Album and tours for the supergroup with members of Rem and others
Peter Buck, REM guitarist, Barrett Martin, Battery of Screaming Trees and Mad Season, the polystrumenter Alain Johannes (who played with Eleven, Queens of the Stone Age, Pj Harvey and many others), the percussionist Lisette Garcia (Barrett Martin Group) and bassist Abbey Blackwell (Alvvays): They are the musicians who have combined forces to form a new supergroup, baptized drinks The Sea. The new group, which brings together members of some of the largest and most important rock bands of the 90s and 2000 has announced its first concerts in the United Kingdom and in Europe for November and December.
In view of the live appointments, the supergroup also made it known that it will release two albums, the first was released yesterday – September 19 – and the second will arrive on October 3. The band therefore stressed that during the first concerts it will propose unpublished songs next to “selected classics” taken from their careers.
“The drinks The Sea are a bit the band in which we all wanted to play as we grew up,” explained Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees in a note: “When we were young we did all the new alternative music, even inventing some our style, and all this happened in the 90s. Now, by more mature musicians who know each other and have collaborated in several projects for years, that we find the most interesting. In this new adventure it is our focus on the writing of the songs. He continued: “In reality we have already started working on the third album. So, for this first tour in Europe, in the United States and South America, we will play most of these new songs, together with some loved pieces of our bands (Rem, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, etc.). In addition, we will play accompanied by splendid films projected behind us, made by director Tad Fettig. Tad. All over the world, showing incredible natural landscapes and people from all over the planet: images that visually intertwine the same emotions that transmit our music, namely that the earth and people are intimately connected and it is all much more beautiful than the strong powers want to make us believe. Everything with the feet on the ground.
