DANiiVORY releases ethereal album ‘Dreamland.’ Dani is at this time setting up her future releases and shows and is on tour with Vance Pleasure across the globe.
You can hear to ‘Dreamland’ here:
Hello Dani! So awesome to capture up with you once more! We have cherished hearing the new album – what are the key themes and messages you want your listeners to consider absent from this undertaking?
Dreamland is a selection of music I wrote about the diverse levels of consciousness – involving reality and fantasy love and gentle motivation and darkness daydream and nightdream excellent verses evil struggle and power. The first music I wrote for the album was “Don’t Wake Me Up” and that was based on an true desire I had when I was a sophomore in college. The dream was so vivid that the details by no means escaped my thoughts and I was happy to ultimately make a property for it in the track. Key themes I would like listeners to get absent from this album is to discover your lifestyle boldly, dream huge, and go places you wouldn’t dare go simply because wonderful things will be found even if that detail is a lesson to be figured out. Do not be ashamed of oneself or your journey of advancement. Thrust back again and obstacles are unavoidable but you will never ever gain if you really don’t battle to gain. Appreciate you, appreciate your daily life: the excellent, the negative, the attractive, and the unattractive.
Who are some of your major musical inspirations?
I could go on and on about musical inspirations dependent on the several phases of my life so much, but my earliest memory of a musical inspiration arrives from Stevie Wonder when I was just an itty bitty. Then shifting by way of adolescence, teenager years, and young adulthood, I would say The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beethoven, Madonna, Chopin, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, Mariah Carey, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Nirvana, and Erykah Badu. At present, I am encouraged by so many musical artists! It is tough to title them all simply because there are so lots of outstanding artists out there creating the most unbelievable audio. Something from Lana Del Ray to Kacey Musgraves to Bruno Mars to Taylor Swift and over and above!
How did your time at Berklee condition your vocation now?
The associations that I cast at Berklee strongly influenced the onset of my career as a skilled keyboardist and backing singer. Certainly, the musical instruction produced my talent and repertoire knowledge as a singer and certain courses blossomed my capabilities as a writer and producer but it truly arrived down to the men and women I met. As the cliche declaring goes…it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Due to the fact of my close friends, I was encouraged to audition for specified jobs and excursions. The tour I am at this time on essentially arrived about due to the fact a single of my most effective good friends (who I met at Berklee) released me to a single of her childhood friends numerous yrs ago when I lived in LA. He is a drummer and played with me in my authentic tunes task. He released me to an unbelievable guitar participant, who has been touring with Vance Pleasure for a while. They necessary a person to fill this posture for North The us and he advisable me. The rest is history.
Who are some of your most loved artists suitable now? Any that you aspiration about collaborating with?
I really like The 1975 and Bruno Mars as very well as Lana Del Rey. I would love to do a collab with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson.
You are presently on tour with Vance Joy! Notify us about your practical experience so much, any stand out recollections or shows so significantly you can share with us?
I have very little but praise and like for the Vance Pleasure camp. I experience blessed to be in the situation I am in. I performed about 10 displays with Vance Joy back in Might/June and there were two distinct stand out times. The first was undertaking at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. I reside in Nashville now and The Ryman is a prestigious location. I experienced performed there right before as aspect of the opening act for Sufjan Stevens but this time it was diverse since I was component of the headlining band and it was offered out. I was equipped to have my daughter (who was 3 at the time) occur to audio examine and see/listen to what Mommy does for a dwelling. James (Vance Pleasure) gave her a Ryman Backpack and she was just swooning. The 2nd stand out minute was enjoying at The Budweiser Stage in Toronto (it applied to be called the Molson Amphitheatre). The location is specifically gorgeous simply because it sits on the h2o and you have to walk more than a bridge to get to it. The rain experienced been falling all working day, then right right before our exhibit the clouds parted and a wonderful rainbow cascaded throughout the sky. We snapped a band image then went on stage and played to a marketed out group of 16,000. The demonstrate was dwell streamed and there was these types of a magical electrical feeling in the air. I’m very confident you can nonetheless come across the reside stream on youtube.
What is upcoming for DANiiVORY as an artist?
I am advertising the album now and would like to start out taking part in are living exhibits in Nashville and around the East Coastline. I am also starting to perform on my up coming album.
Dreamland is undoubtedly a multi-genre album – how do you retain music in a overall body of work cohesive while even now retaining diversity in the sound?
I feel the cohesiveness will come from the consistency in generation and vocals. All the things was published and sung by me, which produces a consistency. I only worked with a person producer and was in my dwelling studio with him the complete time honing and shaping the seems for every song. Most of the instrumentation is played stay with serious devices and negligible VST devices.
What do you like to do when you are not building songs?
When I’m not producing new music, I am spending time with my daughter and my partner. Becoming a mother is a full time task in by itself! I also get pleasure from doing exercises (jogging, athletic conditioning, biking), watching historical drama shows and films, reading through inspirational books, arts and crafts, and Diy residence jobs.
To preserve up with DANiiVORY and her tour dates, locate her at www.daniivory.com.