Good Luck Songs is Daisy's third full length studio album, all of which were recorded in Bristol by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, John Parish, Gruff Rhys). Drawing comparisons from Nick Cave and Regina Spektor, Daisy's unique voice soars high over dramatic string arrangements and her own beautifully delivered 'Nymanesque' piano. Still taking her dark lyrical cues from the likes of Leonard Cohen, this album offers a brighter tone than her previous releases, only hinting at the melancholy but maintaining its soul and warmth, noticeably the song 'Generation Next' is inspired by the younger artists moving up through the musical ranks in Bristol, a journey Daisy took herself when she moved to the city 19 years ago. Daisy continues to draw on both experience and history to form her stories - from the tragedy of ‘Idilia Dubb’, a girl who met her fate trapped up a tower in 1851, to the poignant reminiscence of old England in ‘I Used To Own An Empire’. The album took longer than usual to record, mostly due to the fact she gave birth to a daughter in May 2016, but this didn't stop her working hard! She toured round Europe for a month with prog rockers Crippled Black Phoenix, and another month with her European quartet 'The Songbirds Collective', all whilst heavily pregnant. And later this year, Daisy will be travelling with them to Taiwan, taking her music further afield than ever before.
Expect beautiful music and harmony from its purest form, to its most voluminous as Daisy certainly knows how to craft a song and arrange the instrumentation so that the listener is constantly engaged.
from
Good Luck Songs,
track released November 24, 2017
Vocals, piano, mod synth: Daisy Chapman
Violin, viola: Sue Lord
Cello: Kate Green
Oboe: Sara Garrard
Trombone: Richard Cross
Drums: Tim Smith
Tambourine: Matilda Sue
Choir: Jay Head, Bristol UK
Vanessa Chapman, West Sussex UK
Christopher Chapman, West Sussex UK
Tim Pearne, Surrey UK
Philippa Pearne, Surrey UK
Oscar Lewington, Surrey UK
Olivia Chapman, Surrey UK
Andy Church, Surrey UK
Emily Maguire, Bath UK
Jenn Bostic, Nashville USA
Kaurna Cronin, Adelaide AUS
Kyrie Kristmanson, Paris FR
Rachelle Garniez, New York City USA
Ashia Bison Rouge, Berlin DE
Daniel Änghede, Gothenburg SWE
Heike Langhans, Gothenburg SWE
Linda Conway, Co Mayo IRE
Jörn Schlüter, Bremen DE
Uli Kringler, Bremen DE
Manuel Steinhoff, Bremen DE
Martin Denzin, Bremen DE
THE BREMEN CHOIR
Nomi Lachte
Salka Gimbel
Lisa Rape
Benjamin Vaudlet
Stefan Merkler
Helena Francisco
Thomas Greh
Raija Lichte
Dorothea Lichte
Axel Kruse
Mona Linge
Maraike Böhme
Sue Lord
Sonja Spörhase