Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown – Don’t Look Back (Eurydice) is out now
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Anna Domino joins Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown on luminous art pop single ‘Don’t Look Back (Eurydice)’
The cult pop singer conjures a spectral drama from the track’s halcyon production, wreathing the warm pads and joyful strings in the cosmic myth of Eurydice and Orpheus.
‘Don’t Look Back (Eurydice)’ will feature on Bager’s collaborative album with singer-songwriter Findlay Brown, set to come out in 2025. Brown’s vocals feature on the track as well, merging with the gauzy threads of Domino’s voice.
The collaboration has its own musical wellspring. Domino’s synth pop of the 80’s is a particularly revered item in the Balearic canon, which Bager – the veteran dj, producer and compiler – has played his part in assembling.
Anna Domino says about the song:
“When I heard the music Kenneth sent me, it suggested the feeling of a really good high.
What the lyrics describe is the seductive dream that a drug can provide – the genuine joy at being in a beautiful place that just happens to be hell. The question becomes – how do you find your way back home from such a nightmare.
So it is a story about Eurydice and her decision to leave the underworld. She speaks to Orpheus of her fascination and fear of the place as she leads him through it.
When I was a child, I saw the movie Black Orpheus and it broke my small heart. The power of that film has never left me.”