The story starts not unlike many you've heard before: Jonathan Seet started writing songs from a very early age.
His attraction to voice, melody and lyric goes back to his early days but he didn't pick up the guitar until much later. At this point, he figured that pop music wasn't so bad. "I don't know what I was thinking. Hey, it was the 80's."
After a less than educational post-secondary education, Seet started putting his electrical engineering degree to no good use whatsoever and started consulting for video production houses in computer systems and networking. At one point, he even worked for Disney in Toronto as well as doing a short stint in a well-known art college in San Francisco. By night, Seet moved around from band to band in a typical Gen-X fashion until he realized that the problem wasn't the bands he was in: it was that he actually had his own voice. Seet started working on the Melatonin project about a year and a half before it was released in May 2000. "I don't know what we were thinking. Clearly, Canada doesn't need another singer/songwriter recording."
Melatonin is everything a pop album shouldn't be: dramatic, intelligent, sophisticated and well-crafted. Melatonin is also everything a pop album should be: catchy, magical, lyrical and charismatic as hell. In short, the debut work of Jonathan Seet grows on its listeners after the first pass. Melatonin is currently distributed in Canada by IndiePool.
