Live at Evoke, ft. Lauren Rycroft
Track Bio
Willow is the new single from Leeds-based singer/songwriter Harry Orme and London-based songwriter/producer Frankie Harper. Willow is the pair’s second collaborative release, following on from 2022’s Me & Simona.
The pair describe Willow as “an acoustic vignette about nostalgia, resignation, and how we can sometimes find ourselves attached to remembered or imagined versions of the ones we love.”
In 2022’s Me & Simona, Harry and Frankie’s anonymous narrator was looking back on their childhood, reflecting on the changes that time brings and the sometimes surreal nature of reconciling our memories of the past with our sense of who we are now. Willow often concerns this same theme of time’s ability to recast our memories, and our memory’s ability to tamper with our understanding of the present. This time, however, our unnamed, possibly unreliable narrator is taking stock of their adult life, or at least part of it, who begins to find that time has soured memories that once were sweet.
Says Harry, “with Willow, we wanted to create a breakup song that felt very, very raw, but without any bitterness in it. Sometimes the scariest thing about a breakup might not be that anyone’s done anything wrong; it might be that no one’s done anything wrong, you know? And you’re left wondering which one of you has changed. Or if both of you have changed. Or if whatever understanding you thought you had about yourself was just plain wrong.”
Harry Bio
Harry Orme is a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and arranger based in Leeds, UK.
As a singer-songwriter, Harry has toured the UK and Europe and has opened for internationally renowned songwriters/bands across the folk and indie spectrum, including Big Thief, Scott Matthews, Tiny Ruins, Sara Watkins, Ciaran Lavery, Emily Portman and Luke Concannon.
As well as an artist in his own right, Harry is an in-demand performer and arranger across the folk and jazz scenes in the North of England, including collaborations as a sideman/arranger with George Boomsma, Elanor Moss, Chris Brain, The Silver Reserve.
Frankie Bio
Frankie Harper is a London-based composer, songwriter, producer, and engineer. He is a co-founder of Evoke Studios and is one half of alt-pop act In The Morning Lights.
As a composer for Sony's Extreme Music, Frankie has secured international syncs with Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky.
In 2023 Frankie co-composed, produced, and mixed the World Sound Track nominated score for 'Horizon: Call of the Mountain'.
Frankie's work in pop music includes co-producing and mixing the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest entry for the Czech Republic. His work has been selected as Radio 1 Track of the Week and has topped Spotify's Viral 50 chart.
In 2020, he signed a worldwide publishing deal with Faber Alt.
Praise for Harry and Frankie’s last single Me & Simona:
“…singer-songwriter Harry Orme’s music is infused with a delicate, enchanting and luminous charm”
- Louise Dodgson, The Unsigned Guide
“Quite frankly, Me & Simona is beautiful. It continues the tradition of songwriters like Nick Drake… Needless to say they have our full attention. With a debut this fantastic, they’re setting the standard incredibly high.”
- The Wild Is Calling
“a beautiful debut insight into what the pair both have to offer… bottles up nostalgia within its softened layers and reaches out directly to your own heart in every simple but dear sound”
- Tatiana Whybrow, Existential Magazine
“Knowing how to bring nostalgia and melancholy to life is an art... we love this atmosphere”
- Direct Actu