spend time with people who smile

A lilting guitar motif, hip-hop inspired rhythm section, and sultry, Sprechgesang vocals drive this song to the lakeside with the top down. “Listen” offers unexpected optimism through the introspection, and warm rays of sonic sunshine for dark and uncertain times.

Music: Roberts / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel

ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – backing vocals, keyboards / JON READ – backing vocals, double bass, percussion / MING NAGEL – vocals

Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).

Single "cover" art is a detail taken from True Names by Chloë Bates, designed by Lydia Wood.

Lyrics:

sun and shadow make a double
I’m the shadow, you’re the sun - it’s a conversation
dance back when we stumble
skip a beat, make our peace, find a double in the one

sun’s a hand on a wet dress
a warm chill shiver taking wing upon my spine
what do you feel when you undress?
who decides when we’re out of time?

listen
we’re falling into clouds of gold
drowning
deep in sky’s the limit hope

water dapples in the sunlight
like a herd of Appaloosa running on the lake
time: a knot getting untied
ripple loose – here’s a different truth, another shape

sun and shadow make a double
beyond two, sway becomes a rhapsody in new
I close my eyes to the bright blue
in the strobe behind my eyes, it’s a solo show, all I see is you

listen
we’re falling into clouds of gold
drowning
deep in sky’s the limit hope

listen
we’re falling through the sun into the gold
drowning
wherever there is music there is hope

listen
we’re falling through it all to the unknown
drowning
wherever there is music there is hope

Listen

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Project Blackbird consists of five UK-based musicians: vocalist Ming Nagel (originally from the USA), guitarist Alan Roberts, multi-instrumentalist Jamie Varley, drummer Eddie Dublin, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Read, former trumpet player for The Specials. This "extraordinary" band, as BBC's Tom Robinson has described them, is rich with atmospheric groove stories that draw equally upon intellect and emotion. "Imagine a party at Ronnie Scott’s," one fan suggests, "where Sade, Björk, Jeff Beck, and David Byrne meet Portishead and then go for a late night curry to exchange ideas…sublime”. The band's third full-length album, True Names, has just been released as a CD, 12" double gatefold vinyl, and digital recording via Bandcamp.

See also BLUEBIRD PARADE.

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