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Ebony Buckle

ntitled “Ghost” the stunning single release, soaring with atmospheric
Edetails the heart-wrenching experience harmonies and organic instrumentation.
that Buckle and her English husband Nick
endured during their fight to renew her The stunning visuals for “Ghost” showcase
visa after their marriage. Featuring the debilitating feeling of being completely
delicate, sweeping soundscapes, soaring alone and empty of anything except
atmospheric harmonies and organic heartache. Buckle explains how the video
instrumentation, “Ghost” builds into a is a way of finally letting go of those
dramatically haunting release. traumatic days, revealing, “It’s a very raw
video and for a while, I felt too
Ebony Buckle is a London-based singer/ embarrassed to put it out. We do not
songwriter, originally from the tropical talk openly about mental health issues in
seaside town of Townsville, Australia. society, and it made me feel very vulner-
Taking listeners on a whimsical able. I have come to believe that having
leftfield-pop journey with her complex these conversations and allowing yourself
harmonies and imaginative storytelling to be vulnerable only makes you stronger
lyricism, Buckle sings about universal in the long run. I think it shows a different
themes of romance and broken hearts to side of me. We are all made up of light and
more poetic themes of disgruntled dark and I think perhaps we need to know
mermaids, lonely whales and joyous, that everyone has their own unique dark
hypothetical alien invasions. moments, worth expressing.” Hoping to
represent the feeling of endless monotony,
Over the last couple of years, Buckle has the video depicts waking up, feeling numb,
realised that in order to create an authentic being caught in a cycle of pain and
narrative and preserve her unique creative allowing the day to carry on without you
style, she had to make her own music. being truly present.
She confides, “I am a naturally shy person
and sometimes find it hard to be myself Reminiscent of Regina Spektor, Imogen
in front of other people, but music has Heap and Kate Bush, Buckle is inspired by
really helped me connect to my true self. strong female artists who have forged their
I feel like the songs I write come straight own path into the music industry. Aspiring
from my inner dialogue and they are a true to create music which will help others
expression of who I am”. She writes and realise their most authentic self and
performs with her husband, musician Nick encouraging people to always take life with
Burns, who also produces her music. a strong sense of optimism but also to
develop that confidence to face reality
Her latest single “Ghost” details the when it may not be what you have planned.
heart-wrenching experience that Buckle Buckle confides “I hope it inspires people
and her English husband Nick endured to be true to who they are. To not be afraid
during their fight to renew her visa of being different and to know it’s ok to
after their marriage. Despite her specific express themselves and how they feel”.
experience, Ghost is a universal song of
love, loss, commitment and pain of feeling The singer come actress has performed in
utterly helpless. “Ghost” was written over The West End and on screen for the BBC.
Skype between her and her newly-wed Her role in George Gently as a Geordie
husband, as they were kept apart for nearly folk singer gave her the platform to
two years. It was a time in their lives when perform her vocal talents and her music
normality was turned upside down, and from the show reached number 1 in the
they were put in limbo. iTunes World Music Charts. Buckle
continues to have her original music
Developing an immeasurable sense of receive extensive airplay from numerous
depression due to the separation, the BBC stations across the nation, garnering
couple couldn’t plan for any future and her considerable blog attention. Every day,
during this time had no end date to look through her lyricism, music and poetry,
forward to together. It was in this difficult Buckle continues to feed our imagination
time, Buckle and Nick wrote “Ghost”. The with her beautifully kaleidoscopic music.
song acted as not only a healing Come along for the ride - her unique world
mechanism, for their pain and loss; but is completely enchanting.
allowed them to move forward together ebonybuckle.com
- with something beautiful that they had Facebook
created during their separation. Sonically, Instagram
“Ghost” builds from delicate, sweeping Youtube
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