Deepening is released today with our moniker The Bare Bones! The title came from us musing ont he tranquility and peace of stnading near water - the cover art is a photo taken near to a mill race and the…

The Swift - Inspired by the Swift, an incredible bird that spends almost all of its life on the wing, gliding and soaring, hanging in the air weightlessly, our composition began with an agile, nimble guitar picking pattern, then the…

Vega - Vega is a guitar piece in three layers, a beautifully intimate recording with a positive and traditional folk vibe that evokes summer feelings. Juan sent us a guitar track and we reacted to the recording. It made us…

Our latest release is ‘Pen to Paper’, a collaboration with Holly Jones - an amazing musician residing in Edmond, Oklahoma. It is a modern classical solo piano piece composed, performed and recorded by Holly. We've long admired Holly's work and…

Wintering - Our latest release is Wintering, a tune that came to us during the cold days of January. We were trying to capture the feeling of slowing down and pausing, as nature does, during the dark Winter months. A…

Anamnesis - the title came from us musing on a hurdle hedge Steve had made from coppiced hazel. After a few weeks, the hedge started sprouting shoots, we were amazed that the cut wood wasn't dead, it was very much…

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year! Lots of love, Char and Steve :)

We’ve been pretty busy in the last 12 months, writing, recording and streaming a lot of new music, both for Whalebone and our dreamy, laid back alter egos The Bare Bones. We’re really excited to let you know that…

Whalebone have a new release today called 'Where Rivers Meet'. In this restful tune the two guitars weave bites and melodies together, becoming lost in each other, like two rivers converging to become one. It's going to be included on…

The Bare Bones have a new release today called 'Letting Go', that we’re thrilled is part of the Florecilla Records compilation Soothing Guitar Moods (Vol 1) released today. It’s a nylon string guitar tune with a thoughtful melody, expressing the…

Whalebone have a new release today called 'Mellow' - Quite possibly the happiest tune we have ever recorded. The world feels quite strange and in a constant state of flux at the moment, so we set out to write an…

The Bare Bones have a new release today called 'What Led Us Here' - a gentle tune musing on how we get to where we are. The cover art is a photo taken from an amazing art installation we visited…

We have a new Whalebone release out today called 'Upstream' -  a restful tune that captures the tranquility of following a stream to its source, to where it begins. We hope you like it :)

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Alongside the music of Whalebone and The Bare Bones, over the past few years we’ve discovered a new-found passion for recording the sounds of the natural world, and especially the hidden ones not usually audible to the human ear. 

Using…

We're very honoured to have our latest release 'Inward Migrations' feature on the first Sky Valley Records compilation album! A wonderful selection of tracks from a group of wonderful indie artists 🎵 

So along with the The Bare Bones there's…

We have a new release out today - and our first collaboration with another guitarist - Juan (Elson Complex), a fabulous musician from Switzerland. He sent us an idea, we added our ideas and ta-da… the result is ‘Easy’ -…

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to support us yesterday in the beautiful Holy Trinity Church in Coalbrookdale. It was an honour to play in such a fantastic setting. Our setlist included a lot of tunes we hadn't performed…

We have a new The Bare Bones release out today called 'Falling Light'.  

Recorded on nylon string guitars, our aim to wrap you in some warm musical notes so you can float away and chill ;) The photo…

Our first track to reach over a million streams on Spotify - Whiskey in the Jar. It's amazing to think that we have accumulated a million streams for one track, beyond on wildest dreams when we recorded it in our…

The Bare Bones have had an Editorial add to Spotify's 'Calming Acoustic' playlist! Huge thanks to Florecilla Records for supporting the release and the Spotify editorial team for the placement. You can listen here: 

We have a new The Bare Bones release out today called 'Stillness'. 

Recorded on nylon string guitars, the aim was to try counter the fast paced, sometimes frenzied world we find ourselves in by writing a calming and cinematic tune…

Listen and Download the MP3 here: What the Land Remembers

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Our latest release, What the Land Remembers, is a hymn to the spirit of the natural world, and to the deep knowledge…

Listen and Download the MP3 here: Oh My Sweet Carolina

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When we first heard Ryan Adams perform Oh My Sweet Carolina during a songwriters circle concert and were…