Adam Wedd is a London songwriter working in acoustic folk and country, writing in a direct, story-first mode. For this single he brought in Georgina Leach for the string arrangements and performance, with Marek Deml handling guitar and vocal engineering, Ken Abel mixing, and Tom Hall mastering. Wedd has name-checked Tom Waits, Ben Folds, and Foy Vance as touchstones for the way he approaches narrative. The song itself comes from a pandemic-era Zoom call with Jan Hausbrandt and Kasia, about their relationship starting under difficult circumstances and carrying on across borders.
“for u i’ll cross the sea” opens warm, with guitar and strings already in place. The vocal comes in quickly after, carrying a pleasant, nostalgic feel with a romantic tint. The track keeps its attention on those two elements, voice and guitar, with the strings showing up from time to time to widen the frame and add that cinematic lift.
There’s no percussion here. The guitar handles the movement on its own, carrying both groove and melody while the vocal stays out front. The production is clean, leaving the song to stand on performance and arrangement. When the strings return, they do it as punctuation, not as a permanent bed, and that spacing helps the vocal land.
Wedd has described the writing as a way of putting a real love story into song, and the setup matches that intention. It plays like a straightforward romantic narrative, delivered with a warm acoustic center and occasional string swells that underline the emotional turns.
Sync fit: period drama or romance scenes, end-of-episode montage, travel and reunion sequences, any film or TV moment that needs warm acoustic guitar and strings under an upfront vocal.
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