Gwyneth Herbert & Her Band - Sea Cabinet album launch at British Vocal Jazz Festival at Le Monde: Live at Le Monde / Dirty Martini

Acclaimed singer songwriter Gwyneth Herbert has just released her new album, Sea Cabinet.

Every day, a woman walks the beach alone. She collects each discarded or washed up object she finds and takes it home, cataloguing it with the care and rigour of a scientist. These objects are placed in the Sea Cabinet, and each one sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story – the victory of a Fishguard cobbler’s wife, a jaded seaside hotel, a sunken chapel, the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King’s Shilling, the loves and the losses, the stars and the whores, the drink and the drowning and the drip, drip, drip…...

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Acclaimed singer songwriter Gwyneth Herbert has just released her new album, Sea Cabinet.

Every day, a woman walks the beach alone. She collects each discarded or washed up object she finds and takes it home, cataloguing it with the care and rigour of a scientist. These objects are placed in the Sea Cabinet, and each one sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story – the victory of a Fishguard cobbler’s wife, a jaded seaside hotel, a sunken chapel, the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King’s Shilling, the loves and the losses, the stars and the whores, the drink and the drowning and the drip, drip, drip…

Sea Cabinet is the latest project from musical adventurer Gwyneth Herbert – a beautiful, intricate exploration of the sea in all its magic, majesty and mystery, a unique multi-sensory, multi-layered song-cycle written and ripened on the Aldeburgh coast, drawing from the area’s rich history and traditions alongside stormy morning walks, midnight dips and rum-soaked lock-ins.

Working with musicians from her own world-class band, Gwyneth presents an imaginative fusion of music, film, art and storytelling that explores stories from inshore and out.

"A remarkably gifted talent" ***** - The Guardian
"Consistently engaging… Super-talented" **** - Daily Telegraph

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