Irish indie artist The Butterfly Graveyard – releases evocative new single ”Barcelona” this Friday 9th of August

Delicate and delicious, Irish alt-rock artist The Butterfly Graveyard is located somewhere between The Blue Nile, Jeff Buckley and the deep blue sea. He makes a fragile music, soft as a butterfly’s wing but sometimes rough and uneven like the underbelly of a leaf, translucent when held up under the light. 

“This song is a homage to the city of Barcelona and to one of its most famous sons the architect, Antonio Gaudi. It was inspired by a visit to Barcelona, a stroll down Las Ramblas and its morning markets and the abiding memory of seeing quiet a few songbirds singing from their cages. I remember that night back in the hotel I had a dream which, Gaudi in the dead of night went to Las Ramblas and freed all those songbirds from their cages. In exchange for which, the birds agreed to fly Gaudi up to the top of his cathedral in order for him to better survey his work. 

This image of Gaudi, being bourne aloft by a flock of songbirds to the top of La Sagrada Familia stayed with me and in the end, I had to write a song about it.

So the track is a homage to Barcela, Antonio Gaudi and of course to the songbirds.”