Bluey Green welcomes 2021 with his debut single – the feelgood ‘Morning Sunshine’
Mount Maunganui artist and songwriter Bluey Green makes an impressive debut today with his uplifting summer anthem, Morning Sunshine.
A dreamy indie-pop-meets-surf-rock gem, Morning Sunshine captures a feeling of optimism and hope, with Bluey Green (AKA Mitch Horton) explaining that the turmoil of 2020 was the catalyst for him to create a musical presence of summery optimism and hope, drenched in the elements of his 90’s upbringing and surf culture.
“The initial concept of the song came about a few years ago but I hadn’t really built on it until the middle of 2020,” says Horton. “The song wears its heart on the sleeve in terms of meaning. But in short, its simultaneously about the simple hopefulness found in the beginning of a new day and the need for us to all possess relationships and spiritual ideas that keep us hopeful and excited about the future.”
Horton adds that he wanted to make a song that sounded great on a road trip. “I was on a surf trip throughout Mexico for a while with a friend that would play You’re the Voice by John Farnham every morning to get us moving and it worked every time! I sort of hope ‘Morning Sunshine’ could be that same song for someone else.”
Although a self-described songwriter from birth, to do the song justice, Horton sought out the critically acclaimed artist and producer Mark Perkins, who is better known as his artist name MERK, to produce and mix Morning Sunshine.
“From the get go I knew I wanted to work with Mark Perkins on my first collection of releases. I hadn’t met him but being such a big fan of his music (MERK) I just had a feeling that he would get my vision and help it come to life,” he says.
“Mark was an absolute wizard and even figured out how to decipher my genius ideas such as ‘I think the keys should sound like a marshmallow’. I can truly say making Morning Sunshine with Mark, became one of the single greatest experiences of my life.”
Now based in Mount Maunganui after an adventurous life of surf and travel, including a stint in Eastern Europe as part of a rock opera, Bluey Green navigates a bridge between the worlds of pop, surf rock and dance while staying true to his authentic and honest song writing.
Morning Sunshine is the first single from Bluey Green’s debut EP and will be accompanied by a video, due out in the coming weeks. Watch this space!
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