Duotone
Duotone will be playing at End Of The Road Festival 2010. Buy your tickets now!
Duotone is the name under which Barney Morse-Brown (cellist for The Imagined Village, Chris Wood’s Handmade Life and Eliza Carthy’s band) writes and performs his own contemporary acoustic songs.
Sometimes the quietest voices are those whom speak the loudest of all. This is certainly true of the immaculate, hushed multi layered, acoustic songs contained within Duotone’s acclaimed debut “Work Harder & One Day You’ll Find Her”.
A well chosen moniker, Duotone have recorded a short collection of thought provoking music set to a canvass upon which the two main ingredients featured (cello and acoustic guitar) gently meld with lap steel (BJ Cole), live loops and strings over which Morse-Brown’s sings his quietly intelligent, crafted lyrics.
Having guested on the Duotone’s album, Dorset singer-songwriter James Garrett accompanies Morse-Brown and helps to bring a deeper energy to live performances through additional vocals and percussion.
Duotone offer up beautiful flourishes of warmth in contemporary sound, but there are also nods toward England’s acoustic, minimalist classical and electronic past masters ACOUSTIC Magazine described the album as ‘conjuring up the very spirit of the 70’s Canterbury Scene’.
Coming from a musical family of seven children, Barney’s passion for performance was established early on, he was awarded a scholarship to study baroque cello at the Royal Collage of Music, but during a two-year break from the cello after university, Barney focused his attention on songwriting and teaching himself guitar. For those two years he worked extensively with other songwriters around Oxford, became more and more in demand on the session musician scene and in his spare time, began to focus on his own songwriting and performing. Now it seems that experience will not have been time wasted as “Work Harder..” and Duotone are fast becoming one of the word of mouth success stories of 2010, Duotone will be taking to the stage and festival slots again in support of the album over 2010.
