“Everything’s meant to be broken /
Everything’s meant to pass …”
Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact year, but he knows his heart was broken.
A decade or so later, he was singing those words with brothers Teo and Lucas Hernandez, sliding into pitch-perfect harmony they’ve honed since those school days. After singing the chorus to the song, called“Hiding Behind The Moon,” Blair, on his Ovation guitar, and Teo, on his Martin, added a newfound twist: a chromatic descent influenced by Blair’s newfound interest in Bossa Nova music.
Blair and the Hernandez brothers form the core of Wally, a band they formed while growing up together in Hamden after they met in the Trinity Church boys’ choir. The trio were performing“Hiding Behind The Moon” during a live performance on the latest episode of WNHH FM’s“Acoustic Thursday” tiniest-of-all-tiny-desks program.
