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The Life of Pearls is fronted by the Ottawa-Toronto performance duo of Producer/Songwriter Timothy Trieste and vocalist Shann Bailey. Their inspired 2021 record album “Into The Beautiful Blue” (on Sound of the Muse Records) features 14 beautifully rendered new songs, infusing the singer songwriter and adult contemporary genre with warm and breezy, jazz inspired song arrangements, lush in melodic poetry, featuring the sultry lead vocals of Shann Bailey and her signature backing vocal arrangements, along with the stellar jazz piano of Peter Brown. The album is produced, composed and arranged by Timothy Trieste, with vocal production by Shann Bailey and mix engineering by Bruce Valeriani.
The principle players on the album include: Shann Bailey (lead and backing vocals, keys/synth) Timothy Trieste (guitars, percussion, backing vocals), Peter Brown (piano, piano solos, organ), Jamie Holmes (drums), and Charles Richer (bass.) Additional featured studio musicians: Nelson Martins (keyboard on The Place That Was Before) Peter Grant Mackechnie (electric piano on Keep It Together), Mike McNeil (drums), Alex Mastronardi (bass) and Joseph Zulak (electric violin on Flower In The Fray.)
Music Videos from The Life of Pearls new album
“Sunny (More Sweetness With Honey)” – words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher)
“It’s all riding on sunny / I’ve turned it over, I must confess / You get more sweetness with honey / In all the world there’s only peace to see us through.”
“Sunny” the first song on the new album, is the central song in The Life of Pearls stage show which features Timothy Trieste’s narrations from his inspired book of short stories.”Sunny” spotlights the gorgeous vocals of Shann Bailey backed by the lyrical jazz piano of Peter Brown and the acoustic groove of Trieste’s guitars, the bass of Charles Richer, and the drums of Jamie Holmes which permeate the album.
“Rock Fight” – words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher)
“Sticks and stones / Memories of a stone-cold road / Makes rocks of our bones.” A cosmic vision of the birth of the universe to the sound of a great backing band.
“Walking Away” – words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher)
“We’re born alone. This body is not meant to last. And your mourn alone. Only one step ahead of your past.”
A short music film by Timothy Trieste begging forgiveness for our destinations which too often wish they were always somewhere else. The short film illustrates some of the imagery used in The Life of Pearls stage show, punctuated by Trieste’s excerpts from his short story collection introducing each of his songs in the show. Walking Away is hauntingly interpreted by vocalist Shann Bailey. The piano work of Peter Brown is sublime, as are the bass lines of Charles Richer.
“Sugar Waves”words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN Timothy Feher)
“We’re lovers / Skin divers we are / Sugar waves crashing the shore / Love’s survivors we are.”
Sailing through the tropics to an an endless summer, bossa rhythm vibe, Sugar Waves will keep you warm all winter long.
The Life of Pearls stage show: “Into The Beautiful Blue” An excerpt from the 2020 concert stage show featuring an excerpt from one of Trieste’s short stories “Water Diamonds” followed by the song “If You Dare” memories of a midnight skinny dip.
The Life of Pearls 2021 album “Into The Beautiful Blue” now streaming on Spotify and Apple Music
Full Length Song selections from The Life of Pearls new album
“Keep It Together” – words and music by Timothy Trieste and Shann Bailey (SOCAN Timothy Feher)
“”Can we come together? / The world is a mystery / The price of your love is you life / Reaching ever across the space between you and me.”
“Keep It Together, from the new album, is one of the central retro songs in The Life of Pearls stage show “The Summer of Love”. The show is based on narrations from Timothy Trieste’s book of short stories about that mythical summer in 1967. The stage show and the songs take us on a journey through memory, the coming of age in a changing world, and the magic of all those summers past.
“The Place That Was Before” – words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN 2019 Timothy Feher)
“The way you always jest / Like Shakespeare at his best / Everything a play within a play / And there’s wine stains on the stage / We acted out our rage / As the footlights dim the actors lose their way…” A moving song about memory, lost love and a haunting final scene on the stage so many years ago. Trieste composed the song from his short story and stage play, now featured in Episode 2 of Trieste’s new short story film series commissioned by The Great Canadian Theatre Company showing now at GCTC. The song “The Place That Was Before” features a vocal duet with songwriter Trieste and lead vocalist Shann Bailey, beautifully accompanied on piano and keyboards by Nelson Martins.
“Admission” – words and music by Timothy Trieste and Shann Bailey (SOCAN 2019 Timothy Feher)
“…Piano chords above the corner store, they’re writing songs like this.” Originally conceived by Bailey and Trieste as a tribute to the jazz standard ballads of the 1940’s and 50’s, The Life of Pearls duo first jammed out the idea for “Admission” one summer evening, on an old painted piano (pictured above) in a west Ottawa park in Stittsville. By the time the moon came up through the trees, Bailey and Trieste had most of the song written and returned to their west Ottawa “Sound of the Muse -DreamForest Studios” to record the demo tracks.
“Rock Fight” – words and music by Timothy Trieste (SOCAN 2019 Timothy Feher)
“…Sticks and stones, memories of a stone cold road, make rocks of our bones.” A song about human memory and the origin of the universe after the big bang, “Rock Fight” came to Trieste in a dream and is the central song and story line in another of Trieste’s short stories narrated between the songs during The Life of Pearls concerts. The recording features the outstanding solo piano of Peter Brown, and the tight rhythm section of Jamie Holmes on drums, Charles Richer on bass, and Timothy Trieste on guitars.
The Life of Pearls”In every grain of sand / is the stardust of the universe.
In the course of oceans reaching land / is the pearl that grows inside of everything.
On the sandy spit / somewhere in the south seas of your mind,
Are the shells you have walked over…time after time.from the book of short stories and poetry “Into The Beautiful Blue”
by Timothy Trieste
(Companion E-Book to the album)
The Life of Pearls album download and E-Package
- the 14 song album download
- illustrated PDF lyric book
- email subscription to monthly PDF chapters from the companion illustrated book of short stories by Timothy Trieste entitled “Into The Beautiful Blue: Negotiations with Existence”
- email subscription to The Life of Pearls monthly bonus songs (mp3) and video features
- all for your $20 support plus tax
PayPal “Buy Now” button below takes you to Secure Purchase via PayPal website. If you do not have a PayPal account you do not need to “log in” once you are transferred to Paypal – rather just click the bottom option “pay with credit card” and proceed to check out. Be sure to fill in your email address so we can e-mail you the secure DropBox link (within 24 hours) to download your album and lyric PDF package. Questions: tim@soundofthemuse.com
Song Medley from The Life of Pearls 2021 album: “Into The Beautiful Blue”Featured in this video medley are some of the songs from the new album; the sultry”Sugar Waves”; the existential “Falling Through The World”; the warm ballad “Sunny”; the big bang dream recall “Rock Fight”; the beautiful ballad about place and memory “The Place That Was Before”; memoir from a late-night summer skinny dip “If You Dare” which is preceded by a live concert excerpt from Trieste’s story “Water Diamonds”; and finally the retro groove about unrequited love “Admission.”
(All songs by Timothy Trieste) SOCAN 2019 (“Admission” Words and Music by Timothy Trieste and Shann Bailey) SOCAN 2019
A Magical Summer Solstice Concert at the Historic Union Hall – Thanks to the people of Mississippi Mills for your support.
On June 22-2019 The Life of Pearls performed an “unplugged” concert celebrating the summer solstice and the local and natural history of the Mississippi River and the Mississippi Mills/ Lanark County region, west of Ottawa. It was a magical evening of music and stories attended by an outstanding Union Hall audience including the honourable Mayor. Thanks to Ken, Linda, Mary and the Union Hall committee for a special evening. Pictured above Shann Bailey takes some time in Almonte before the concert, and then poses with Timothy Trieste in front of the historic hall.
“Into The Beautiful Blue” concert excerptBetween the songs featured in The Life of Pearls 2020 concerts “Into The Beautiful Blue”, The Life of Pearls songwriter Timothy Trieste narrates from his book of short stories “Into The Beautiful Blue: Negotiations with Existence.” In this excerpt Trieste reads from “Water Diamonds” about a midsummer midnight skinny dip which set’s the stage for the story behind the song “If You Dare.”
(Words and Music By Timothy Trieste) SOCAN 2016
(Words and Music By Timothy Trieste with Shann Bailey) SOCAN 2015
“The Purpose” from the new albumThe possible marriage of quantum physics and the quest for the meaning and purpose of human existence. Maybe it’s love.
(Words and Music By Timothy Trieste) SOCAN 2016
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“Rivers Take Us Home”The Life of Pearls ode to Canada 150 celebrating our beautiful country of rivers and lakes.
(Words and Music By Timothy Trieste) SOCAN 2016
The Life of Pearls Commemorate The Beatles 50th Anniversary of the “Revolver” album recording sessions.
Read the Timothy Trieste Blog Post about “Revolver” and the importance of long play record albums in the history of music. Hear Trieste and The Life of Pearls in the 2016 live concert excerpt: The Story Behind the production of Revolver and the mystical song “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
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The Life of Pearls Summer Concert Tour and Stage Show: “The Summer of Love 1967-2017”
From the songs and stories of Timothy Trieste, “The Summer of Love” is Timothy’s memoir of that mythical summer 50 years ago. The show tells the story of a flower child named Sunny, told against the backdrop of the flower power, music and the world changing events of 1967. The Summer of Love searches for a definition for “love,” and takes us to the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, Toronto’s hippie enclave in Yorkville, and to Montreal’s Expo 67. Amidst the hippie revolution in North America , the release of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the recording of Bob Dylan’s “Basement Tapes” with 4 Canadian musicians in a country house in upstate New York, “The Summer of Love” chronicles a social and cultural zeitgeist of the 20th century. Oh Canada…Oh Flower Power, the show also remembers the 1967 Centennial summer in Canada, when our country found its own meaning for peace and love and seemed to come of age on the world stage. “The Summer of Love” features the original jazz inspired pop and singer/songwriter compositions from The Life of Pearls debut album, along with some classic cover songs from 1967.Contact
Management/Producer/Bookings: Timothy Trieste
E-mail: tim@soundofthemuse.com
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