The Barr Brothers - Half Crazy (Official Video)

'Sleeping Operator' out now!! Listen here: smarturl.it/Sle...
Director: Kaveh Nabatian
Usually, when we watch a rock band play, we don't look at the details of how the music is being made. We hear music coming at us, almost magically, from larger-than-life beings singing and playing instruments. With this video, I wanted to deconstruct the way in which the music is actually created: strings vibrating, fingers moving with Olympic agility and precision, tendons flexing, involuntary muscle movements, quivering metal plates. As the video becomes more psychedelic, I imagined where the music comes from, using archives and home videos from the band: the universe around us, childhood memories, travel, catastrophe, magic, the birth of a child.

[@SharjaKhan]

I absolutely love the "Saharan" element of this song. Not every day one hears a Western song with overtones of Gnawa rhythm and Malian blues!

[@november8039]

I was trying to put my finger on it!

[@Thenewgambita]

Exactly ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Lillih3]

this is like some swamp boogie, harp playing, blues swingin' stew and I am just lovin it

[@davidjulesarseneau6364]

🙌🏻

[@goodGodtube]

In the tradition of the Montreal indie scene, the members of this band are so generously giving of their talents that one can't help but wonder if this is one of the happiest places in North America.

[@alcovitch]

It isn't, but nice try.

[@surfish2009]

Very cool old blues sound with a hypnotic aspect.

[@Staylogical]

Good Montreal boys.So much stuff coming out of Montreal.

[@ninoumgk8351]

I can not do without me this song I 'listening several times a day

[@waxattakz]

Chills run up my spine. No need to say more. This is amazingly good rock n blues!

[@roseartlefty]

Thank you so much for visiting Milwaukee WI! You were awesome..........too bad very few knew of you. Their loss!

[@lorilahman9695]

Found out about this band, and this song from RISK! Podcast. Wow. So glad for the introduction!

[@kuryamtl]

I just heard this yesterday on Chom in montreal and had to find out who they were. This is an awesome song! It almost has an African rhythm(at least to me).

[@pierrejoly205]

dam this song is great,cant wait to see them this summer at the montreal jazz festival

[@alexanderpetrusa9989]

Wow! Canada is still the best! And Montreal is a nice place to start your career!

[@treegroup1]

Great album and the vinyl sounds great.

[@KarllGilbert07]

Awesome stuff, love it. Caught it on the radio in my car back from work..picked-up a couple lyrics and..thank you you tube for making finding tunes so easy. Cheers

[@davidtehr2993]

Still works for me in April 2024

[@BettaSmetta]

Please do more of this kind of music!

[@DC-kd7xh]

Just discovered them on Radio Paradise last weekend. Better late than never I suppose. Been telling everyone I know and listening to everything I can find. Are they still active? BTW, Radio Paradise is the best free music in the 🌎.

[@cdexswzaq777]

Bon, tombé là dessus par hasar, mais il n'y a pas de hasard il faut croire, il fallait vraiment que je découvre ça! Wow.

[@cdexswzaq777]

Vivement l'Art du Québec :)

[@wexcellence]

Saw them again last week in Portland, seriously awesome live performance. They absolutely rocked this song.

[@anthonydallarosa8314]

These guys write interesting compelling and sophisticated music.

[@PedroeosLobos]

Love your sound! cheers from Portugal.

[@sopat67]

Comment peut-on ne pas aimer au point de cliquer ''je n'aime pas'' Musique enivrante qui nous fait voyager. Bien hâte d'entendre le nouvel album.

[@alannabrown8059]

love this tune....such a great fusion of French, southern blues.....☺and your own rhythm....

[@iansteggall2079]

you guys would be loved here in Australia.When are you coming.wicked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@virginiacochrane5478]

I wish I had that playing in my car .I'd pound my wheel to bits!!

[@goopipoopie]

everything about this song is unique, fresh and masterfully crafted. Couldnt be any fucking better to be honest and you must have known that when you finished it. Right on

[@darycuba]

The Barr Brothers, good shit !

[@jazzyal5365]

One of the best video ever , from a band from Montreal . That was ..... INSANE ;P

[@LouiseGuay]

Looking forward to seeing the Barr Brothers live near Montreal, Feb. 14, 2015!

[@rhythmpants]

Stopped in to say... Fannntastic ... been awhile since I was hit like that by a song.

[@jasonpitre1249]

Wow. Barr Brothers. Two thumbs way up!

[@yurirastova7536]

Jason Pitre There's your second thumb up

[@adriannademadriguera4859]

Pure perfection! Love 💕 luv this so freaking much.😊😊😊😊😊💙💚💋💕

[@rkaussner]

Absolutely FABULOUS song AND video! And Sharja's comment regarding the "Saharan" or north African "notes" within this song are right on the money!!!

[@albanoribeiro88]

i am scotched ,see the view from blue moon filme ,Obrigado Magnifico.

Heard this on the radio, never heard of the barr brothers before. Great stuff.

[@KenMorgan1157]

Cette toune la viens chercher quelque chose de primitif en moi et je ressens un feeling de lache mon stress. Fantastique This song releases something a little primitive in me and I feel a release of all my stresses. Fantastic I really get into that drum beat

[@Trahijo16]

Quel beat!!......Un super country rock sexy à souhait! J'adore

[@Blueberry6541]

bartender, i'll have a bourbon...make it a double

[@JerTurowetz]

I'm going to listen to this the next time I drive somewhere far North, Canadian and EPIC! #fb

[@ninoumgk8351]

a dashing music and fine words

[@11jacqueline11]

LOVE THIS VIDEO. Music up close and personal. The shots of the vibrations of the instruments and musicians are cool. :)

[@CRenaud12]

Wow, les images des cordes vibrantes de la harpe, génial, amusant. J'aime. Et la toune aussi. J'aime. Je découvre les Barr Brothers ce matin suite à l'article dans LaPresse. Merci.

[@testedtruths6978]

Sounds like a keeper to me, glad to be aboard!

[@blackbird5634]

this one will tattoo your mind.

[@59mar]

good metaphor :-)

[@guitarRLC]

will crow Well put, will crow!

[@blackbird5634]

Trish Chaffee thanks Trish, these guys really put flippers on my brain.

[@Mathieu140297]

I hear Rl Burnside in the guy.. Simply wow!!

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

View from a Blue Moon brought me here. Amazing movie, amazing song.

[@Lenin426599]

just saw these guys in Whelsn Dublin, best gig of my life, cant wait for them to come back bringin more chuuuunes

[@guitarRLC]

What a good reason to go to Canada! Love this music! Wish I would have known they were in Portland -- next time around!

[@peterstarr503]

+Trish Chaffee We cannot claim the Barr Bros even though they live in Montreal they do hail from Boston:(

[@tarloupio8446]

@@peterstarr503: The Barr Bros have lived in Montreal since 2005 and are apparently from Rhode Island.

[@bradleyhenry1996]

A video that does the music justice for once 👍🏼

[@mariajalvarez8871]

I just found them and I love them beautiful music 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@zipeditor]

This is such a great song; LOVING IT , awesome ; looking forward to see them in Paradiso Amsterdam on januari 24 next year

[@willowglenn]

This piece reminds me of West African blues, with the harp taking the role of the Kora. Check out Taj Mahal's hard to find album M'kutano. He goes back to West Africa to find the roots of his blues. Similar powerful vibe to this Barr brothers piece.

[@etptranslation7184]

Er... very poetic, very astral and completely unfathomable.....

[@marcmonzo]

♡ Gnawa percussion

[@LJ-sp9jl]

Awesome Live! Can't wait to see them again!!

[@dollard1234]

WOWZER!!! This music video!!! Award winning!!! The music!!! Everything about this is Exquisite

[@artaccess1]

fabulous musicians Wonder top full !

[@ufilm999]

En écoute continue + repeat; like the groove love close up of senses!

[@baskarank5323]

After a long search finally got this video... crazy over this BGM.... excellent one

[@robis3]

Frickin awesome.

[@bethhunley5208]

Hypnotic video!

[@elyarmanisaad]

Am sur that there is influence of gnawa, is gnawa rythme.... Africa mother of jazz blues and rock

[@michaelcommonvision]

Shine! on the one you love.

[@espeaheat]

SONG OF THE DAY (27 MAY 2015) The Barr Brothers - Half Crazy (2014) Album review and presentation from UNCUT, December 2014: BARR BROTHERS - Sleeping Operator (SECRET CITY) --Former Bostonian art-rockers explore spacious Americana-- After Brad and Andrew Barr broke up Boston art-rockers the Slip, they shimmied over the Canadian border, recruited harpist Sarah Page and multi-instrumentalist Andres Vial and reinvented themselves on a self-titled album that was a highlight of 2011. the follow-up is even better, an exquisite exploration of spacious Americana, characterised by hushed vocals and intricate picking punctuated by experimental splashes. “Come in the Water” evokes both the Band and the isleys, “even the darkness Has Arms” is Josh ritter-ish and there are hints of Broken Social Scene and early Wilco. But ultimately the Barrs sound like themselves - and that’s a rare and precious commodity. NIGEL WILLIAMSON To say that Canadian-based alt.folk quartet Barr Brothers happened by serendipitous accident would be an understatement. Originally an avant-rock trio from Rhode Island named The Slip, they owe their transformation to a fre and a paper-thin apartment wall. “We were on tour with The Slip and were playing a club in Montreal that caught fre during our last song,” explains frontman Brad Barr. The club was evacuated and on the pavement outside his brother, drummer Andrew Barr, lent his jacket to a girl who was shivering in the cold. He ended up marrying her and moving to Canada. “So I moved to Montreal, too,” says Brad. “And my neighbour (Sarah Page) was a harpist. I heard her playing through the wall, asked her to join and that’s how we came together.” With keyboardist Andres Vial completing the lineup, their self-titled 2011 debut earned rave reviews and a Letterman TV appearance. The follow-up Sleeping Operator took a year to record and was whittled down from 40 songs. “Sarah loves classical and I love rock’n’roll and we square it all in the Barr Brothers,” Brad says. “It’s not folk or rock or chamber pop or psychedelic or Americana. It’s all of them mixed together.” NIGEL WILLIAMSON facebook.com/newpsychedelia?fref=ts facebook.com/newpsychedelia/photos/pb.659622414093086.-2207520000.1444756724./832243846830941/?type=3&theater

[@bethhunley5208]

Love your music!

[@JoshUsheroff]

Rock on Barr Brothers!

[@wexcellence]

Saw them last night in Portland - their live performance is over the top awesome! Amazing, talented, energetic and creative. Don't miss it if you get the chance.

[@vulVkhan]

fantastic video, and music of course

[@duffy2604]

DAMN!!

[@iknowtom]

you guys are just awesome!!! just love the sound!!! listen to this all the time on my deployment

[@kd5mtl]

Hot damn that was some mighty fine pickin & singin!

[@alannabrown8059]

god=dam great - blues touch is amazing. Very hot...love you from bc, Canada!

[@pierrejoly205]

wow,i love them

[@josetheknife]

damn you guys are awesome. im putting this song in my top 10 tough sounding songs. looking forward to the full album.

[@pierrejoly205]

Im going to see them friday,yes sir

[@bethje30]

Such a good song...absolutely love the sound and rhythm...didn't know them at all..stumbled upon it through Spotify and the song caught me in 2 seconds....slightly dark and kind of a sexy sound..really good! New fan!

[@musicamex]

Your music is truly inspired and inspiring to a fellow musician. Keep thinking and playing outside of the box becsuse what you are creating is refreshingly unique. Since i accidently ran across your tackle box guitar video and followed the trail i am hooked. I will spread the word about your band. Btw, i never really liked harp but it fits your style like a key in a lock. WOW X 2.!

[@gloriapoirier9004]

Fantastic video!

[@AliceMulle]

I love this

[@dwightstone2827]

One of the better music videos I've seen. Well done!

[@AlejandroElOyentePropio]

What a new and refresh sound! :D

[@louisefrayn6296]

what a beautiful sound! I love it!!

[@kevinwoolner954]

I like , great slide work !

[@jaimerincezloeil1876]

great !

[@djsaeg]

god damn this is sugar big up from mexico city

[@nashharder5438]

Just came across this group this eve thanks to cbc radio!

[@secretcityrecords]

No time like the present!

[@benoitpotvin3989]

Sound & rhythm are awesome!!

[@youloveme369]

really awesome song and music video! mega like!

[@nsgchantelle]

Crazy good!!

[@budman85]

awesome :)

[@TheTourlous]

Yup very nice and hypnotic, genre Appalachian music; un peu.

[@Pastefluo]

C'est parfait!

[@yolandbourque340]

Très intéressant comme sonorité. Bravo!! Vive l'amour fou, l'amour coup du cœur car sans cela aurions-nous connu les Barr brothers!!!

[@vladtheinhaler229]

Seriously fine sound here...sweet creative work....thanks for this "secretcityrecords"! Nice!

[@robertplante1]

Très innovateur bravo

[@laurencedoyon223]

J’adore cette chanson"

[@TruthMirrororriM]

What a great groove, never tire of it. #addictive

[@adfadf5571]

It's just straight up god damn awesome.

[@kevinwoolner954]

Awsong , love it !

[@heathernewcomb7078]

Omg I love this. How did I miss them?