How Liana Flores Wove a Vampiric Romance Into New Single, ‘Nightvisions’

We truly haven't ever heard an artist quite like British-Brazilian singer-songwriter Liana Flores.

Today, she also announced that her debut album, Flower of the soul, will be arriving on June 28, teasing the upcoming release with her newest track, "Nightvisions," and its ethereal music video. The song is the perfect demonstration of the artist's own whimsical, almost otherworldly fusion of classic jazz and Brazilian pop with British folk music, transporting listeners to a landscape of Liana's imagining  as she shares a vampiric romance about the transformative powers of love. We had the pleasure of chatting with Liana ahead of today's release, and she dished all about it in the interview below.

The Story Behind 'Nightvisions'

Liana Flores: "Nightvisions" was the culmination of many long-held obsessions: earnestly dramatic love ballads, gothic romances, theatricality, fantasy, vampires, unexpected chord modulations, Jane Eyre, Rebecca and The Phantom of the Opera (I could go on). It borrows a little from each, telling a tale of a vampiric romance to explore the all-consuming and transformative aspects of love.

(Photo credit: Sequoia Ziff)

 

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What 'Nightvisions' Means

LF: It's my first straightforward love song, and to me will be always be a little jewel full of early love's intensity, in case i should forget. I hope it can give to the listener a moment of high drama escapism, spinning around, imagining of pajamas to be a gown, a bedroom to be a candlelit castle, thinking about a crush and letting yourself go a little crazy on it. I hope that it can make of every night a full moon night.

 

Liana's Favorite Lyric

LF: It changes depending on my mood, but at the moment I'm big into the half-wordless middle section: "Loooooove ahhhhhhh, I'm in love!"Sometimes a feeling hits you blunt force like that, you know.

 

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On "Nightvisions" and Her Upcoming Album

LF: My album explores love/time/transformations in many forms, and what changes and remains throughout life's seasons. A few of the other songs look ahead to or behind at love, whereas "Nightvisions" finds itself right in the middle of it.

[The album] is called Flower of the soul. In it can be found birds, butterflies, bossa novas and a thrillingly incorrect pluralization of the word "chrysalis." It will be released on June 28 and can be pre-saved HERE.

 

Final Thoughts:

LF: There is a music video out today featuring a wonderful set piece of a gigantic spiderweb hung in a forest. There was a fog machine present. If I may say so: it demands viewing.

 

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