Marvin B Naylor releases the single Little Speck of Blue on Barcarolle Records on April 26th, the track is available via iTunes and all major download sites.
Naylor’s love of classic sixties pop and rock music and in particular the melodic harmonies of that period shine through in his latest release Little Speck of Blue. His rich and shimmering 12 string guitar playing has become the bedrock of his recordings after first hearing The Byrds Roger McGuinn’s jangling guitar early in his career.
After a brush with stardom as a member of the Tim Friese-Greene and Warne Livesey-produced band Salvation Sunday, Marvin opted for the life of a jobbing musician – touring the world with covers bands. But he never quite gave up the idea of writing music of his own, and in 2004 released his first solo album, Monsters and Mad Things.
Flight of Billy Balloon (its title inspired by the lyric of Scott Walker’s Plastic Palace People) followed in 2008 and is a collection of dreamlike, cinematic songs full of pastoral English psychedelia, warmth and whimsy. On merit of the album, Fatea Magazine awarded Naylor with the Fatea Innovation 08 Award.
Little Speck of Blue has already been supported by national and regional radio, with BBC 6’s Tom Robinson calling the track ‘Epic’, which is a pretty good recomendation.
Once heard, Little Speck of Blue is hard to dislodge from the memory and is one of those rare songs whose appeal cuts across generations: it’s as likely to delight fans of Flaming Lips and Grizzly Bear as those of the Beatles and the Byrds. And remarkably this richly-detailed wall of sound is all the work of one man – Winchester’s Marvin B. Naylor.
Marvin B Naylor – Little Speck of Blue
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