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For those locked inland, the coast is a place where dreams of the journey can start, where the vision harboured over by the romantic heart can begin. The coast is the start of the blue horizon, what lays beyond is all in the mind until the first step onto the ship of realisation, and the seas of adventure and the search for consciousness.

What we search for in the coast is more than just the passport to another country, another viewpoint of the same human existence, it is the freedom that the sea or the ocean offers us, and which by time or tide we should find a way to believe we can leave the spot to which our life has become rooted, become tied to expectation and the suspension of continuation and growth.

Myrtle Beach’s Grant Nesmith’s own dreams rival that of any to whom who see the inland as one giant amusement park or sun seeker’s paradise, and who longs to see beyond the shoreline and the noise of humanity, and whether you look straight out into the vast Atlantic Ocean, or look up to the cosmic vibe of the other, more elusive salvation of space, the Dreams Of The Coast are where music is created in the eye of the artist and where distance is only a marker in how far you can travel if you dream big, if you dream well.

An album that exemplifies a modern feel of the surf, but in the hands of one who sees more than just the transitory moment, and across tracks such as Kaleidoscope, Morning, Mountain Top, the excellent final tracks of Haunt and Such A Crime, as well as the album’s title track, Dreams Of The Coast, that in depth observation, one seen through the close up lens offered by the seaside telescope and the detail of each song magnified.

An intriguing album, Dreams Of The Coast is an album of charm, of the air that surrounds you tinged with the ozone taste of life captured frame by frame.  

Grant Nesmith’s Dreams Of The Coast is out now.

Ian D. Hall