Some duets just seem to work on a much deeper level, leaving you with the feeling that the two voices were just meant to sing together. That’s the impression I was left with when I first heard Irish singer-songwriter Peter Doran singing ‘Blue Mountains’ with US singer songwriter Haley Heynderickx. It just sounds like the most natural thing ever. Heynderickx brings a laid-back vibe to the song while Doran gives it a timeless quality…combined it’s an irresistible song, it really doesn’t get much better than this.
The song is taken from his fifth studio ‘Voices’ which is out now (order via Bandcamp). The songs were written in the six-year period since “Outlines”, a time of great change in Peter’s life, which saw him marry his long-term partner and muse and move into a 200-year-old farmhouse on the outskirts of Mullingar.
Peter Doran explains “Everyone carries about an idea of Paradise. A dream-perfect world in which to live out their days. Blue Mountains is the tale of a clean living, God-fearing man whose only wish is to leave the world behind and set up home forever with his sweetheart deep in the Blue Mountains.
“Where are his Blue Mountains? Our love-struck protagonist has never been there, couldn’t point them out on any map… but he’s been there in a song. It’s a story-book romance for him and it’s just enough to keep him keeping on.
“When I was growing up, I had a musical mentor in an incredible local guitar player named Vinny Baker. He passed away suddenly in 2013 and a few years later his acoustic guitar came to me. Blue Mountains was the first song I wrote on that guitar. I believe it was waiting in the instrument. A gift from its former owner. I was joined by US Songwriter Haley Heynderickx on harmony vocals on this recording. We sang side by side, on the first day of recordings for my upcoming album Voices.“
The video stars Colleen Elsofany. It was filmed and Directed by Lucy Jones and John Hennessy of Kerbute Productions at Oldtown, Rathconrath Mullingar.
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