Photo Credit: Anthony Mulcahy
THE MORNING SEA describes its sound as Gotham Americana - a combination of folk, rock and blues with stylized New York City grit.
Songwriter / frontman, Adam Cohen, started The Morning Sea as a solo project in 2013, and it quickly flourished into a full-fledged band with the help of a talented crew of New York City musicians. The band has since gone on to release four albums - STRANGE CAPTIVE (2014), MAL DE MER (2016), DESTRUCTION SONGS (2018), and HALF KEYS (2019) - multiple singles and videos, and have played countless shows at New York City’s most prominent venues. Their records have received tremendous praise from numerous publications, and the lead single from HALF KEYS, “Listen Love”, received two 2019 Independent Music Awards for best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song and Best Love Song.
HALF KEYS, released November 1, 2019, was recorded in band member and multi-instrumentalist Sonny Ratcliff’s Brooklyn bedroom, using entirely acoustic instruments and mostly first or second takes. What started as a simple project of recording Adam Cohen’s latest songs with just his voice and a rusting national resonator guitar became a lush and heart-wrenching album that tells a story of love lost and dealing with the aftermath.
Current Members: Adam Cohen, Sonny Ratcliff, Georgia Weber, Jacob Fjeldheim.
Past Members: Andrew Nesbitt, Tony Long, Matt Nelson, Josh Madoff.
Past and Current Collaborators: Andy Baldwin, Bobby McCullough, Kelly Wolfgramm, Matt Arbeiter, Dave “Smoota” Smith.