Belong by The Song Gardeners

 

Belong

By

The Song Gardeners

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

Back in the year of the pandemic The Song Gardeners burst onto the scene for me, bringing us Altered States, Love Flows, Love is the Magic Of Change and Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu, and year after year since, more incredible music has been added to a part of the overall genre, and the nuanced side genre of New Age Pop, today some 6 years later they have released a brand new single to hit the airwaves called Belong.

The theme is pretty current given the mood of political tyranny in the country of The Song Gardner’s, America. The band themselves say it all and I quote “The lyrics and music were written by Corrie M. Dunn at a time in her life when she felt disconnected; an outsider, not fitting into the norms of society. Currently and throughout history we’ve seen groups of people being labelled as aliens and treated as less than human, the chorus is written from the point of view of an alien in society yearning to belong”, very poignantly said ladies, and very true.

Musically the song is one that grows on you and never lets you go, it has that singer songwriter feel to its arrangement, and is beautifully performed and sung by Dunn, as a singer myself, what she has achieved here on this new creation is quite difficult, with differing tones, pitches and keys all being alternated in the space of one superb song.

One might say typical Song Gardeners and it is, but there is a clever underpinned narrative here that juxtaposes a specific mood at the moment in the world or part of it, that has to change and perhaps Belong by The Song Gardeners is the creation to do it.