Combining beautiful acoustic guitars, lush harmonies, rich string arrangements, quirky instruments and subtle electronic tweaks, the music of Barnaby Bright has been featured on television shows such as ER, Days of Our Lives, and PBS Roadtrip Nation. They were the grand prize winners at the prestigious New York Song Circle Contest last year.
There is a transcendent thread in their lyrics, melodies and progressions that has an intangible but visceral timelessness and truth. The world has called and Barnaby Bright has answered. Their unique brand of "lush, chamber indie-folk" is a warm and welcome wind of change.
"Rebecca’s smooth, melodic vocals are reminiscent of Karen Carpenter or Shelby Flint...and Nathan’s incorporation of his jazz background into Garfunkel-y acoustic compositions bring diverse styles together to the folk in the road: a marriage of minds and hands and music."
-The Deli Magazine
"Sounds like: that special place somewhere between the sleek adult pop of The Weepies and the more intimate harmonied splendor of The Civil Wars...classically-trained vocalist Becky has an effortless, gorgeous tone while multi-instrumentalist Nathan adds harmony and a virtual kit bag of backing sound."
- Direct Current Music
Written by "Nathan and Becky Bliss." Except Yellow Moon and February written by "Becky and Nathan Bliss.
A sublime example of a rare gem in the world of contemporary songwriting...melodic perfection.
lyrics
February
by Rebecca Bliss
Spring is blowin' in on a chilly morning breeze
A cold reminder winter soon will be a memory
Branches old and bare await their promised bloom
They paint a maze above me to illustrate my gloom
February, February reminds me that winter's behind me
And the flowers of another spring
Will come and I'll have nothing to show
Snow is all around reflecting moon's white face
He knows that it will fade when
the March sun melts it all away
February, February reminds me that winter's behind me
And the flowers of another spring
Will come and I'll have nothing to show
And every month that passes by
I feel even more alone
Guess when you said forever
You meant you were never coming home
The brittle leaves are singing me gently off to sleep
The night wind whispers secrets
She thought that she could keep
February, February reminds me that winter's behind me
And the flowers of another spring
Will come and I'll have nothing to show
credits
from Wake The Hero,
released May 21, 2009
Song by Rebecca Bliss
Arr. by Nathan Bliss
Doux et sensuel, des chansons irrésistibles menées par une voix poétiques qui nous transportent aux sommets, ceux de la gloire que mérite Ana Tivel !
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