'The North Sea' - Acoustic Version

Greetings friends and foes,

Happy to announce that the acoustic version of my track ‘The North Sea’, is now streaming!

This year has been a rough year, no doubt for everyone. It screwed with all my plans to release the next EP somewhere around now. I decided that I should put something out for you regardless.

This version of the North Sea is a raw as it comes. It is how I wrote the song and how I’ve been playing it on the street and at solo shows. It is a song about a sailor feeling guilty on a fishing boat as his crew are hauling up mythical creatures. I wrote the track it in a dark winter week back in 2017, trawling over poems and stories about such beast as the leviathan and the kraken.

I remember leaping for joy when I found the chord of F located somewhere near the end of the chorus. Well technically it's an Ab because I had the capo on the 3rd fret. :)

Here is a take I did a while ago by the sea in the Netherlands…

More recently, it has since been transformed into a hectic rock piece by the band. You can check that here…

The North Sea - Live Band Version

But back to the acoustic studio recording…. The track is a one take recording. I didn’t do any more takes on the day in the studio with Eric because we thought there was something a little special about it. Granted, there are a few imperfections in this particular take: I ease into the first note slightly wobbly, and I am not the most consistent with some guitar strums in places. But at the end of the day, we decided that I probably could get the same damn chill vibes. Maybe I should have tried, but it’s too late now haha.

Anyway, below are some snaps of in the studio on that day…

Hope you enjoy the song.

Joseph x

Ps. The cover photo for the track was an analogue snap taken on Sylt, an island in the very north of Germany.

All photos by Klara Dieckmann