Track By Track: Dani Siciliano - Dani Siciliano

Music

Dani Siciliano's third full length album is due for release on the 10th of June this month on Circus Company. The long time Matthew Herbert collaborator has previously released albums for !K7 and is possibly best known for her feature on Herbert's 2001 release 'Bodily Functions'. The self titled record see's her dabble in the elements of sould and love and fits well alongside the labels recent releases which have included the likes of Nicolas Jaar and Nôze. We caught up with her to talk through the record track by track…

WHY

Colour: aurora borealis

Season: a place where seasons don't exist

Inspiration: 10 days of silence and my (then) new tc helicon pedal (i started with the counting through a harmony patch i was working on for another track….i looped it and sang the vocal, which is the same vocal (unedited) i used for the album.

Setting: what you listen to after 10 days of silence

TAKE TWO

Colour: most honorable red
Season: the confusing month of march where spring seems close but winter holds us deep in its clutches
Inspiration: honesty
Setting: a lie

BLINK

Colour: all that glitters
Season: the raunchy humidity of the deep south in the summer
Inspiration: drumlines and pre kim kanye
Setting: new orleans

SO AMAZING

Colour: Turquoise
Season: september in SF
Inspiration: freedom
Setting: folsom street fair

I'M THE QUESTION

Colour: precisely pinkish
Season: the last weekend of summer break
Inspiration: a conversation with my 14 ear old self
Setting: the smell of chlorine, old bay seasoning and smoke from the grill.

COME ON

Colour: innocents iridescense
Season:all
Inspiration: my man
Setting: the soothing calm from his cat eye gaze

DRAGONS

Colour: Opus in Amber
Season: the dry heat of a deserts summer
Inspiration: dry lighting storm in the desert
Setting :see above

TOGETHER

Colour: electric blue
Season: the grey summers on the northern coast of california
Inspiration: harold and maude
Setting: where land meets sea meets air

CHASING THE SUN

Colour: jade
Season: the wrong one
Inspiration: sagaciousness
Setting: a crisp winters evening in a convertible with the top down

GONE ARE THOSE DAYS

Colour: 70's bond gold
Season: a lingering summers day in october
Inspiration: early detroit techno and charles mingus
Setting: a perfectly empty seaside cafe in the south of france at sunset