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 fierce and fiery title track, Wake the Hero shows that Barnaby Bright, masters of the delicate beat, can also rock.
lyrics
Wake the Hero
by Nathan Bliss
Here's a good seat, two together
On the concrete by the river
Tell a story, sing a legend
Mine is boring, take possession
I for one would like to hear
Tell me a story
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Just you and me, just you and me
Bear a secret
Share completely
Swear to keep it
Wear it deeply
Shake the lumber
Wake the Hero
Make the number
Lead the zero
I for one would like to hear
Tell me a story
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Just you and me, just you and me
Here's a good seat
Two together
On the concrete by the river
See the night sink
Into morning
Better not think, tell a story
I for one would like to hear
Tell me a story
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Upon a time in a place
Just you and me, just you and me
credits
from Wake The Hero,
released May 21, 2009
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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Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
very musical and emotive 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 and appeals to the complicated lives we all live trying to be all that we can be. This is in my favourite songs list all month at home on constant replay 💖 neptuneninja