(click on album art or song titles to listen)
‘Posers’ is Sam RB’s first single in seven years and her debut self-produced single, recorded in her home studio during lockdown. She will be releasing a singles monthly for the next year, starting with ‘Posers’. The collection of songs (Here I Am) is being mixed and mastered by award winning audio engineer, Andrew Buckton. Future releases feature Michael Franklin-Browne on drums, Stephen Small on piano and keys and Andrew Buckton also on guitar and bass.
Posers has been described as both chill and upbeat, with a hint of grounded defiance and layers of harmonies and pared back drum and bass. A clever song that pulls the listener in. Like her other songs, it stems from a journey into the fragile dignity of humanity.
“…She still sings with a street-eye view and empathy and speaks of the fragility of people’s souls but her poetic lyrics continue to deepen and widen…” – Graham Reid (Elsewhere)
Credits:
Sam RB – vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar. Programmed – bass, synth, drums and strings.
John Mawdsley – Flugelhorn
Andrew Buckton – Mixing and mastering.
Sam RB – Single cover art
It’s all in the title. Broken, but only so far, with a suggestion that there is much to find and explore on the other side of broken. I think sometimes we can dismiss the pain as we celebrate the learning, or forget the insight as we focus purely on the distress. We can hold both. The distress in this song is the rejection we can experience from family and friends, the strange capacity we are given but do not choose, to be invisible. The insight is the opening up into wonderings beyond that kind of non-thinking and shutting down of fully human experiences.
Credits:
Written, produced and recorded by Sam RB
Sam RB – Vocals, backing vocals
Recorded remotely:
Stephen Small – Piano and keys
Michael Franklin-Browne – Drums
Andrew Buckton – Bass, electric guitar
Mixed and mastered by Andrew Buckton
Artwork by Sam RB
The mind blowing pain of disillusionment and the consequential freedom that opens up where we are no longer stricken with hope. This song stands on a mountain top with arms open wide waiting for the words to bubble up from inside. We find where Hope resides, and as a result are safe to not place our Hope in people that have no capacity to see us.
Credits:
Written, produced and recorded by Sam RB
Sam RB – Vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, programmed strings and bass.
Recorded remotely:
Stephen Small – Piano and keys
Michael Franklin-Browne – Drums
Andrew Buckton – Bass, electric guitar
Mixed and mastered by Andrew Buckton
Artwork by Sam RB
Coming October 23