Built around the songwriting team of Tommy Oberon and Rebecca Rose, Oberon Rose pulls from a variety rock, folk and pop influences that span both genres and decades.
Based out of Nashville and heavily influenced by the British Invasion and the guitar playing of bluesman Peter Green, Tommy Oberon strives to bring “my love of melody, harmony and electric guitar” to the listener.
“I don’t judge music as retro or vintage,” he says, “I listen to it if it’s good. The history of rock and roll is the history of blues, folk, country and gospel. It’s all of those genres mixed together. Certain artists bring out different aspects of it, but at the end of the day, it’s all rock and roll. With Oberon Rose, we try to pay homage to that history. I love electric guitar, I love melody and I love harmony. Those are the things I try to bring to the listener.”
Coming from a background in theatre, lyricist Rebecca Rose adds a spin on traditional storytelling and likens her lyrics to “black-box theatre…stripped down and raw and left to your imagination.”
“As a lyricist,” says Rebecca, “I want the listener to bring their own experiences to the song, so I like to keep it open. Let the listener decide what it means. David Bowie was a master at that. Garage Rock and Psychedelic Pop are the terms we most frequently hear when someone signs a Mailing List or buys a record after a show,” she says. “While we don’t necessarily aim for psychedelia when writing, when you combine Tommy’s musical sensibilities with my lyrical sensibilities, that’s pretty much what you get.”
“It’s in the vein of traditional psychedelia though,” Tommy adds. “I try to keep production simple. There’s some reverb, some delay, but ultimately, I want the music and the words to do the work.”
Oberon Rose’s forthcoming album Holographic Blues is being released on January 15th, 2021.
