Anna Tivel continues her tradition of intimate, dreamy vocals on her new single ‘Bluebird’. This is the second single from her sixth studio album. The video features performing in silhouette in front of found footage of protestors and ballet dancers. The song features some gentle psychedelic touches with swelling chords and distorted echoey vocals. The video was shot and edited by Jayden Becker.
Tivel reflects on creating the song, “’Bluebird’ is a song about hope, about the beautifully flawed, fundamentally human way we reach toward something better – forward and backward all at once, chaotic, painful, profound. I wrote it after a summer of unrest, isolation, and thick wildfire smoke. My city, the country, the world – it all felt alarmingly silent and utterly deafening. History so close you could taste it. The future an unknown expanse lit up in eternal change”.
The full album is available now from Portland, OR label Fluff and Gravy Records.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
