Posts Tagged ‘Milk and Honey’

BILLIE MARTEN – ” La Lune “

Posted: June 29, 2016 in MUSIC
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Billie Marten

As young songwriters go Billie Marten, who has just turned 17, continues to display remarkable depth and prowess in her craft. Her lyrics are more than just observational inkling’s into her psyche and how she understands the world around her, they are spun of the purest feeling, the richest of truths – each representing life in all its wonder and all its unpredictability.

‘La Lune’ is a song inspired by Marten’s personal experiences, the acoustic ballad delivers resonant impact and delicate reflection of family summers and a happy childhood, as depicted in the accompanying home video footage. Speaking of the video Billie says, “I found these old VHS’s at home and I remembered there was a load of footage of our family wandering around Whitby beaches and BnBs. The song’s all washy and dreamy and it instantly made me think of that. We borrowed some friends film camera for a few months but also managed to capture a lot of sentimental moments too. I love watching it.”

Artists like Billie Marten don’t come along often, her way of self-expression doesn’t just stop with her, it is a starting point for connection with others, and ‘La Lune’ is a perfect example of this.

‘La Lune’ is available on 7″ vinyl, alongside previous single ‘Milk & Honey’, through Chess Club Records and RCA.

BILLIE MARTEN – ” Milk and Honey / Bird “

Posted: May 24, 2016 in MUSIC
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Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 27 May 1999), who performs under the stage name Billie Marten, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Ripon in  Yorkshire. She first came to prominence at the age of twelve when a video on she had made of her singing attracted thousands of views. She released her first EP at the age of fifteen in 2014, and her second EP a year later. At the end of 2015 she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016 award.

This now 16-year-old Yorkshire folk-rocker Billie Marten proved last year that she’s talented beyond measure and wise beyond her years. The new song “Milk & Honey” is Marten’s latest, and it continues showing us what an amazing talented young lady . What begins as a breathy acoustic swirl blooms into a lush arrangements topped off by triumphal brass. As ever, Marten sounds vulnerable yet in complete command of her considerable powers, Billie has the ability to become a huge important singer songwriter in the mould of Laura Marling , with the delivery and vocals talent to match Daughter’s Elena.

‘Bird’ was written with Olivia Broadfield and was a last resort sort of song. We hadn’t come up with anything all day until we switched from guitars to piano and I started singing nonsense words way up high and it sort of turned into this super sad song I guess about how words can really affect people, and not for the right reasons; how you can feel kind of trapped/caught in your own space all the time even when no-one is actually with you.”