{"id":64503,"date":"2020-08-14T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=64503"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:20:30","slug":"daphne-guinness-new-album-revelations-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/08\/daphne-guinness-new-album-revelations-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"DAPHNE GUINNESS’ NEW ALBUM: \u2018REVELATIONS\u2019 OUT NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today sees the release of \u2018Revelations\u2019 the new album from Daphne Guinness, produced by Tony Visconti and available now via Agent Anonyme\/Absolute. Daphne recorded the new album at Les Studios Saint Germain, Paris \u2013 working once again with David Bowie producer Visconti, also at the helm for Guinness\u2019 previous two critically-acclaimed albums, \u2018Optimist in Black\u2019 and \u2018Daphne & The Golden Chord\u2019. \u2018Revelations\u2019 is now available to stream across all platforms here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Retaining the analogue recording techniques used on \u2018Daphne & The Golden Chord\u2019, \u2018Revelations\u2019 finds Guinness on playfully incisive form as she squares the circle between her asymmetric musical tastes and the uncertainties of the modern world. Guinness\u2019 creative partnership with Visconti was forged via an introduction from Bowie, a fan of Daphne\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

Their first outing – Daphne\u2019s critically praised 2016 debut \u2018Optimist in Black\u2019 – was a Sixties-influenced affair heavily influenced by the loss of two of her closest friends (both of whom referenced Guinness as a muse), Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow, both to suicide. Visconti produced \u2018Optimist\u2026.\u2019 concurrently alongside \u2018Blackstar\u2019, with Bowie often dropping in on Tony\u2019s sessions with Daphne.<\/p>\n

Once more partnering with her musical director, Malcolm Doherty (the pair having met whilst touring with Visconti\u2019s Bowie tribute outfit, Holy Holy), for \u2018Revelations\u2019 Daphne has brought together a band featuring Doherty and his Go-Kart Mozart bandmate Terry Miles amongst its ranks, alongside Roger Manning Jr (Air, Beck) and Rod Melvin (Brian Eno).<\/p>\n

The album explores a French-flavoured disco sound, the band slipping into their white Repetto shoes to capture the nonchalant grooves of mid 70\u2019s Gainsbourg, sprinkled with the dance floor decadence\u00a0of Studio 54. It includes single release \u2018Deviant Disco\u2019, which also features in a new art-film project – nominated for this year\u2019s Berlin Music Video Awards – created by Daphne with another long-term collaborator, David LaChapelle.<\/p>\n

Though you\u2019ve probably heard the name before, Guinness somehow resists definition. There\u2019s the close friendships with McQueen and Blow, the various collaborations with artists & designers, alongside well-respected ventures in the world of film.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering at this stage what her reason for making albums with Visconti at the helm might be, a better question to ask is why she waited so long. A young Daphne trained professionally as a Lieder singer, gaining a place at the Guildhall School of Music before life for her took a left turn towards marriage and raising her children. \u201cI began in music\u201d, she reveals, \u201cand now I\u2019ve ended up there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find Daphne Guinness online on Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and her official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n