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Track 4 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountain range amongst other themes.

Sierra Nevada (From our Acoustic EP)

Track 3 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about growing up in the West Midlands county of England in the 1980s.

Song of the Middle Land

Track 2 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about hope, dreams, inadequate housing, the barriers between people, tin mining and, above all, spirit.

It's Spirit

Mental Breakdown a song that deals with the state of mind of a bipolar man. The song is used and referred to in Chief Physician Bengt Olausson  book Chimaeras "Hjärnspöken"

Mental Breakdown

"Insurgent" by Andru Greenwood

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Insurgent

Title track from our upcoming album which you can  buy here: https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Close To The Clouds

'Numbers' from our  album 'Close to the Clouds' which you can download in full here https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Numbers

English Soul taken from Under A Banner's second album 'Close to the Clouds'.

English Soul

Astrix - Jaadu (First session sketch)

Please keep in mind, this is a first studio session result no mix or mastering ;) ;)

Enjoy! 

Astrix - Jaadu (First session sketch)

City Alone from our album 'Close to the Clouds' played on BBC Radio

Under a Banner - City Alone

Here is the exclusive song we gave to a number of people who pledged to help release our second album 'Close to the Clouds' It is a song about existential doubts arising from a contemplation of the vast and cloudless expanse of Mediterranean skies. This song features the 10 stringed cittern and acoustic guitar.

Forever's Face

Celtic Rain is an original song by Andru Greenwood. Enjoy!

Celtic Rain

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Fickle Friends - For You (Ghost Beach Remix)

Hooked on a feeling, Heart Of Stones cover of Mark James song from 1968 with a different twist!

Produced by Simon Sigfridsson
Cover Art by Riccardo Palombo

Hooked on a feeling

Hooked On A Feeling

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Silent Whispers Feat. Michael Haze
Song Idea Written & Created By Verbal D
1st & 2nd Verse Written & Performed By Verbal D
Chorus Written & Sung By Verbal D
3rd Verse Written & Performed By Michael Haze
Mixed/Mastered By Verbal D
Beat Prod. By VRSYJNES

Verbal D 
Verse 1: 
Late nights staring at the wall thinking bout my life
 Praying to you God Jesus hoping that I'm doing right 
When I was twelve that was the first time I learned about you 
All the life lessons you taught I couldn't discern the value

Lived life in a dash, wasn't concerned about you
 Fast lanes whiplash, How I always drove around you 
I passed you up, didn't even care to see  
What you did for us, and that you even ever cared for me

I didn't like you chasing me 
Didn't want you gracing me
 I was like a poor man's debt
 Didn't want you raising me

I wasn't interested  on how you wanted change in me 
I was more integrated in science like a new laser beam
 Bionic atomic cybernetic kinetic properties 
Part Scientology my apologies honestly

Out of mind in space you see 
I was a UFO
 Under a Foreign Oppression 
By Who? I'm sure that you know

Verbal D 
Chorus: 
Calling  You've been calling me in my sleep 
With silent whispers  
Your silent whispers calling me
 I left you waiting oh Jesus 
But now I know that I need  
Silent whispers 
Your silent whispers guiding me 
 Guiding me

(Jesus Christ's Silent Whispers)
 I love you 
Be careful 
Please listen to me
 I want you to go to heaven

Verbal D
 Verse 2: 
Plugged into the world 
It was a game to me
 I saw you as the controller 
Each moment that you came to me  

I didn't want your commandments  
To ever start taming me
 I only saw your love as the leash that was suffocating me

Thought I was a beast and you were chaining me 
I wanted my release from your hugggg like it was caging me
 I know I did wrong, I thought that you were blaming me
 I didn't ever realize your sacrifice was saving me!

So now I feel dumb for pushing you away 
Morals were real numb the moments I was astray
 I pray for forgiveness every moment and chance I pray 
 The closer I'm to your light, then the darkness is turning grey

My relationship with you is making me a better person  
Better father and husband a better musical servant 
Fighting off all these demons I'm seizing them by their boots Cause I'm living life by your love and I'm rooted inside your truth!

Verbal D 
Chorus: 
Calling  
You've been calling me in my sleep
 With silent whispers 
 Your silent whispers calling me
 I left you waiting oh Jesus 
But now I know that I need  Silent whispers 
Your silent whispers guiding me 
 Guiding me

(Jesus Christ's Silent Whispers) 
I love you 
Be careful
 Please listen to me
 I want you to go to heaven

Michael Haze
Verse 3:
N/A

Verbal D
 Chorus:
 Calling  
You've been calling me in my sleep 
With silent whispers  
Your silent whispers calling me 
I left you waiting oh Jesus 
But now I know that I need  Silent whispers 
Your silent whispers guiding me  
Guiding me

(Jesus Christ's Silent Whispers) 
I love you… 

Silent Whispers Rough Draft Feat. Michael Haze (Prod. By VRSYJNES & Mixed/Mastered By Verbal D)

A song about football, television, green grass on the other side, tribalism in general and unity.  It need not necessarily have England in the title.

This Is England Now

A great tune to dance to - our take on a rousing Irish jig!!

When We Used to Dance

Grab your Tankards! Featureing gang backing vocals from Jonny Millington and Jack Rowe

First Light (A Drinking Song)

Our album track 'Steam' about our past, present and future; industry and progress and human existence in general.  'Like Steam we power on through, we're never quite sure of the place to which we're going'

Steam

The Weight of You

The One

Some Stories (radio edit) 3.38

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What follows is a review by an online music blogger who, at the time of writing, did not know the band personally:

 Under A Banner  Jan 14
 by Themistocles 
Under A Banner are a wonderful discovery. The dream of traditional England flows through the work of this Midlands outfit, blending folk-styled music with the ideals of punk – a haunting, ethereal throwback to real English folk traditions mixed with the revolutionary fight and inspiration of bands like New Model Army.

The themes differ – from the evocative and powerful “Inseperable”, gentle melodies of the guitar subtly underscored with the sombre interludes of the violin and all topped with soaring, mysterious vocals in a tale of love and loss – to the passionate and idealistic self-proclaimed drinking song: “First Light” – ‘Into the city we go, Straight through ’til we see the first light of tomorrow’. In this case, the words assisted with clanging electric guitars tinging the idealism with aggression, a call to arms, almost.

However, the real joy for me lay in “The Scream”, an impassioned cry for freedom, to break loose and live: “Now raise your head from the shadows and scream, just scream; They kept you so quiet for so long… The sound of your beautiful scream” – primacy, anger and fascination with the fundamental elements of human nature, finding joy in simplicity and the release. Combined with the rapid acoustic guitars and pulsing rhythm of the drums, along with the dark natural imagery (“the storm” and “the noise”), the song becomes an insistent repeat, a rallying cry against stagnation and repression:“We love to create to destroy” – our freedom is most important.

Under A Banner are a breath of fresh air in a music scene stagnating and dying with manufactured pop, here is a band calling back to the earliest days of musical expression and bringing it back   in a whirlwind of acoustic guitars, poeticism and passion. A band you can stomp your foot and sing along to, and to whom you want to follow forward, as they so wisely put it, with “beer, wine and song” – an admirable sentiment indeed.