The Bergamot's new album "Far Out" released on Sept. 30th - the day before they opened for the Barenaked Ladies at the Morris 100 Fest in South Bend, IN.

The Bergamot - Far Out

The Bergamot's new record MAYFLIES. Available now worldwide via AWAL.

The Bergamot - Mayflies

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The Bergamot's new album "Far Out" set to be release on Sept. 30th - the day before they open for the Barenaked Ladies at the Morris 100 Fest in South Bend, IN

Make It Last

Floating

Follow Me

Medusa

Burns

Where The Wind Blows

Paradise

Far Out

Neon Sunrise

Roll It Up Mastered 07 - 12 - 2023 88k - 24bit

Roll It Up

The Bergamot releases it's first single 'Forget About Tomorrow' from the upcoming record 'Tones'. 

Forget About Tomorrow

The Bergamot releases their debut LIVE album recorded on October 22nd, 2016 at the historic The Morris Performing Arts Center (2,600 seats) in South Bend, IN. The album marks the bands first ever live album and 6th full length album. The album was mixed by Nathaniel Paul and mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24:96 in Germany. Live albums are a rare breed and this album is no exception when it comes to diffuculty and production. The band has spent over 1 year preparing, rehearsing, performing, mixing, reviewing, and mastering this album - a true masterpiece. This album also corresponds with a full length live album and playlist available on YouTube. The album comes out on July 28th, 2017.

12 IMAGINE (JOHN LENNON COVER)

Relationships are hard. These 2 high school sweethearts from Indiana have sonically plotted out a melody drenched tune for how to survive turmoil and uncertainty. "P.D.R" reflects on the duo's journey through the music industry, recent public snub by Hollywood, and overall rocky patch in a weathered relationship.

The song also marks a major milestone for The Bergamot working with world-renowned mixer and producer Matt Wiggins to mix the track (Glass Animals, London Grammar, The Horrors).

"P.D.R." is a forward-looking contemporary interpretation of The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" stacked harmonies, strung out verb drenched Strats, and thick textured harpsichord and strings to round out this lush production. The hook is emphatic and grabbing with a distant synth hooking your ear at first listen.

The song is based on Playa del Rey, a romantic beach town nestled on the south-western tip of Los Angeles where the couple found themselves in their 312,000 mile old "Unity Car" with the window down and the rain falling on both of them. 

"Life just seemed so confusing at that particular point in time - it was all just hitting us as we sat in silence taking in the swells of the Pacific Ocean on our left and the arriving international flights at LGA over our heads." reflects Hoff. "Those planes lit up like fireballs falling from the sky."

"What were we doing there? Why had we come to L.A.? Our car was on the brink - WE were on the brink" relays Speece. "We put everything we had into that track... and everything WE DIDN'T!"

The song weaves the listener through the idea of "Holding on" in the beginning as being held back, yet reprieves with a optimistic turn by the bridge "With everything uncertain, I think we will be O.K." to bring the track back to a positive light and somehow reign in the dream track to inspire and strike an optimistic tone. 

The guitar swells, the dreamy vocals and harmonies - this piece would be a visual accompaniment to Claude Monet's "Rough Sea". The song attempts to create a sonic seascape of lyrical imagery and instrumental precision. 

PLAYA DEL REY (PDR)
Lyrics Written by Nathaniel Paul © 2017
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Down on the coastline
Airplanes and street signs
West of the 405
While we were waiting
I wish you'd just say it
Those words 
Tied up in your head

We were hopeless
The windows were open
Watching the planes fly by
The clouds were rolling
The salty air from the ocean
Those lights
Burning up in the sky

I'm worried
About the words you said
About the words you said
About the words you said

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

I feel like I have waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

We were alone now
When we let our guards down
Taught ourselves to be free
The thin winter moonlight
Our hands held tight
Our lives drift off to sea

I'm worried
About the words you said
About the words you said
About the words you said

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

With everything uncertain
I think we will be O.K. 

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

P.D.R.

Producer/Mixer: Matt Wiggins (Adele, Glass Animals, London Grammar)

The Bergamot's full-length album coming Summer 2019.

Lyrics:

INTRO 

VERSE I
Well there I lie awake with you
It's nothing new
Like an old cartoon
Flickering on the T.V.

Through a periscope 
I see our lives
Through my eyes
I know 
We'll be alright 
We'll be alright

CHORUS
Because I have been waiting on you
All my life
All my life
I've been frustrated and blue
I never knew
I never knew
How much I love
You
How much I love 
You

VERSE II 
The three words I head onto
I love you 
Please see me through
When the world is getting me down

And when the summer suns 
Beems down on us
Broken up
With all our rust 
We'll let go
We'll let go

BRIDGE
There will come a time
Looking down the line
Truth will be hard to find
But don't be afraid
Our troubles they won't 
Stay the same
We'll be O.K.

CHORUS
Because I have been waiting on you
All my life
All my life
I've been frustrated and blue
I never knew
I never knew
How much I love
You
How much I love 
You

Because I have been waiting on you
All my life
All my life
I've been frustrated and blue
I never knew
I never knew
How much I love
You
How much I love 
You

OUT

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Periscope

LYRICS ///

No I won't no I won't fuel the pain
Smoke filled cabins in my head
I feel as if I have no hope no way out of here
But I won't no I won't fuel the pain

Then I hear

No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire

The moan I hear from another
Worried I will show my fear
I feel a crawling cover a great mistake

No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire

Can lift me up and lay me down
No I won't no I won't be afraid
These holograms in my head
All I need is inside of me
There is a way out then I hear

A ceasefire
A ceasefire
A ceasefire
A ceasefire

Yeah, oh, yeah 

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As depression rates continue to spike at an alarming rate among millennials/teens, "Ceasefire" explores the slow meander and rhythmic repetitiveness of a creeping depression. The lyrics poignantly illuminate depression and psychological warfare under the influences of a modern technopoly. The final lyrics break the listener away into a euphoric space with a cacophony of harmonies, synths, and guitar riffs lifting the listener up to a finale.

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Ceasefire

ONE MILE ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/HC3nPnkov6o

"One Mile" is a song inspired by a 50,000-mile journey. A journey across a divided country fraught with depression, gun violence, and addiction. The first mile taught us as much as the 49,999 that followed. That unity starts within your community. After traveling around the country on The Unity Collective and having people sign our tour bus with a message of unity, this song was the call to action. An anthem of hope in a difficult time. 

"Together we rise, Apart we fall." The walls we have built in this world, are just the manifestation of the walls in our own hearts. After mounting a wildly successful Emmy Award-winning journey to 50 States in 2016 filming the groups documentary "State of the Unity", "One Mile" is a musical memoir for the film (fall 2019) and upcoming album (fall 2019). Written by Nathaniel Paul Hoff and produced and engineered by Matt Wiggins (Glass Animals, Adele, London Grammar) (UK). The song will be accompanied by a fully animated cartoon music video premiere TBA.

The song's signature comes at 2:51, when the music breaks with a euphoric drop. The culmination of this drop is pushed with 2 drum recordings (split into stereo) at the conclusion of this section, a groundbreaking approach to drum recording.

In a time of scarred by division and fear, The Bergamot has composed a track that hopes to restore a sense of empathy in the human heart. As the U.S. staggers towards the election cycle of 2020, the band brings a message and music video that helps to lay the groundwork for their upcoming documentary "The State of the Unity" filmed in all 50 states, over 50,000 miles, in 2016. 4 years later the band returns with the lyrics "The world can seem so strange, When your only One Mile away" illustrates the main theme that the band learned from their "Unity Collective" journey to all 50 States, that unity starts within one mile of where you live. In your mind, in your home, on your street, in your neighborhood, in your city - unity starts with "u". We have built these walls of division and hate and we have the ability to tear them down. The band hopes to stir in the listeners a sense of hope and optimism as we enter into another election cycle.

It is vital that bands and other professions do their part to tear down the walls of fear and hate that we have built over the last 4 years. The single "One Mile" hopes to champion a sense of empathy and hope for the future. One mile at a time.

Tour Info: Headlining dates at Wanderlust Music Festival 2019, Summer US tour, and Fall UK & EU tour.

ONE MILE /// LYRICS:

In a cafe

Up in Brooklyn

There are two people

Falling in love

Up the street there

About a mile away

There are two people

Shooting up

Now the world

Can seem so strange

When your only

One Mile away

But we must

Stand tall

Together we rise

Apart we fall

We left Seattle

With some pictures

And just a little

Spare change

We got to Portland

There were some crooks there

Who broke in to our car

And stole it away

Now the world

Can seem so strange

When your only

One Mile away

But we must

Stand tall

Together we rise

Apart we fall

Fall asleep my dear

With the winds of Santa Fe

I run my fingers through your hair

As the curtains sway

One mile down

They are pulling guns and raids

On our brothers

Who don't look the same

Now the world

Can seem so strange

When your only

One Mile away

But we must

Stand tall

Together we rise

Apart we fall

Because the world's

A different place

One Mile away

One Mile away

Because the world's

A different place

One Mile away

One Mile away

But we must

Stand tall

Together we rise

Apart we fall

Thanks!

One Mile

"The Bergamot's Lush 'L.A.' Song and Video Is a Feast for the Ears and Eyes"
-PARADE Magazine [Preimere]

The Bergamot's New Single - L.A. Out everywhere on June 28th.

So many great songs have been written about heading out west, not so many about leaving.

Somewhere between the lavish lives of the successful tycoon and the struggling artist, is the everyday story of someone packing up. Quietly moving on to the next phase of life. Getting away from the lure of dreams and distant hopes, and into the harsh reality: what comes after the dreams silently slip away? L.A. attempts to take a look at moving on with a dimly veiled eye of reality - with an ever persisting hope "I WANT to believe in you" but alas here we are.

The distorted howls call out to the listener, darkening an already bleak scenario. Almost as if a dream, being pulled from the light, falls into the depths of one's memories. The music lurches on with a tribal beating - simple yet pushing - as the kick drum distorts the mix. The fleet-fingered acoustic guitars wind in an element of natural beauty, yet arriving at an uncertain resolve. The song contains what we have come to know as our sonic signature - a harmonious cacophony of layered vocals over a minimal mix. Resolving into a tailspin of sounds including feedback looped pianos through guitar amps, guitars through synths, taking the listener to it's final resting spot as the harmonies begin their final chant "Goodbye L.A." - "I want to believe in you" - "Goodbye L.A." - "I want to believe in you". 

The song "L.A." was originally written in the key of C, but in the studio was dropped to D to help deliver more of a crooning timbre for the lead vocals. Overall, I hope the song speaks to the emotion of moving on. Whether it be love - or dreams - this song attempts to illustrate an emotional perspective where you have to let go, but hopefully, are not lost. 

LYRICS

She left L.A. with a song in her head
Elle left L.A. and off she went
She left for the city with the stars in her eyes
Elle left L.A. and she doesn't know why
So she's moving on
By the time I write this song
She'll be gone

The kids all cried 'cuz they don't understand
Elle left L.A. this was never the plan
She's hoping for a life living out there on the road
She was hoping for something new 'cuz she was growing old
So she's moving on
By the time I write this song
She'll be gone

Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.

She packed her bags and she wrote this note
Now she's gone
Now she's gone
She made her way while I wrote this song
Now she's gone
Now she's gone

Oh
Oh
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.
I want to believe in you
Goodbye L.A.
I want to believe in you
Goodbye L.A.
Goodbye L.A.

L.A.

New single "Mayflies" debuts July 25th on EARMILK.

"I want to love you for the lives of a Million Mayflies"

~ Nathaniel Paul

"40 percent of global insect species are threatened with extinction. The four most affected aquatic insect populations, which the study describes as "imperiled," are caddisflies, mayflies, stoneflies and dragon and damselflies." (Hatch Magazine)

Not a word is spoken. Industries lumber on, cars speed away, and water pollution skyrockets - mayflies die. This vital part of the world's natural ecosystem collapses, today, right now. As the world debates climate change, industrialization, and pollution, the world is collapsing on itself right in front of us, silently. This highly vulnerable insect needs an anthem, we need an anthem, an awakening. "Mayflies" attempts to shift a difficult conversation from what could happen - TO WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING.

A mayfly lives for only one day. It could live longer as an aquatic nymph in the water, rather it launches out for a 24-hour life that includes building 2 sets of adult wings, procreating, and passing away. This is the perfect vessel to convey a love song. It is not how long you have on earth, but rather what you do with your time on earth. We must love. We must hope for a better world. If we give that up, what are we left with?

Mayfly’s lifecycle is one of the most fascinating and fleeting stories in the natural world. However, mayflies are under siege. "A recent study found that the abundance of flying insects has plunged by 75% in 25 years, prompting warnings that the world is “on course for ecological Armageddon”, with profound impacts on human society." -The Guardian

At a show in Arkansas, an entomologist sought me out after the performance. I was not fully aware of what an entomologist does (Entomologist: a person who studies or is an expert in the branch of zoology concerned with insects.) after being educated on the term, I was prepared for the worst. "What did I screw up?" I said... He responded exuberantly "No... You don't understand. You need to travel the world with this song. Go to every bug conference in every country. Sing it for everyone. No one is listening. What is happening is catastrophic! This song NEEDS to become the anthem of the mayfly!"

28,835 generations of mayflies can occur during the lifespan of one human being. Is it possible that evolution could occur within one life on earth? The truth is, evolution could be happening right in front of our eyes.

How better to convey this emotion through a love song. Whether you care for one of the most vulnerable life forms on our planet or not - mayflies will get you to tap your foot. And sometimes that is just good enough.

I offer to you now "Mayflies" or what some refer to lovingly as "The Anthem of the Mayfly".

Enjoy.

Both Records LLC
Distrobution AWAL

Mayflies

The opening lines of BONES are the first words I told my brother after checking out of rehab for the 2nd time. My family had to intervene in a suicide attempt on Christmas Day 2016. 3 months later, we sat together on the banks of Lake Michigan as he first listened to BONES. With tears streaming down his face he said, "I want to send this song to all my friends at rehab - to everyone in rehab." My brother is alive to this day. BONES speaks the truth with love; we can't just run from our burdens. World Suicide Prevention Day Release 2019. 

"It's hard to carry a burden
If you don't have any bones
You can't just fly away
If your wings are made of
Stone"

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It's hard to carry a burden
If you don't have any bones
You can't just fly away
If your wings are made
Of stone

Waiting can be fun
If you can live forever
Take your place in line
How far there is no
Measure

This life
That we live
It's all that we take
All that we give

'Cuz I don't believe that it's true
Just do as I say
But not as I do
Because I want to believe in you
The promise you made
I'm holding on to

It's hard to carry a burden
If you don't have any bones

Compare the empires to angels
In all we know and love
There is a beauty in the unknown
As lightning strikes from above 

This life
That we live
It's all that we take
All that we give

'Cuz I don't believe that it's true
Just do as I say
But not as I do
Because I want to believe in you
The promise you made
I'm holding on to

'Cuz I don't believe that it's true
Just do as I say
But not as I do
Because I want to believe in you
The promise you made
I'm holding on to

It's hard 
To carry a burden
Yeah, it's hard 
To carry a burden
I said it's hard
To carry a burden
Said it's hard 
To carry a burden 

If you don't have any bones
If you don't have any bones
If you don't have any bones

Bones

On the heels of the hottest summer on record and a rapidly disintegrating planet, "Make It Last" is a call to action. The lyrics call upon the listener to make the first steps in the process of solving the climate crisis: to start with action. The euphoric chorus lifts the listener up and encourages people to save the planet that we live on. Never before has action been needed as much as this moment in time. We must act together to help try and save the world around us.

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Mixed by Matt Wiggins (Adele, Glass Animals, Florence) and Mastered by Ted Jensen (Kaleo, I Prevail) 

TOWER RECORDS Premier October 14th.

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Our planet is changing at a rate faster than experts have predicted. 

"Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist says." Prof Sir David King says he's been scared by the number of extreme events, and he called for the UK to advance its climate targets by 10 years."
-BBC News

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"Make It Last" comes at this challenging issue from a unique perspective. Addressing the world from a place of empathy and concern. This song invites the listener into the process of change rather than condemning or depressing the listener. The sonic signature of the song comes at 2:17 when Nathaniel Paul and Matt worked together to create a sonic eruption - reminding the listener of the most important lyrics of the song

"We have to make this last"

A full press release is available for this song upon request. 
Thanks for taking the time to review/share our music!

LYRICS

VERSE I
All these paths in life
Begin as a mystery
Like those books up on the shelf
You want to read
But I found
That when you read all the pages 
You will find
A story can set you free

PRECHORUS
Now

CHORUS
I feel like I can start again
I’m feeling with my heart again
There’s so much beauty in this world
Just laying around

VERSE II
All these shells 
That have washed up on the beach
They are full of history
For you and me
Just about
Five million years ago they fell
To the bottom of the deep
Blue sea

PRE CHORUS
It turns me on

CHORUS
I feel like I can start again
I’m feeling with my heart again
There is so much beauty in this world
Just laying around

I feel like I can start again
I’m feeling with my heart again
There is so much beauty in this world
Just laying around

BRIDGE
And for such a long time
The seabreeze and the sunshine
Have been taking care of me
Because this world 
Is all we have
The birds and the grass
We’ve got to make this last
We’ve got to make this last

CHORUS
I feel like I can start again
I’m feeling with my heart again
There is so much beauty in this world
Just laying around
 
Now
I feel like I can start again
I’m feeling with my heart again
There is so much beauty in this world
Just laying around

THE BERGAMOT

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