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Barry's Tropical Beach Cafe the inside story from Barry Upton

As this magazine hits the stands, my new music album should be ready for release to all major digital download platforms worldwide. This latest collection of my original songs, is a slight departure from past work and has a distinctive kinda bossa nova /soft reggae / tropical feel to the music and lyrics for a more relaxing sun kissed sound.

Living in paradise, as we do here in Pattaya, Thailand, there are so many of feel and I’ve tried to embrace them all for a sexy sunshine vibe. From the inception, I wanted this to be a YouTube project and had visuals in my mind as I was writing and producing the audio at my studio. So, after completing the recording, it was time to set about making thirteen video clips to complement each song.

I decided to have a similar look for all tracks and put the whole process.

As a solo artist, I’m quite proud that I can take an idea from nothing and turn it into a written and recorded over forty years of experience in the music business has given me a sense of commerciality and I try to bring this to all my current output. After coming up with the album title ‘Barry’s Tropical Beach Café’, I looked around on the internet for a suitable backdrop venue which would look unique and have a kinda ramshackle hippie feel to it. Finally, I discovered the perfect place with Maldives type beaches and sea although it was in almost the hardest place to get to in Thailand, ‘Koh Lipe’ which is right out in the Andaman Sea close to Malaysia.

Undeterred, my girlfriend and I made the long trip out to the paradise island and we absolutely loved it. The early from the spectacularly original and ‘work of art’ beach bar, was Sunset Beach. The location was idyllic and the footage obtained, perfect. From the outset, I decided that having many beautiful girls in bikinis on the beach would be a vital part of the viewing pleasure and, in any case, would complement the lyrics of the songs. So, I set about recruiting an hard work but so much fun and all the female talent involved gave of their best to create a sunshine sexy beach vibe.

The music business has changed in recent years beyond recognition and original music has to be given away although there are still many ways to enjoy royalties from downloads and performance, plus synchronization fees for my advanced age, is to produce something of quality that I’m proud of which can be enjoyed by many people all over the world whilst, at the same time, having superb fun doing so. This has undoubtedly been achieved on this project and I look forward, with slight trepidation, to what my next idea might be. In the meantime, please enjoy a fab visit on YouTube to ‘Barry’s Tropical Beach Café’.