Barra Brown

Poem Project   2014-2017

Poem Project captures the beauty of interpretation through the unique story each musician is moved to tell when interpreting the same soneight different musicians from around the country to write lyrics to and arrange their own version of the song Poem. Brown’s collaborative project spanned several years between Winter 2014 and Spring 2017 and includes members from Radiation City and The Shins (Patti King), Ages and Ages (Colin Jenkins), The Westerlies (Zubin Hensler) , and musicians from L.A, New York City, Austin, and Brown’s hometown of Portland, OR.​

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The parameters for Poem Project were as follows:

The artists were given recordings for the original Poem as well as sheet music.

They were asked to write lyrics to the existing melody.

The B section has chords but no melody, and the artists were free to compose a melody there.

How the A section and B section are ordered and how many times they are used were completely up to each artist.

The artists were asked to record their versions so that each track has a unique sound

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Korgy & Bass x Cyrus Nabipoor-"Remote"

(Cavity Search Records) 2019

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Shook Twins-"Some Good Lives"

(Dutch Records) 2019

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Korgy & Bass-"2500=4:26000 Side B"

(Cavity Search Records) 2019

Korgy & Bass-"26000:4=2500 Side A"

(Cavity Search Records) 2018

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Korgy & Bass-"EP Vol. II"

(Cavity Search Records) 2017

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Barra Brown-"Poem Project"

(Cavity Search Records) 2017

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Mo Phillips-"Spectacular Daydream"

(Hey! Bacon! Records) 2016

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Ky Burt-"The Moon and the Sea EP" 

(Self Release) 2016

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Korgy & Bass-"EP Vol. I"

(Cavity Search Records) 2016

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Matt Takiff-"Matt Takiff"

(Self Release) 2016

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Alameda-"Fortunate Vices"

(New Granada Records) 2016

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PDX Pop Now! Compilation-2015

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