Los Angeles’ Among Savages is excited to announce the release of the new album Accounts of Friend and Foe available worldwide.
Among Savages is a living, evolving musical project about one man, Los Angeles musician Peter Barbee’s coming to terms with the trials and treasures of fading youth. With a raw vulnerability, Barbee creates a grandiose musical backdrop for his simple and candid style of storytelling. An eclectic mix of literary and musical influences infuse his music with surprising and unorthodox orchestrations and bring a classic nostalgia to otherwise innovative arrangements. Reading much like the chapters of a novel, Barbee’s music invites us into a very personal yet universal struggle with evolution, identity, and self-actualization.
Tracks like “Getting Older Quicker” are a literal interpretation of the fear and the dark realities of aging and acknowledging our own mortality. Not all of the track occupy this type of heavy subject matter. The haunting and seductive “No Such Thing” was written to act as a musical backdrop for a dark club full of gin martinis.
“The Art of Living,” the closest thing to a lullaby Barbee has ever written, inspired by Joesph Campbell’s book of the same title, is about having a mindset in which you view your life here on earth, as a cycle. The lyric, “All the colors in my head, from black to blue to green to red” is a reference to the “complimentary colors” that are said to have the strongest contrast against one another, but when combined produce black. This is the finale. The curtain falling on all of the elements and ideas on the album. The end of one cycle.
Among Savages will be celebrating the release of the record, and playing these songs live at School Night at Bardot in Los Angeles on August 21st. Details and RSVP information can be found HERE.
