“Is there really people living on Mars? Is it even real if I can’t see it?” As far as choruses go, it sounds like something David Bowie might have asked of Stanley Kubrick – the spaceman to the filmmaker. Rather it’s Prince Edward Island’s Calm Baretta daydreaming of a life in the make-believe world that exists somewhere between the two, with their latest single, “Silver Screens.”
The band describe the song in literal films terms: they picture their Hollywood dreams as a matter of “looking ahead and projecting something bigger for yourself.” They don’t mess around with metaphor, choosing to base the song around “being at a movie theatre and dreaming of being that actress in the spotlight on the screen some day.”
Not to be confined to a single medium, the band had original artwork produced for the single in the form of a hand cut collage on paper by Monica Lacey.
“It was really inspired by the song itself, and this feeling of expanding horizons and moving from one state to another. The girl is taken from a 1960s photo showing the high fashion on Carnaby St. in London at the time, and she’s walking with all this confidence and determination toward a future that she knows is waiting,” explains Lacey.
“It’s a bit about feeling larger than life, taking over your landscape too, because of this expansiveness. I love the line about ‘is it even real’ and I was thinking about how things become real through us seeing them, how our perspective brings the true form out.“
Of course, we’re still waiting for the actual video version of the single.
Calm Baretta say that they are currently in the studio, with another single ready to be fired off. You can expect to see the band’s debut EP out sometime later this Fall.
Show Dates:
07.01.19 – Charlottetown, PE @ Canada Day in the Park
07.19.19 – Charlottetown, PE @ Fishbone’s*
08.04.19 – North Rustico, PE @ Watermark Theatre
*with Racoon Bandit