Single I Rebecca Downes – Sign Your Name
Rebecca Downes – Sign Your Name
Digital distribution is by Cargo Records
Birmingham (UK) based independent artist Rebecca Downes announces the release of her own interpretation of the Sananda Maitraya (Terence Trent D’Arby) song “Sign Your Name”
To be released on Friday 21 February through her own label Mad Hat Records, the single will be available on all streaming platforms
The jazzy, laid-back, atmospheric interpretation of the songis performed by Rebecca and her song writing partner Steve Birkett, with the music produced by Steve and mixed and mastered by Steve and his son, Steve Birkett Jnr.
Rebecca and Steve are busy writing new, original material for release later this year. In the interim, in response to requests from gig-goers, they are releasing cover songs that they have in their ‘stripped back trio’ sets.
This single follows their version of the Gnarls Barkley song “Crazy,” which proved to be very popular when they released it in December. Within the stripped back sets, these cover songs are chosen because Rebecca and Steve love them, and they deliver an interesting contrast to theoriginal materialfrom their ‘Stripped Back’ album, released in 2021.
If all goes according to plan, there will be one more cover song single released in April to be followed by the first of the new, original tracks in May. A series of further single releases will lead up to the release of a new album either later this yearor in early 2026.
Talking about the release Rebeccasays: “Our plans for the release of new material are coming together but the first single is a few months away. We wanted to keep the buzz created by Crazy going, we’ve always loved this track, and we are keen to broaden our repertoire in terms of vocals and arrangement, so we decided to release it now. We will be following it up with something very special in a few weeks and then we’ll start releasing the new tracks.
”Steve Birkett continues: “Whenever we do a cover song we get asked whether we plan to releaseit and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do just that with Sign Your Name, especially as Crazy seemed to go down so well.”
Website: https://www.rebeccadownes.com/