Barney Morse-Brown: Cello / Guitar / Vocals
Jim Dvorak: Trumpet
Jim Dvorak
"In the Evening' by Duotone is available now priced: £5.99 (includes P&P)
Clicking on the image will take you to the shop at Garrett Brown Music, where this CD, plus others from the label are available. Clicking on the paypal button with take you diectly to the paypal shop.
Influences
Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Tim Buckley (and Jeff) / Paul Simon / Simon and Garfunkel / Sting / Pat Metheny / Nitin Sawhney / Neil Finn / Dave Matthews / Jude / Sarah McLachlan / Laura Viers / Nick Drake / David Kitt / Merz / Ryan Adams / and lots more...
“One of the best and hardest working cellists in Oxford” Matt Sage, Big Village
Since first picking up the cello at the age of seven, Barney has gone onto performing internationally with bands such as the Eliza Carthy Band, Chris Wood, and Folk award winning band the Imagined Village alongside Billy Bragg, Eliza and Martin Carthy and Shelia Chandra.
Barney Studied both classical and baroque cello at the Royal Collage of Music and Drama in Cardiff and went onto win a scholarship to study baroque cello performance at the Royal Collage of Music with Jennifer Ward-Clarke.
During his time in London, Barney also ventured into song writing and teaching himself guitar, which led to forming a band made up of other collage students and recorded his debut album at the Royal Collage studios with Toni Castells (Momo Project).
This change of direction continued after leaving collage and since 2007, been performing under the name ‘Duotone’ using live loops combining both the cello and guitar producing carefully crafted songs with a clever use of timing and dynamics, creating the sound of anything from a single voice and guitar, to carefully layered guitars backed by a full string ensemble.
Duotone has gone onto perform ‘Katherine’s Wheel’, an original composition live on tour with the Imagined Village around the UK and is currently supporting the Eliza Carthy Band on her tour of the UK and Ireland.
Barney Morse-Brown is also a full time member of the Kate Garrett Band who recently released their new EP 'King of the Birds' to fantastic reviews and a packed house at the Garrett Brown Music launch earlier this year.
On February 21st Kate Garrett and Barney Morse-Brown launched their joint musical venture, Garrett Brown Music, in Oxford. At the time of the launch, Kate had been battling with breast cancer for some 18 months. Setting up this new business was very close to her heart and getting the Garret Brown Music show on the road while she was still able to work became her aim. The launch evening was a very special event and brought her much joy and satisfaction. Sadly, after this her condition worsened significantly and she passed away in Dorset, her home county, on 22nd May.
GBM was set up as an online home for up to date news and info on Kate and Barney's diverse work across the music world. Since Kate's death, some things have of course had to change. Information about Kate's work can still be found on the site, and her CDs are still for sale. You can still find out about Barney's current projects, look at both Kate and Barney's past work and browse their shop, or book Barney for an event that you are involved in…. Both Kate and Barney grew up in families of craftspeople, from cabinet and instrument makers, to artists and milliners. The musical skills you will read about here continue this tradition. They both crafted music for many years and Barney aims to continue to provide the quality they both aspired to in all that he offers.
Hey hows it going. Hope is well. I was wondering if you would like to have a free album? You can get it at http://www.megaupload.com/?f=3NNQTYF1 I would love to know what you think
I know this isn’t a personalised flyer, or message :( .. but we do thank you for being our friend in such turbulent times.. do keep in touch and we’ll make the friendship stronger. The Follys
Hi Barney, There's a couple of live loop pedal tracks on my site now, 'A Man Walks into a Bar' and 'I Don't Give a F'ck What You Did on Your Gap Year'. Thought you'd be interested! Size
thanks for the add....loving the CD - come to Stoke to inspire my cellists please.....we have an ensemble called Superspikes.....electric cellos.....much fun!!!! :)
Hello Barns, I hope you guys are good. Some shameless promotion. Please come to my private view on the 10th of Oct ’08 at 7:30. Live music by the Blood choir.
A selection of photographic works inspired by local musicians Starts Saturday 11th of October 2008 and runs for two weeks. St. James Wine Vaults, 10 St. James Street, Bath.
It's a place for bands to explain how they book shows. Comes along with news on web technologies, recording gizmos as well as music industry trends and anecdotes.
Our last topic to date is on a band touring and powering their gear with bicycles !
