Metropolis and Color (a.ok.a. singer-songwriter Dallas Inexperienced) has simply launched the emotional new observe “Meant To Be”, the primary new music from Metropolis and Color for the reason that 2019 album A Capsule for Loneliness.
As a press launch for the brand new single explains, the only is Inexperienced’s response to a painful, life-changing loss when, in September 2019, he realized that his finest pal, longtime Metropolis and Color producer Karl Bareham, drowned whereas swimming off Australia’s Gold Coast whereas the band was on a break throughout an Australian tour.
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Inexperienced then needed to determine his pal’s physique on the morgue, a chilling expertise stays with him.
“That was the toughest second I’ve had in my total life. It modified me endlessly,” he stated.
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When he returned house to Canada from the tour, Inexperienced was nonetheless emotionally distraught when the worldwide pandemic erupted, leaving him overwhelmed and struggling.
As he started to manage, Inexperienced hadn’t supposed to put in writing concerning the loss — in his coronary heart and soul, in actual fact, he had no concept how he even would.
Then, sooner or later a line out of the blue got here to him, “the solar stored on rising,” adopted by a melody. Inexperienced wrote it down and stepped away as a result of it was then that he knew he was on the right path to honour his pricey pal.
“Writing ‘Meant To Be’ turned out to be a much-needed pure and cathartic expertise for Inexperienced,” notes the relase. “The music is a good looking, heart-wrenching and fiery elegy that resonates deeply.”
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