Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo - Dear River - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2017 . Emily Barker's album was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. Sweet Kind of Blue is her first full studio album since 2013's critically lauded Dear River and marks a new sound for Barker as she returns to the soul and blues influences that first inspired her to become a songwriter and musician. Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to BBC crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road. In 2015 she composed her first full feature film soundtrack for Jake Gavin's Hector, which won a Scottish BAFTA for it's lead actor, Peter Mullan. Emily Barker USA tour supporting Mary Chapin Carpenter 23rd July - 11th August 2017 Album Tracks 1. Sweet Kind of Blue 2. Sister Goodbye 3. Sunrise 4. No.5 Hurricane 5. If We Forget to Dance 6. Crazy Life 7. Over My Shoulder 8. Change 9. More 10. Underneath the Honey Moon

On her new album, Fragile as Humans - written and recorded as her time living in the UK was coming to a close - Emily Barker turns her lyrical gaze inwards. The expansive themes of her previous album A Dark Murmuration of Words are replaced by an empathetic concern for matters more personal, familial, closer to home. The ten songs take us on a deep dive into the human condition, an unflinching self-examination of grief, pain, loneliness and loss, at the same time sparkling with hope and optimism.Luke Potashnick's intricate production puts Emily's expressive voice at the very forefront, exposing it's full emotional range - vulnerable, yet assured - backed by a cinematic sonic palette provided by Richard Causon on keys, Tim Harries on bass and Tom Visser on drums, with Luke himself contributing additional guitars, effects and studio wizardry. Album Tracks 1. Whit Small We Start 2. Call It a Day 3. Wild to Be Sharing This Moment 4. Loneliness 5. Thequietway 6. Feathered Thing 7. Fragile As Humans 8. Sad Songs 9. Life Is for An Hour 10. Acisoma

Following the of the blissful and poignant singles 'Return Me' and 'The Woman Who Planted Trees', acclaimed singer-songwriter Emily Barker has announced that her forthcoming album, A Dark Murmuration of Words, will be released on September 4th on Thirty Tigers.Produced by Greg Freeman (Portico Quartet, Peter Gabriel, Amy Winehouse) and recorded with an incredible band featuring Rob Pemberton (drums, percussion, synth, backing vocals), Lukas Drinkwater (bass, guitars, backing vocals), Pete Roe (guitars, keys, backing vocals), Misha Law and Emily Hall (strings), A Dark Murmuration of Words searches for meaning in a rapidly shifting modern world. Barker's clear voice cuts through the deafening clamour of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversation to deliver a timely exploration of the grand themes of our times through the lens of what it means to return Inchhome.InchThe American writer Emily Dickinson once said that InchIf you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselvesInch - like the starlings in a murmuration, where the movement of each individual bird is related to just seven of it's closest neighbours, none of them aware of the mesmerising, fluctuating shapes being created by the flock.Throughout the ten songs that make up the album, Barker draws connections between the familial, the local, and the global a mother sings to her unborn child, asking for it's forgiveness on 'Strange Weather'; 'When Stars Cannot Be Found' explores the humbleness and comfort of the night sky when far away from home. Other highlights include the nostalgic 'Return Me', the gloriously defiant 'Machine' and the effortless album closer 'Sonogram'. Album Tracks 1. Return Me 2. Geography 3. The Woman Who Planeted Trees 4. Where Have the Sparrows Gone 5. Strange Weather 6. Machine 7. When Stars Cannot Be Found 8. Ordinary 9. Any More Goo