As a vocal loop artist, Barrett records layers upon layers of vocals to create her songs.
“My sound has a jazz-blues-soul flavour. It's sitting-in-a-comfy-lounge music with a glass of wine.”
She cites as influences the R&B, blue-eyed soul and reggae sound of English artist Joss Stone, British musician/producer and loop artist MC Xander, whose music references dancehall, reggae, dubstep, drum and bass and hip hop, and American multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith's folk music group Rising Appalachia.
Barrett also incorporated her circus sideshow skills into the music video performance. A sideshow is a circus's secondary production that can include acts such as sword-swallowing, contortion and, in Barrett's case, fire play.
“My music clip will be mostly visually of me doing fire tricks. I eat fire. I was doing circus work for the past few years in Taranaki but I wanted to interact with my audience on a deeper level.
“I couldn't access that through circus and sideshow. I needed a microphone.”
Paint Me A Picture is one of four original tracks that will feature on Barrett's upcoming EP.
