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This 'n' That

by Bare Jams

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1.
Wasson 01:27
2.
Night's Play 04:36
I’ve felt this before that familiar song, nights play I remember the sound and I’m missing that rush through me Then I look in your eyes, That’s when I realise I can’t resist to take the risk I must admit, I can’t resist to take the risk Then we don’t need to speak just go with the breeze Your tripped out and I’m coming up hard I never had the chance to say, let’s do it again x2 As we move through the night straight to the light, new day Now the morning’s returned and the ashes have burned their blue the flames Then I look in your eyes, that’s when I realise I can’t resist to take the risk I must admit, I can’t resist to take the risk. When we don’t need to speak just go with the breeze Your tripped out and I’m coming up hard I never had the chance to say let’s do it again x2 Now we’re falling asleep, drifting softly through dream If we happen to wake, don’t hesitate you do you I’ll do me and I’ll see you when the night ends, infectious but sweet been such a pleasure to meet ya just tying up the loose ends Your tripped out and I’m coming up hard I never had the chance to say let’s do it again X2 Your tripped out and I’m coming up hard I never had the chance to say
3.
Ebbs & Flows 04:16
I watched the little boat sail into stormy waters I tried, as hard as I can to grab attention but all the smoking signals, stood alone and it’s not enough I can see the lighthouse right there shining trying to get me somewhere, but I don’t know where it leads maybe it’s a good thing not to dwell on my destinations, just see where it goes Keep riding them ebbs & flows feel them move, beneath your feet There’s talk of getting old but there’s nothing, no there’s nothing I can do to make you younger I can only make you stronger Keep riding them ebbs and flows, Ebbs and flows I sensed a rapid change in her behaviour Port side is looking grim, and starboards saviours we’ll sail across the ocean when seas are troubled, Just to find our place Moon’s creating high tides, low tides cruise across the water line Let’s see where we go I’m comfortable in this stage of my state we're in this together, lets just hope we float Keep riding them ebbs & flows Feel them move, beneath your feet There’s talk of getting old but there’s nothing, no there’s nothing I can do to make you younger I can only make you stronger Keep riding them ebbs and flows, Ebbs and flows Exploring your mind like the sea in a submarine, sweeping my steps as I go and I’m taking my time, just to soak up the scenery this is the place that I roam x2 Keep riding them ebbs & flows Feel them move, beneath your feet There’s talk of getting old but there’s nothing, no there’s nothing I can do to make you younger I can only make you stronger Keep riding them ebbs and flows
4.
Sonder 04:16
It’s not over ‘til your over me, leave me naked on the floor I discover you unravel me, this unordinary air Yet the sun still shines and the moon still moves, It’s guiding me to you Deep sonder, watching people be All our complex lives, trailing different lines surrounding me We wonder, wade into the sea Away from the chatter and into your slipstream While the sun still shines, and the lazy moon is laid up next to you We are never alone yet we seem solitary, bypass the eyes of many reach out in times of panic, realise we’re not mechanic Feel it in your heart. Deep black waters, to blue bays. If we just breathe between the lines we’ll come to find that the bad days could be the right way to start a new grown perspective X2 When the sun don’t shine and if the moon won’t move though I see your face there’s only you and when the sun don’t shine and if the moon won't move ‘least I see your face. There’s only you Yet the sun still shines and the moon still moves and I see your face lying next to mine
5.
Wasting Time 04:11
When your shattered by the moment and you got glass, under your nails got you scratching like a mad dog at the rickety walls that you have before you that silent speed of time is yours to fill not mine, and who am I to drag you into my own But I've ooh just got to take it easy oh i promise we’ll find oh if we just take it easy, everything falls into line I don’t wanna waste your time, just want to see you smile girl I'm not gonna waste your time just want to see you smile x2 Never gonna get this chance again my my we both know it’s a wonderful world So much more to do so much more to see, who am I now to disagree Ooh just got to take it easy oh i promise we’ll find oh if we just take it easy, everything falls into line I don’t wanna waste your time, just want to see you smile girl I'm not gonna waste your time just want to see you smile x2 I see our future together is better, its harmony I’ll march as many miles as the beat needs to burn, won’t retreat till it’s heard doesn't mean we cant leave suddenly Ooh just got to take it easy oh i promise we’ll find oh if we just take it easy, everything falls into line I don’t wanna waste your time, just want to see you smile girl I'm not gonna waste your time just want to see you smile x2
6.
Tiptoe down the corridors, brush past and dust of better days, the memories then leave without a trace Capture like the camera eye, flick through and shake down the memories in this Old satisfaction and I feel it in my bones Old attraction Movies behind to tired eyes, I trick myself back in the seat again while those silent serenades play As the rain falls so heavy now right now I'm dry and ever grateful in this Old satisfaction and I feel it in my bones Old attraction We bop to the beat here the pitter of our feet, take complete control Now just stop for a while lay down try to remember how was feeling before all that meaning and more Just thinking ‘bout those days when our souls were so care free and right here was the place to be might sit around getting high feeling loose still moving now to yesterdays groove x2
7.
Keep Moving 05:49
Ever wonder why or what to do second guess, yes it’s true that silence don’t feel right Never be ashamed of where you’ve come don’t be shy open up, we can be friends here oooh love is all we really ask for oooh we just need to find the time I hear that familiar sound Get up throw your body around, keep grooving just keep moving on My feet keep tapping the ground I won’t be turning it down, keep moving just keep grooving on Recast heart real in feel all these senses are real, remove the pain Let’s be warm again I’ve seen good days and bad don’t you know we’re all mad in our own way, we’re all the same oooh love is all we really ask for oooh we just need to find the time I hear that familiar sound Get up throw your body around, keep grooving just keep moving My feet keep tapping the ground, I won’t be turning it down keep moving just keep grooving on x3
8.
Love what you say, what you do way you look how you move the way you do it But you don’t see what is true, and this shadow follows you and you don’t know it x2 I can’t stop myself, might need professional help I can tell there’s something wrong with me Tell me are you for real, I can clearly see the more I get the more I want of you yeeeehhh Love what you say what you do way you look how you move the way you do it But you don’t see what is true, and this shadow follows you and you don’t know it x2 Never had the guts to ask you, I didn't think that you’d care coz I know that your too good for me I feel we all should put to practice, a little love for oneself respect to all that lives and breathes Love what you say, what you do way you look how you move the way you do it But you don’t see what is true, and this shadow follows you and you don’t know it x2
9.
Fishbowl 04:18
Eye to eye, from your top to tail I want you to swim by me check the key, and define your scale tell me are you happy Life is a funny thing the odds could lead to anything we live, we laugh, we dance, we play but too much of anything is bad for me I’ve been living in a world of my own, down in the deep I’m in the midnight zone AHHH I’m getting tired Face against the glass, wishing on an ocean Take me by the fin we’ll find a way if I had the chance I know that I’d do it again to gather all my things and drift away The mind is a clever thing the eye to almost everything we rise, we fall we’ve tried it all to find our way back through the bricks ‘n the rubble I hear all the talk and now, I know what your saying its woken me up now, it’s me who’s complaining and they say I can’t breathe in this bubble My face against the glass, wishing on an ocean Take me by the fin we’ll find a way if I had the chance I know that I’d do it again to gather all my things, and drift away Eye to eye, from your top to tail tell me are you happy living in a fishbowl x3
10.
My Oh My 04:37
My oh my, what have you done took your time, had too much fun Why oh why where have you gone changed your mind, chose to run What’s it to you that we’ve wound up here again to tell you the truth I’ve learnt the hard way maybe it’s me, I don’t want to see these perceptions of what we may might be try to ignore, not giving no more My oh my, what have you done took your time, had your fun Why oh why where have you gone changed your mind, chose to run A little trouble being fickle swapping what you decide, and i just can’t keep up I never thought id say it but i guess that I’ve been played as a fool Like an itch that sticks a few bones that need picking, why promise to fix the same tear you keep ripping Like a snitch with a stitch your bound to get caught in the end My oh my, what have you done took your time, had your fun Why oh why where have you gone changed your mind, chose to run It’s such a shame when you we struggle like a muggle in a wizard’s world it’s such a shame we shouldn’t juggle all our troubles and plans at least not today, If the outcome isn’t something we can both agree at least not today, I’m spending less on you and more on me My oh my, what have you done took your time, had your fun Why oh why where have you gone changed your mind, chose to run x2

about

For ten years of playing together, collective experience has shaped and instilled the music Bare Jams record and perform. Whether it’s as teens skipping school to busk in West Country villages, touring for weeks through the mountain roads of the Alps, gigging at Glastonbury, Boomtown, in London and Paris; and from skanking the night away in the German Black Forest; to pale mornings and waning spirits. These experiences are fixed in the music and the players, and the effect is brought to every gig and every record. Their danceable + confessional blend of reggae, soul and roots brings an electric sense of vitality, of life’s natural ups and downs, and a sense that if we’re good to each other things will be OK. 

In 2011, after a year trialling busking material on their local streets, then 17-year olds, drummer Sam James and singer Ollie Coombes got hold of a secondhand Fiesta, chucked their kit in the boot and whipped it relentlessly to gigs along the jurassic coastline, then across the country with bassist Dave Tyler. The three studied music together at ACM - living in the Guildford YMCA, writing and performing at local venues. In 2015, after five years of gigging, they holed up at Larkins Farm to record the Cold Treats EP with Dave Tyler and prodigious horns don Seb Skelly, whose brass arrangements laid an even greater electricity through the band’s sound, heightening the danceable as well the reflective moments in the record. Cold Treats also saw them team up with producer Tom Loffman, and begin to carve out the sound (neck-snapping backbeat, rousing horns) that would come to define later single collections Ebbs and Flows, Wasting Time and Fish Bowl. 

Since then they’ve covered 50,000 miles in tour vans and/or convoyed hatchbacks, picking up fans along the way in The Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and across the UK. Moved by a compulsion to create good music and good times amongst friends, their live show is famous for bringing an unpretentious, cosmic knees-up.

Collectivism makes it to the heart of everything Bare Jams do, writing both music and lyrics through workshops and joint sessions. For their new record This ’n’ That the band have rejoined forces with Loffman and gone back to Larkins Farm, a return, full circle, to their most characteristic sound. This ’n’ That is out on 01st May 2020.

credits

released May 1, 2020

Vocals and Guitar - Ollie Coombes
Backing Vocals, Keyboards and Synths - Josh Parmenter
Bass - Dave Tyler
Drums and Percussion - Sam James
Percussion (Tracks 3 & 9) - Dom Brench
Trumpet, Flugelhorn and Keyboards - Seb Skelly
Alto & Bari Sax, Flute (Track 4) - Jake Heath
Tenor Sax, Flute (Track 8) - Oscar Ives-Owen
Trombone (Tracks 3 & 9) - Nick Smith
Keyboards, Guitar and Percussion - Tom Loffman


All tracks composed by: Bare Jams
Recorded at: Giant Wafer Studios, Llandrindod Wells, 2019 (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10)
Music Room London, New Cross, 2018 (Tracks 3 & 9)
Kyoto Recording Studio, Larkins Farm, Essex, 2019 (Track 6)
Produced by: Tom Loffman and Bare Jams
Mixed by: Tom Loffman
Mastered by: Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.
Artwork by: Sophie Bass
Photography by: Seb JJ Peters
Words by: Leo Donlan
Art Direction by: Charlie Jungle

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