Blast Off Into the Silence of Space With Breanna Barbara's "Big Bang Blues"
Back in 2016, I was writing music reviews for Indie Band Guru and collided with the brilliant likes of Breanna Barbara. Her debut album, Mirage Dreams , had just been released and I had the privilege to capture it on the virtual page . A few weeks ago, I had the flattery of Barbara sending me her new single, and so here I am, and here you are, looping through the orbit once more. While her entrance burst down the doors with a steel-boot kick in Mirage Dreams , Barbara withdraws into a softer more subdue tone, drawing the curtains closer in “ Big Bang Blues .” With Breanna Barbara as captain, we dissolve into a warped illusional dimension, shimmering with drawling sounds, shape-shifting rhythms, melting mixtures of blue hues. Barbara’s voice emerges over a cascading clash of classical guitar and bass, her voice steady—like a rocketship coursing through the atmosphere and soaring through the uproar of space—as the instrumentals t...