The Jai Paul collaborator and live band member is releasing a debut album on April 5th.
The vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer will release her self-titled Fabiana Palladino album, and has announced some gigs too including a Dublin gig on May 29th in the Workman’s Cellar.
A new single ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’ through the night is out today, and follows on from the recent song featuring Jai Paul – ‘I Care’.
‘Stay With Me Through The Night’ was the first song to be written for the record and has a video co-directed by Fabiana Palladino and Josh Renaut, and shot by Buster Grey-Jung – that showcases the intimacy of Palladino in situ at the piano where the whole album started.
“Stay With Me Through The Night” is the first song I wrote for the album. It was at the end of a tricky period where I hadn’t written music for nearly two years, and it came out in a bit of a flood, I barely even remember where or how I wrote it, but I knew it was going to be an important song for me. It ended up being the centrepiece of the album, a song that encapsulates a lot of the feeling and emotion of the rest of the record and musically it brings old together with new, which became a theme across the record…a way of combining my influences with a modern perspective.
Fabiana Palladino
Rhythmically the feeling of the song comes from funk and disco, I was thinking about the piano playing of Patrice Rushen and Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan’s ‘What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me’, Bernard Edwards bass playing on Chic’s ‘Good Times’, and The Bee Gees ‘Spirits Having Flown’ but we tried to take the track somewhere else in other aspects of the production to bring out the big feelings in the song. It situates us in the emotional world that I tried to create for the rest of the album.”
Fabiana Palladino gigs
7 Feb The Lower Third, London, UK [SOLD OUT]
26 Feb Le Boule Noire, Paris, FR
12-14 March SXSW at British Music Embassy (U.S live debut)
16 May The Great Escape (Komedia), Brighton, UK
23 May Village Underground, London, UK
25 May The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, UK
29 May The Cellar, Dublin, IE
30 May Rough Trade Bristol, UK
31 May YES, Manchester, UK
18 Aug Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
24 Aug Rally Festival, London, UK
Album Artwork: Fabiana Palladino by Nicola Delorme.
About the album:
Made in the wake of the end of a long relationship, the album is an intimate record that sees Fabiana Palladino confront complex questions about love, loneliness, and normativity in relationships. The result is a 10-track full-length of shapeshifting sonics that draws inspiration from the big R&B, Soul, Pop, and Disco studio productions of the 80s and 90s and filters them through a modern lens. Written and self-produced by Palladino, the album features performances from renowned musicians and close friends including Paul Institute co-founder Jai Paul, her father and legendary session bassist Pino Palladino, brother and Yussef Dayes bassist Rocco Palladino, renowned drummer Steve Ferrone and strings from Rob Moose.
Speaking on the new music and forthcoming album, Fabiana Palladino says:
“A central theme of the album is aloneness. Whether it’s a song where ’m searching for connection with someone else, or trying to embrace the aloneness, it tends to come back to me, who I am when I’m alone, what I feel when I really look inwards. I’d say it’s a pretty introspective record overall. The songs are often about trying to go deeper into yourself, exploring your true feelings and how they then relate to and affect your relationships with others.
