High Places
High Places is an American duo formed in in May 2006 by multi-instrumentali… Read Full Bio ↴High Places is an American duo formed in in May 2006 by multi-instrumentalist Robert L. Barber (sometimes known as Robbie Barber) and vocalist Mary Pearson.
It began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert L. Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and instrumentation. High Places’ songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's homemade beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Since their inception in 2006 in Brooklyn, High Places have honed their "exquisite corpse" style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging one another's expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from “Head Spins” to “Sandy Feat” from “Greeting the Light” to “Granola” the band has revealed more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive percussion.
Their album "Original Colors" was released in 2011.
It began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert L. Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and instrumentation. High Places’ songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's homemade beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Since their inception in 2006 in Brooklyn, High Places have honed their "exquisite corpse" style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging one another's expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from “Head Spins” to “Sandy Feat” from “Greeting the Light” to “Granola” the band has revealed more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive percussion.
Their album "Original Colors" was released in 2011.
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High Places Lyrics
A Field Guide My head was filled with wordless thoughts Perched on a litt…
Altos Lugares I believe that you saw the destined man The one that’s…
Banana Slugs/Cosmonaut I looked up, saw a cloud Floating by without a sound Ban…
Banksia You see .tree .order ... .nothing is thing Something far …
Canary Our space is limited It's getting crowded The river has dr…
Freaked Flight Birds in their nests with their mothers Prepare for their M…
From Stardust to Sentience From small speck of stardust to wondrously sentient Revolvin…
Gold Coin The ocean is your god-self The sun is your god-self God is…
Golden All along you were here despite your absence Wrote a song…
Greeting the Light It's a challenge of the Spirit and Might To go inside…
Head Spins When we sat on the floor I was floored I was floored The…
Jump In If you never take the first step You cannot go too…
Namer In those eighteen years and nine months I've been living…
On Giving Up though I have tried so many times so many times it's hard to…
Sandy Feat Things got pretty dark there It looked like we were stuck …
Shared Islands "Day One of film shoot L.A. sky - white with slight…
Sonora Now the rain stops falling … the sun appears Makes me stop…
The Storm The storm carved out a ditch Which we filled with seeds…
The Tree With the Lights in It On and off and on and off, as light pours…
Universe It's been going on more than a week now I can't…
Vision's The First... The picture's clear but it's going black And you're not alw…