Towards the end of last year, Sean Taylor released The Beat Goes On, reviewed here by Mike Davies who concludes: “In the wake of the experience of the past two years, ‘The Beat Goes On’ is clearly an album Sean Taylor needed to make, and, as we emerge back into some sort of light, it is very much one we need to hear.”
The album ends on the ‘six-minute The Heart Of The Ocean, a reflective cosmic Celtic ballad love song to the sea and the ties and tides that bind us to one another’. Sean says that the song took 15 years to write, beginning as an electric guitar track and becoming a meditation on the piano.
As a meditation for piano, the song translates so well, making it all the more poignant and moving; this one lingers with you long after the final note fades.
Watch his accompanying video below, which was beautifully filmed by Shaun Dey.
Sean tells us: “I am not a religious person, but I have always felt a connection with the ocean that feels spiritual. Hours of staring into the never-ending beauty of the sea gave me this song.
“The Heart of the Ocean is a love song. Infinite and ageless. A celebration of the eternal pulse of our shared existence. Inside the rage of a storm or in gentle evening twilight, the waves guide us through the good times and bad. We cherish the memories of those lost as ‘sea and sky are one’.”
‘Spirits of the dead
Are buried in the ocean
We feel their sacred warmth
Laced inside the notion
That all the goes
Returns again someday
In the heart of the ocean.’
‘The Heart Of The Ocean’ is taken from the new Sean Taylor album ‘The Beat Goes On’ produced by Mark Hallman.
Available via https://www.seantaylorsongs.com/live-in-london/the-beat-goes-on
Photo Credit: Nick Barber