Jessie Coutts / Beach

Beach is a 5 piece original band. It was formed in 1998 by it’s two principal

songwriters, Jessie Coutts and Mathurin Molgat. Beach is melodic pop on smooth

grooves with a South Pacific twist.

Beach performed as showcase artists at the 2000 NXNE Music Festival in

Toronto and were featured performers at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards in

New Zealand. Beach have performed in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

The first beach album was recorded at Metalworks, I Level and Kensington

Sound Studios in Toronto and at Revolver Studios in New Zealand. It was mixed

at Revolver and York Street in NZ. It was recorded to 2” analogue, ADAT and

Pro Tools and mixed to 1/2” tape. Digital editing was done by Blair Robb at

Audio Alchemy in Toronto and by L.Stu Young in New Zealand. The album was

produced by Iain McNally and beach and engineered by L.Stu Young and Iain

McNally.

The new beach album will be released soon...

The beach sound is warm and smooth, lyrically intelligent grooves with a Pacific

flavour.

Web Site - www.beachnz.com

Vocals - Jessie Coutts

Guitar- Mathurin Molgat

Kona - Don Rooke

Bass - Paul Pasmore

Drums / perc - Randy Cooke

      Brooding, dream-like and sophisticated, Beach, with it’s

      songwriting team of Jessie Coutts and Mathurin Molgat,

      shimmers with musical maturity. Coutts’ voice - the CDs

      centerpiece - sits on a bed of heavily processed guitars,

      keyboards and percussion at times blending to become

      another instrument. “Janey” features a hypnotic vocal refrain

      which gets under the skin. Unusual but effective song

      structures and loping, sometimes brooding grooves

      reminiscent of UK band Portishead.        - Kevin Thomas- Mountain Scene