The opening song on The Barr Brothers’ new album ‘Queens of the Breakers’ (October 13/Secret City Records) starts with a drum pattern that mimics the sound of two heartbeats out of sync. It was written by Andrew Barr while holding the hand of a loved one in the hospital, where he heard two EKG machines beating slowly in and out of time with each other, occasionally aligning, but destined to...
Today and in continued support of the album ‘Sleeping Operator’, The Barr Brothers surprised fans with the immediate release of a new EP entitled ‘Alta Falls’. The band recorded 40 tracks in the process of making ’Sleeping Operator’ - 13 of these songs made it on the album and ‘Alta Falls’ unveils 5 more. Of the EP, the band said the following:
‘Sleeping Operator’ represents an immense creative output. The group, featuring brothers Brad on guitar/vocals and Andrew on drums, classical harpist Sarah Pagé, and pianist/bassist Andrès Vial, recorded 40 tracks in the process of making this record. The 13 songs on ‘Sleeping Operator’ are meditative and explosive, exploring the far reaches of folk laced with West African influences, hypnotic modernist pulsing and beyond. While the record extends into cinematic and other-worldly...
