Seafoam Walls and the trippy hybrid psych rock, jazz, funk rainbow of "Dependency"

 

"don't you show me how I gotta figure it out..."

Listening to "Dependency" by Seafoam Walls (based out of South Florida) and you feel a temperamental streak of psychedelic indie rock and neo funk jazz tones swimming underwater. Behind the shifting drums and vocal harmonies there is a floating sensation of cosmic permutations in your head or in the sky over your head. Trippy and so chill at the same time. 

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jayan Bertrand, bassist Josh Ewers, electronic drummer Josue Vargas and guitarist Dion Kerr have coined their sound, their genre as “Caribbean Jazzgaze” to describe their distilled hybridization of jazz, shoegaze, rock, hip-hop, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

[Seafoam Walls’ debut album will be released late 2021 by The Daydream Library Series, the house record label of Ecstatic Peace Library operated by Eva Prinz & Thurston Moore. This is a follow-up to the band’s first EP R-E-F-L-E-C-T, released in 2018, as well as the single “ROOT” in 2019 via Bandcamp.] 

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Seafoam Walls caught the attention of cultish music and art communities around South Florida with a soundtrack befitting of their dark tropical paradise, and have remained a Miami secret since 2016. Bandleader Jayan began his journey as a musician listening to metal and classic rock. His first formal lessons after a year of self-taught practice came from family friend and talented jazz guitarist, Bemol Telfort. Although jazz wasn’t his first love, it opened his heart to explorations of free improvisation, which led to an introduction to Dion, Josh, and Josue—all active members on South Florida’s jazz scene.

The band recently attracted international rock ‘n roll consciousness following a secret all-ages matinee in the gardens of North Miami’s Centre for Subtropical Affairs with DC hardcore photographer Susie J (Teen Idles, Minor Threat, et al.) and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore front and center. The Miami indie band completed an eight-track debut album earlier this year, mastered by Norwegian sound artist Lasse Marhaug. The album will be released on seafoam-green coloured vinyl via Daydream Library Series later this year.

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