Lift Your Head Up
The Repressions’ song “Trust Your Doors” is the official entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2025! This is a song about the difficulty of making changes, for even the best changes to our lives are not easy.
This contest features independent artists and is a lovely showcase of songwriting, and desks! A new tiny Repressions desk and all of the previous customized tiny desks can be seen in between the color scheme. Thank you for watching!
The Warrior Women Concert highlighting Female Artists in New York City was just the right event to play “I’m Just Pieces,” a song about what it’s like to walk around in a woman’s body. You can see it on YouTube video today!
The Repressions perform their original song, “I’m Just Pieces,” live at The Warrior Women NYC concert at American Federation of Musicians New York, on June 28, 2024. So many thanks to Jasmine Sandler of Warrior Women In Business for putting this amazing show together. Thank you to Citizen Hullabaloo for the video!
I’m Just Pieces Words and music by The Repressions (Barbara Dragon and Nate Lay) © 2016 Colorful Castle
New YouTube video today! The Repressions perform their original song, “To The Wilds,” live at Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights NYC.
Nature is wild, nature is what we are… “What’s To Be Expected of the Wild” live at Organic Grill in NYC, April 2024 – Thanks for watching!
The Repressions’ new song “Each Time You Go Away” is the official entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2024! This contest features independent artists and is a splendid showcase of songwriting and desks! A new tiny desk and all of the previous customized tiny desks can be found in the video
In life we try on many hats, as we should, to figure out who we are. The world at large puts many hats, labels, and behaviors upon us that may not align with who we really are, and the parts of ourselves that we know, deeply, and without pretense. Each Time You Go Away is a song about going away from, and trying to get back to, your true self.
Thank you for watching and remember to seek out the other artists in the contest, it is always full of talent!
The Repressions’ new song “Earth Skyscraper” is live on YouTube today.
The Repressions’ new song “To The Wilds” is the official entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2023! This contest features independent artists and is a splendid showcase of songwriting and desks! This is the fourth year The Repressions have entered, and all four customized tiny desks can be found in the video, if you look carefully.
To The Wilds is a song about humbly reconnecting with nature. Thank you for watching and remember to seek out the other artists in the contest, it is always full of talent!
This Saturday’s Twitch show was so fine and lovely~ we are so grateful for the audience and friends we have made!
Join us there, and on our Youtube channel as well
The Repressions are bringing their album, one song at a time~ On Saturday September 26th, the new song STARLIGHT GOLF COURSE will be released on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music. Google Play Music, Youtube Music, iHeartRadio, Tidal, Deezer,Anghami, Napster, Bandcamp and anywhere else you stream or download music. This is a song about the reverence of nature, and how it can stay with us always.
Join The Repressions on Facebook live. Saturday 9/26 at 7PM https://www.facebook.com/events/999471757180967/
We call it Forest Music, some of these songs, because we feel connected to the very sound of that. Musical genres blend and leap and jump and share, we cannot adhere to one of we tried, yet we are always asked what type of music do we play? At one concert in 2019, we played a set list of our melodically softer and quieter songs, and a stranger in the audience approached us afterward and said “It sounds like Forest Music,” and we were all excited smiles.
If something as revered by us as a forest could produce something as revered by us as music, then to even capture a hint of that in the imagination fills us with humble glee.
We are currently recording “Ophelia’s Song, “”From the Blue Green Sea,” “Followcat,” and “Quiet Solitude. These are songs that tell some of those tales.
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