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Artist:Amarillo

Genres:
  • Indie
  • Pop
  • Roots
Melbourne, VIC

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Track: Faces by Amarillo
Track: FacesGenres:
  • Pop
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    Amarillo is the project of Melbourne duo Nick O'Mara and Jac Tonks. Singing songs and playing guitars acoustic and electric, their self-titled 6 track EP is their first offering. Recorded at Dead on Sound at The Parlor in Preston, once a funeral home now a collaborative space for artists. The pair spent last winter happily locked away in a disused morgue recording their songs with engineer and friend Ryan Granger. The sound they’ve produced is a blend of pop harmonies, soaring lap steel, dark tremolo and slack tuned finger style guitar. Nick O’Mara is the guitarist in Raised By Eagles, he's on the interchange for Mick Thomas' Roving Commission and front’s his own band. Jac Tonks has done backing vocals for O’Mara, Raised by Eagles and Mick Thomas' Roving Commission. Jac grew up surrounded by figures of the Melbourne Irish music scene, her mum and extended family all playing in the O’Dowd family band. O’Mara and Tonks started writing songs together, and Amarillo was born. 2013 saw ...

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    Nick O'Mara Jac Tonks
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