"Music has been a creative and therapeutic force all my life, I wrote my first song aged 7, which I actually still remember, I typed it into my Amstrad PC, I remember it was snowing outside, I remember feeling that grown up sense of accomplishment. It was titled 'Someday'. My childhood was shadowed with a sense of imperfection, how I could never make things exactly as I wanted, even now I struggle to find that satisfaction.
My mother bought me my first keyboard when I was 14, I immediately spent hours learning to play every song I had on tape or CD, like a child starved for stimulation suddenly being let out into the nature of the world. Music seemed to nurture the roots of my being, this was what I had been waiting for.
Growing up my music became like '3D glasses' are to a movie, to enable me to assimilate the emotional landscape of my life, my experiences, to turn them into a part of me, to create the whole. Nothing bypassed my music, soon nothing could get around, through the music came the life I choose to accept.
Sebastian Vale "Real Love" Sebastin Vale "Stop & Listen"
Even in sleep I write, and awaken with a verse, a chorus, or just a melody, sometimes I play back the clumsily recorded file on my mobile in the morning and find an indiscernible remnant of a song, and sometimes I find the perfection I seek in the conscious hours. Most of the time I see my writing like the stumbling learning of an infant with a new language, I see nothing perfect or great, just tangible progress.
I was the lead singer in a few bands during college, the most notable being 'Phoenix', we came close to being managed by Martin Packen of Warner Brothers, but our musicianship had a lot to be desired, we released a single under an independent record label, nothing happened and thousands of CD`s remained in boxes. I wrote all the songs. The band ended when I left to live in Switzerland, here I continued to record, becoming familiar with music software and teaching my self to produce. I worked with rhythm and sounds and textures, and began slowly building the bridge between the music as it feels in my soul, and the music that resonates into the world. I struggle to reconcile, music is art, and art is always just a glimpse of what is.
Recently I entered 'Open Mic UK', I reached the final and performed a complex rhythmic track title 'No Horizons', my choice of song was consistent with my sense that I needed to explore my musical direction in order to condense and focus my talents. The winner strummed an acoustic guitar to a simple song. I left the contest enthused with the sense that I needed to keep simplicity in my production and performance and to reinforce the backbone of the song writing. I received strong recognition from the judges I talked to and concrete ideas to move forward as an artist as well as a song writer. I have reached the point in my music now where the many branches of creativity need to be clumped together and somehow solidified into one strong stem, to break through the crowded overgrowth of mainstream commercial music. I am extremely excited to be under Iconic Artist Management to achieve this goal. Watch this space
My musical influences over the years have evolved from the likes of Elton John, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, and Old School Michael Jackson to name a few. More recently I've been listening to Rufus Wainwright, Black-eyed Peas and some of the cutting edge R'nB coming out of the states right now. I like cross over music that can appeal to many genres simultaneously, anything that can influence me when I'm trying to think outside the box working on my own material."