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Freedom Wheels is a song about the open road in a modern Country style that will feature on my upcoming debut album, Let's Join Hands released on the 30th April 2021.

All music & lyrics by Samuel Alexander Barbour

Sam Barbour - Main Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Guitar, Bass, Piano, Percussion, Banjo-Stephen Bull
Electric Guitar & Backing Vocals-Paul Roth
Produced by Stephen Bull
Mastered by Pete Maher

Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved.

Freedom Wheels

This is a song I wrote for my dear Dad, Francis Lawrenson, who passed away on the 20th January. It is a deeply personal song and the most challenging and emotional piece of music I've ever written. He was a much loved dad, grandad, husband, little brother, friend and doctor, who will be sorely missed. The song is being released as a ‘pay what you want’ download. All the money raised will be donated to St Gemmas Hospice, who did such a fantastic job of caring for my Dad in his final months. 
Download & donate here ://josephlawrenson.bandcamp.com/track/largo

Largo

Light Up The Sky

Passive

'Too Much' by esmerelda. Out Friday 28th January 2022.

Written by esmerelda (Charlotte Samady) 
Produced by BROOKFIELD (Duncan Brookfield) 
Mastered by John Greenham

Too Much

Nick Di Marzo - vocals,guitar,synth,drum beat
Eugenio Lo Bello - Bass

The entire EP "Cyber Riot" where "All I Know About" is extracted from is available on bandcamp.
https://noeisnotunique.bandcamp.com
Produced using Free and Open Source software

All I know about

Growth

Our new single ‘David Bowie’ is an unapologetic, and heartfelt tribute to one of our favourite artists. The song also serves as it’s own Bowie trivia quiz, as it name checks so many Bowie songs. How many can you identify?

Future Dinosaurs for release

David Bowie

So feel the flat line
Face down in the time it took to fly
And speak a sure sound
Lining all your words with sugared ice

Well you live and you learn with
Every painful twist and  
Wasted turn

There’s no rhyme between the 
Time it takes to fly
And the time it takes to 
Clamber back to life

So feel the flat line
Smooth and steady
Nothing left to climb 
And change as you choose
If there’s something on your mind

After all this time...

Like a fever it hits
With a cold red mist
Bent bitter in the night
Caught up in a lie
Blood-shot
Hung up
On a said so
When you’re better off

No rhyme between the 
Time it takes to fly
And the time it takes to 
Clamber back to life

So feel the flat line
Set fire now the gale has blown behind
And sparks in your eyes
Shining with the tears you’d pushed aside

Oh, you live and you learn
With every painful twist
And wasted turn

Like a fever it hits
With cold red mist
Bent bitter in the night
Caught up in a lie
Blood-shot
Holding onto a said so
When you’re better off

Flatline

I need ya

Stranger

Influenced by 80s eastern European electronic sounds, re-modeled for the 2020s.

Bast

Written and recorded in quarantine. ‘On and On’ has a dark and brooding quality that describes the human need to escape the monotony of life by relying on alcohol and sex but teaches us that true human connection is always stronger than any vice.

On and On

Canción tipo reggaetón, con una historia cotidiana de un romance ligero. Estilo reggaeton con golpes lentos y oscuros que dan una estetica underground y sombria a la canción

Single

Parchecito

Happy Sad - single

Second single from my new album'Something Good Will Come'.
Out on 21/02/2022
https://open.spotify.com/album/40t3s7UIq3pdPfjsFSQy5v?si=QPL4YBO6R92iSKuatisRKQ

A Little Bit Hurt

A day in the life of a  soul searching Londoner. On a reflective and philosophical a late night/early morning walk home through the streets of London after a heavy night out. Picking where they left off the next day, people watching on an east bound tube and unexpectedly finding love.

Walking Home

Integrated Machineisms

Integrate

A honest account of mental health with an anxious sounding beat.

Anxiety

"Reaching for the Song" is the first debut release of mine as a solo artist. The song itself is moving, personal, engaging and and described also as "uplifting' by some. It is open to interpretation with its meaning -as are any songs in my opinion as an artist and listener/fan of music generally - hoping to reach to listerners who connect with the notion that sometimes we have good intentions, try our hardest at something and yet are "falling" or feel we are failing despite our big heart's intentions.

Reaching For The Sun (Master).wav

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