The Black Atlantic

The Black Atlantic is a Netherlands based acoustic pop band formed around singer and songwriter Geert van der Velde, former frontman for American metalcore group Shai Hulud. The Black Atlantic released their debut album Reverence for Fallen Trees digitally for free (worldwide) in August 2009. It has since been downloaded close to 100,000 times via various torrent websites, the band's own website and it's record label website. The band's core consists of Geert van der Velde (lead vocals/guitar/ukelele/keys/percussion), Kim Janssen (vocals/guitar/ukelele/keys/percussion), Matthijs Herder (vocals/keys), and Simon van der Heide (vocals/drums). There have been around ten rotating members in the band, most notably, Megan Hoffman (vocals/flute/glockenspiel/melodica/percussion) and Stef Thoen (percussion/piano/vocals). The Black Atlantic started as a project of van der Velde in his off time from his philosophy studies. Gradually the project turned more serious after van der Velde recorded his first song (a Valentine’s gift) to his then girlfriend and now wife. He eventually abandoned his studies to focus full-time on the band, and the rest is history. This is "Heirloom" off of their debut album.

http://www.theblackatlantic.com/

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