Barry‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ Muir's “Smoke Filled Room”: Jazz-tinted nostalgia with modern heart.

A chance reunion is transformed by Barry Muir into a slow-burning, downright smooth soundscape.

Barry​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ Muir is a seasoned musician from Canada whose musical journey is essentially his association with three influential and successful bands, i.e., The Payola$, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, and The Blue Shadows. Barry has been evolving as a songwriter and as an artist of different genres through his consistent yearly releases of an album over the last ten years. By his typical warm vocal style and emotionally relatable storytelling, Barry is still a 10 artist at his home studio, upgrading his artistry by combining experience, experimentation, and musical sensibilities that are ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌timeless.

In “Smoke Filled Room”, Barry Muir is not afraid to explore jazz and R&B elements and ends up creating the most atmospheric track he has ever made.

The song starts with gentle guitarwork and slowly moves to dancing strings, laid-back grooves, and the vocalization of a singer who is touched by the spirit to the full realization of the song. Muir’s warm and low-key delivery is very much in line with the emotional heaviness of the story of the return of the past and resumption of the love connection between two ex-lovers, with tension and unspoken history being subtly interlaced in the lyrics. It is nostalgic and still pristine - a captivating glimpse into the upcoming new line of work that is to be expected from his album Canvas, which is of an immense and varied ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌nature.