who added their touches to the songs. Former bandmate David Brandt added percussion and bowed cymbals on “Daybreak”, while Sara Mohan played violin and sang backing vocals, and David Glasebrook (Sandy’s, Credit Electric, Sam Burton) mixed & mastered the album at his studio in Oakland, CA.

Royal Oakie Records is excited to release "Escape Scenes" on February 2nd, 2024 on CD/Cassette/Digital, available worldwide.

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released February 2, 2024

Written & Recorded by Scott Pettersen between 2020-21 in Livermore, CA
David Brandt played percussion & bowed cymbals on DayBreak in San Francisco, CA
Sara Mohan bowed violins & sang backing vocals on No Poetry in Basel, Switzerland
Mixed & Mastered by David Glasebrook in Oakland, CA
Artwork by S. Pettersen
Layout by Aaron Hubbard
All songs by Scott Pettersen © 2024 Memory Sounds Music (BMI)

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The music of San Francisco’s Sea Dramas ranges from hazy folk with pensive melodies to 60s inspired echo laden pop that melds genres and styles with swirling, dreamlike qualities.

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