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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">CILLIE BARNES DEBUTS
<i>“BRAINWASH”</i> VIDEO VIA <u>NYLON MAGAZINE</u> TODAY!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“[Her] sound is equally infectious as it is inviting, and requires no time to get used to. In other words, she’s your insta-best friend, and she’s about
to bypass all of your other acquaintances and likely make it to your Top 25 Most Played by the end of the week.”
<b>–Nylon Magazine</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Feel the energy round-a-round me…tell me do you feel it too?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Bon fires, spell casting, séances and mystic trinkets galore –peep into the magical world of
<b>CILLIE BARNES</b> with the ‘more-than-just-a-lyric-video’ for her debut single
<b>“BRAINWASH”</b> via <b><i>NYLON Magazine</i></b> TODAY! <b><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1r2kEu04Sk">PRESS HERE</a></u></b><u>
</u>to watch!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The video gives homage to her beloved enchanted denizen, LA’s famed
<b><i>Happy Valley</i></b> neighborhood and showcases the ethereal songstress’s electric energy with shots of live performances, in the company of good friends, and wrapped in the confines of her ‘gypsy’ den.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Hot off the trail of her standout performance earlier this month at
<b>Neon Gold</b> and <b>Hit City USA’s</b> <b>POP SHOP WEST</b>, Cillie Barnes will support British singer-songwriter
<b>Tom Odell</b> in Los Angeles at the <b>Troubadour</b> on <b>May 7th, 2013</b> and in
<b>San Francisco</b> at <b>Café du Nord</b> on <b>May 8th, 2013</b>. Live, Cillie sweeps the audience up in her effortless vocals and powerful, mystical aura, all while keeping everyone dancing and swaying along to each song.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For all
<b>CILLIE BARNES’</b> socials head over to: <a href="http://www.cilliebarnes.com">
www.cilliebarnes.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Angela Burke // Binta Jammeh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">elcome to Happy Valley—an oddly untouched neighborhood in the corner of Los Angeles, that has served home over the decades to wild buffalo, an ostrich farm, a racetrack, and now,
<b>CILLIE BARNES</b>. In a house carved into a hillside of land time has forgotten, is where Cillie, a musician, songwriter, and supernatural psychic, resides…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The house is a mystical artist’s denizen, with walls covered in hanging tapestries, shelves filled with crystals and other apothecary, a garden where you’ll stumble upon a ceramic
effigy among the succulents and ferns, and an ever-shifting group of nomadic inhabitants. Inside lays a modest recording studio where Cillie concocts her self-described “gyp-hop” music, which embodies the eclectic, multi-faceted nature of herself.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The enchanting Newport Beach native –
<span style="background:white">daughter of convicted bank robber father and art teacher mother – moved to Los Angeles at 17 and has been here ever since.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In her house in the hill, Cillie and musical co-conspirator Joe Keefe wrote and demoed the songs that appear on her debut, a five-song collection, that recounts her time and experiences.
It's the first in a series of four collections, each with its own feel, like chapters in a much longer narrative.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Cillie and Joe developed the songs over the course of a few years, each showcasing her gravelly yet charming voice, hip-hop flow, and literary, but conversational, lyricism. The
opening number, <b>“Hey Hi,”</b> takes the listener on a journey from smoky LA bars to the crisp country air in Woodstock, New York. Using Jordan Kolasinski’s music as a backdrop, she explores feelings that arose when she returned to her favorite ride at Southern
California theme park, Knott’s Scary Farm, ‘Blood Bayou,’ as an adult <i>(“Halloween Haunt, Halloween Haunt/You don’t thrill me like you used to”).</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Brainwash”</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""> slowly builds “like TNT and Dy-no-mite” to explore the emotions after being tied up and robbed
in a Hollywood apartment owned by the infamous street artist. She fittingly describes her feelings after the event (“<i>We be like Cleo and Marc Antony/Way we’re going down”</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Solstice”</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""> delves into her Wiccan spirituality, singing,
<i>“I’ll be bringing in my solstice/In my Stevie Nicks Dress/Channeling my Energy to make my life/Less of a mess,”</i> while
<b>“Veranda”</b> explores the heartache of forbidden love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">And then, fittingly, there’s
<b>“Happy Valley.”</b> While it’s a song about a place, it’s also about what she’s created and experienced since moving there, including this collection of music.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Much like the ‘Fool’ in her deck of Tarot cards, is the spirit of Cillie—exuberant, clever, and ready to take on the first steps to a long unknown journey ahead, whatever it may
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