The Artificial Sea
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|Releasing their second album, Unwritten, The Artificial Sea is a collaboration between two impressive American artists, Kevin C. Smith and Alina Simone. With this collaboration comes a sense of old unified with new, where the meshing of jazz, electronic and pop is as seductive as it is captivating. The artists have constructed a delicately deep story through ambient soundscapes, haunting vocals and the resonance of beautiful string instruments.
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