FABIANA PALLADINO – Fabiana Palladino – LP – Transparent Red Vinyl

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Fabiana Palladino announces full details of her hotly anticipated self-titled debut album. The UK vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer will release Fabiana Palladino on 5 April 2024 via Paul Institute / XL Recordings.

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 its a song where Im searching for connection with someone else, or trying to embrace the aloneness, it tends to come back to me, who I am when Im alone, what I feel when I really look inwards. Id say its 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.

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 hadnt 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 recorda way of combining my influences with a modern perspective.

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 Khans What Cha Gonna Do For Me, Bernard Edwards bass playing on Chics 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 first broke out in 2017 as one of Paul Institutes founding artists after her shadowy R&B-influenced spectral pop reached Jai Paul, who founded the label alongside his brother A.K. Paul. Releasing three singles in four years, she caught the ear of critics – Pitchfork likened Mystery to a scratch track from a big-budget 80s studio thats been smuggled out on reel-to-reel tape but Palladinos output remained slight. The intervening years have seen her working as an in-demand session musician for the likes of Jessie Ware, Sampha, SBTRKT and Laura Groves while intensely striving for pop
perfection in her own music. Last year, she formed part of Jai Pauls band for his live debut (which she also supported solo) on his hugely celebrated comeback tour.

Tracklist:

1. Closer
2. Can You Look In The Mirror?
3. I Cant Dream Anymore
4. Give Me A Sign
5. I Care
6. Stay With Me Through The Night
7. Shoulda
8. Deeper
9. In The Fire
10. Forever