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So Good

a song that celebrates a holistic rite of passage experience. Knox Patrick is a fictional character that i wrote this story about a few years ago. He was named after a friends second son.

Knox Patrick

A song about brotherhood. In those dark days a young man craves and yearns for his closest of companions. This track features a good mate Jonny Dustow on saxaphone. Caution, his tone will melt you..

Blood Brothers

An original Melissa Otto song recorded and mixed by Rhys Zacher at Spinlight Studio

Melissa Otto - Falling In Your Arms Again

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Lyrics:

Chorus:
You, you want what I can't give cause I'm not built that way
And You, you're the same, you've just been taught to live a different way

What's this emotional connection, I'm trying to understand the feel
But your indirect rejection I can't even take
I can't even take

Chorus

I am no console, Nicole
I have no console, Nicole

Chorus

I am no console, Nicole
I have no console, Nicole

Interpretation

Emotional Connection

Melissa Otto - Love

Like I Do - Billy Otto

Song composed by my brother and I. Released on The Otto Brothers debut album "Many Waters". Song about encouragement and empowerment and belief. This song has travelled internationally, especially been greatly received in highschools. 

Be Magnificent

Folk anthem which moves the heart. The song was co-written with my brother with themes about the way that we treat people. 

These Hands

Música de Melissa Otto que estará esse sábado na igreja de MOEMA - SP 

It's Alright - Melissa Otto

Open Sea (Demo Version)

song about brokenness, and the desire to be made whole. 

Arrows (demo)

A song about a husband singing to to his wife about the incredible journey of triumph, hope, scars, and integrity. I wrote this song when I fell in love with my pretty girl, Gracie. 

Floating now

The nearly finished version of the first song recorded for Billy Otto's debut album. A song about a group of people in the 1840's who were ridiculed by the thousands. They were called the Millerites. 

Miller and the Midnight Cry

Global trekker and Byron Bay-based singer-songwriter, producer and eco warrior Billy Otto offers up his latest labour of love. Let Me Loose is a regenerative war cry that appeals to the inner-child and offers up unrivalled access to a divine sense of freedom.

 Billy Otto’s sound lands somewhere between Radiohead and The Beatles. With confessional choruses, apprehending lyrics and sun-drunk vocals, Billy’s desire to stir audiences is self-evident. Finding global success over the last 4 years, Billy has toured over 30 countries, building a loyal following in Brazil, Sweden, USA, Japan and selling out shows in Australia with his raw and energetic presence.

Following the release of an eminent cover of The Cranberries’ Dreams with Kyle Lionhart and Our Song with a non-for profit collaboration for The Tambah Project, Billy Otto returns felicitously with a solo single. Crystalised by a chorus that you feel you’ve heard a thousand times before, Let Me Loose envelops you in pure nostalgia. This comforting familiarity of the 60s and 70s is felt through Otto’s warm-bodied falsetto harmonies and via a haven of George Harrison inspired hooks. 

This infectious bout of blithe was conjured amidst a moment of bitterness at the end of a relationship. Yet Otto sought to confront the indignation:

“And I just felt this dark sense of yearning for validation. I really felt resentful. But there was a calming spirit that came over me as I tuned my acoustic guitar low and just started strumming hard like I was from a 1968 Americana country rock band. The words ‘let me loose’ flowed out of my mouth and the entire song came together in the next 24 hours.”

Much like the letting go of a loved one, Let Me Loose meditates on the decoupling from the fundamentilist religion Billy Otto has felt “baked in.” Born into the Seventh Day Adventist church, Otto became a pastor and an international speaker. Otto explains, “I was so committed to my creed that in my honest zeal I lost many friends, left rock music for 10 years, judged a lot of people and found myself in a continuous loop of guilt believing that I wasn’t doing enough for the Kingdom of Heaven.”


On this latest release, Otto prays to the divinity within oneself and turns away from the shame that the toxic template of faith is so often steeped in. Hey says, “This is by no means a resignation of a former faith, but an assertion of the deepening of an existing faith. I had to lose God in order to find God.”

Weapsonised by his archetypal confessional language, Otto’s brutal imagery is dissolved in sunny chords and flamboyant keys. Let Me Loose is the breaking free from the subconscious wrestle; from a past self, a broken relationship and a belief system that no longer serves you. Painting the numbers of his message with colourful, inclusive brushstrokes, this song is ultimately a joyous conduit for togetherness and unity through music. 

In a time of global crisis let the intimate polymath that is Billy Otto offer you an alternative elixir to life. The answers for nourishment and hope are already within. Observe them, honour them and let them let you go. 

“On my ankle I’ve tied an anchor / Give me an  answer and I’ll cut myself free.”

From the flow state genesis, Jarrah-Ferris Smith (@jarrahmusic) tied up the initial writing session and from there producer Caleb Tasker (g Flip, Tuka, Lil Spacely) was the Lennon to Otto’s McCartney in his studio in Marrickville. Let Me Loose was also co-produced and mixed by Caleb Harris in Chicago. The sheer athleticism of the drums and colourful West African percussion was performed by Bobby Alu and mastered to perfection by Trent Dobson (Angus