Kathleen Farris - Now Or Later

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/far…ve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES".

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.

...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decsdQqT6vA

Farris - Beautiful Mind

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/far…ve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES".

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.

...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvogB8aAuUI

...read our lyrics

"Downtown"

When will this life take me
To the sky to the bright light
When will this life take me
Inside
Up High

Like all the people down below
We cry we strive we are alive
Like all the people way up high
We move we shake we die

In this world that twists and turns
Ups, down, bruises, burns.  In this world that tests your strength

A space in time will mend
and open up its arms
A space in time will come to
begin again
A space in time will heed the space
the gap will slide out of the way
A space in time is yours to make

A ground on ground
The master of this earth we have found
Up high in time, but now
DOWNTOWN

When will this life take me to the sky to the bright light
When will this life take me
inside up high
Like all the people of this earth
we hope, we pray, we grow, we change
Like all the people of the sky
we love, we live
on both sides

(Chorus repeat)

All around with spirits on the ground

All around with lights in your mind
All around with spirits on the ground.
Up high in time but now
DOWNTOWN

Farris - Downtown

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/far…ve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES".

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.


...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5zK43bZDk


...read our lyrics

"We Are Creatures"

It took a little time, to walk away from our shadows
Cause in this life we get one try, to go where others
will not travel

We are creatures in the bottom of this never ending sea
we are lovers living and laughing, you and me

And if you feel the pulse, and go where others will not dare
It’s in your face, it’s in your grace, 
it’s everywhere

Under a low lying sky, we sit on this ground
but not close to it
We’ve got one foot off the ground, the other is bound
but one is floating

And if you feel the pulse,and go where others do not dare
it’s in your face, it’s in your grace, 
it’s everywhere

We are stuck here for our lifetime
might as well get used to it
look up and say hi

No way to go higher into the sun
no way to go higher, to the clouds we came from
we are creatures in the bottom of someone else’s sea
you and me

we are creatures in the bottom, 
of someone else’s sea
we’re not buoyant in these bodies
you and me, you and me
look up and say hi

Farris - We Are Creatures

ROCKET BLASTER

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (http://www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/farris-is-de-nieuwste-aanwinst-voor-de-alternatieve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES". 

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.

...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62smhX2Jr8U

...read our lyrics

"Let's Begin Again"

Everybody look around you
did you see that man passing by
no time to look left or right
what’s the point if you don’t see the sky

Everybody look around you
do you see the world passing by
it’s moving so fast round us
what’s the point if we don’t see the sky
if we don’t see the sky

Only one way in
only one way out
open your heart friend
let the sun mend
and if you have a doubt
take a look around
it will all make sense
when we begin again

Everybody wake up this morning
shed the skin that holds you back
clean the shelves inside your mind
lean back and notice the sky

Everybody look around you
do you see the world passing by
it’s moving so fast round us
what’s the point if we don’t see the sky
if we don’t see the sky

Only one way in
only one way out
open your heart friend
let the sun mend
and if you have a doubt
take a look around it will all make sense
when we begin again

Farris - Let's Begin Again

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/far…ve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES".

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.

...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PpvPz3Mas

...read our lyrics

"Time Slows"

Feet in hot sand underneath your toes
imagine a cool wind that whips your hair as it blows
a blue sky bows overhead
like an umbrella of your dreams
waiting for the rains to come
and cool you, cool you with its breeze

Time slows with pain
Speeds with rain
Slows with sunlight
Time slows with grief
speeds with relief
slows with sunlight

In your hand sits a pedal
And a raindrop, crystal eye
In your hand a pink umbrella
you stole from the sky
And if your tears will fall
Dripping crystal mines
Take that pedal from your hand
and simply replace your eye

A little girl set by a stream
waitin for a wishing well
she threw in sticks and leaves and stones
to turn that stream to gold
or into purple halos
atop angels here in earth
to make them really really small
so she could put them, put them, put them
in her purse

Farris - Time Slows

FARRIS' latest review says they are the next thing for the alternative rock scene in Holland. (www.thebluesalone.nl/2013/03/10/far…ve-rock-scene/). This review is based on their album release, "WE ARE CREATURES".

FARRIS melds diverging influences of its band members including blues, latin samba, hard rock, new wave, and mellow acoustic sounds while maintaining the importance of lyrics and highlighting Kathleen’s unique, compelling voice.

FARRIS’ release, “WE ARE CREATURES” came out March 9, 2013. Four of the twelve songs directly speak about political issues including, “Chased to Heaven” a gospel and reggae inspired song about the Sudanese Lost Boys escaping civil war and “The Dam” a full-on rock song which creates a metaphor between the US and a dam blocking the flow of a river. “Tu Eres mi Vida” is a world music-driven raucous ride with horns and multiple percussion sections blending many languages. Listen carefully to the remaining songs which touch on predestination, buddhism, love, death, and reincarnation including the alternative rock title-track, “We are creatures”, highlighting a philosophy that Kathleen holds dear - that we are all united under one sky.

...check our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0CFzQ5nZs

...read our lyrics

"The Dam"

In the last hours we’ve built a dam
And blocked the flow with our own hands
Trying to shape people to do our right
Trying to shake people to be our right

In the last hours over twenty years
We planned and plotted and instilled fears
Trying to shape people to do our right
Trying to shake people to be our right

Now the dam is in place and to my disgrace
It serves to coerce and manipulate
To gather people of any shade, strip them their heart, their home, their pride, their name.
And all for what, but democracy
A cry, a plea all will be 

Free, Free, Free

But as the Dam gets bigger, 
they think they’re making strides
But the people they’re stoppin from living their own flow
Have hatred brewing and it continues to grow
And in the end hypocrisy will lose, 
And I tell you honey, that Dam will be let loose.
For the same folks who claim to bring the free life, are dictators in their own right

Now the dam is in place and to my disgrace
It serves to coerce and manipulate
To gather people of any shade, strip them their heart, their home, their pride, their name.
And all for what, but democracy
A cry, a plea all will be 

And all for what,
And all for what
And all for what but democracy , a cry , all will be, all will be all will be

“Free, Free” 

Now the dam is in place and to my disgrace
It serves to coerce and manipulate
To gather people of any shade, strip them their heart, their home, their pride, their name.
And all for what, but democracy
A cry, a plea all will be

And that thing will come crashing down
no one knows when, but straight to the ground
and we’ll all be running , left, right, you and me, yet we contributed to this great hypocrisy

So the time has come it might all change
it could be we can break free of the chains
before destruction is guaranteed
time to change this history

Farris - The Dam

FARRIS IS LIKE A FIST IN YOUR FACE… 
YOU MUST SURRENDER TO
THE MUSIC GRABS YOU, RIPS OFF YOUR CLOTHES, HANDS YOU A SET OF WINGS,  AND THEN THROWS YOU OUT OF AN AIRPLANE.  

This musical sense of urgency collides with pointed and poetically precise lyrics leaving your reaching and breathless. 

THEY ARE CHASING SOMETHING MAGICAL 

WHICH may BE LOST 

IF THEY DON’T REACH OUT AND GRAB IT 

AND thrust IT IN YOUR FACE. 

FARRIS is the inspiration, the wisdom, and the understanding that comes from miles of movement. The face of FARRIS, singer-songwriter Kathleen Farris, formed the band in the Netherlands in 2011, after arriving from Kenya where she had lived and worked as an infectious disease researcher for the US government.  

She first fine-tuned her craft of lyrical storytelling through writing poetry and absorbing the country-music infused influences of her Texas upbringing. She left Texas after High School and rubbed elbows with high level governement officials by day in Washington DC and performed on street corners as a busker by night.  This led to her famed 40 40 40 tour where she toured 40 different street corners in Washington DC for 40 days in a row.  Fans followed her 2 hour nightly show from corner to corner with  amplifier, microphone. guitar, and CDs to sell in tow.

She went on to live in Kenya, in Mali, in Portugal, in England, and in France before landing in the Netherlands. 

FARRIS IS A BAND DRIVEN BY  PURPOSEFUL INTENTION 
TO INNERVATE THE MUSIC WITH THE ESSENCE OF CHANGE, AND MAKE SURE IT IS DAMN MAINSTREAM SO PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY HEAR IT!
TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK 

TO QUESTION 

society and our role within it

OUR ACTIONS, OURSELVES.

To INSPIRE OTHERS TO BE HOPEFUL, TO ACT. 

FARRIS released a self-titled album, KATHLEEN FARRIS, in 2005 

and the album WE ARE CREATURES IN 2013

 Their long-awaited album ROCKET BLASTER will be released in 2021 following the release of the single of the same name late 2020.

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