Miel de Botton shares her new music video for her upcoming debut album’s title track ‘Magnetic’

 

Miel de Botton shares her new music video for her upcoming debut album’s title track ‘Magnetic’

 

 “The song "Magnetic" is incredibly important to me as it symbolises my heart felt feelings on how the world works, that we can truly attract the life we want if we are open; dare to dream and send out the thoughts and wishes one desires, to then in turn manifest them into our reality. We decided to film the music video in a place of pure natural beauty, we needed a location with real magnetism, natural caves, rocky mountains and rough, real terrain where the beauty of nature could provide a canvas for the energy of this song – we found the perfect combination of locations in Majorca. My video director Morten Schjolin and I wanted this video to be fluid, not too rigid, to allow the viewer to use their own imagination to feel the song and not be ‘told’ a structured narrative. I am delighted with the result and hope you all enjoy watching it.

With love, Miel x”

 

Miel de Botton

‘Magnetic’

 

Debut album release March 9th 2015

 

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“Music has always given me a sense of joy and freedom.  If you’d asked me as a child what my biggest dream was, it would have been to be a singer.  But it was a secret dream…..”

 

On this, her debut album, Swiss-born, London-based Miel de Botton presents a collection of deeply personal songs, in English and French, and breathes new life into her beloved chansons (Jacque Brel et al) with sensitive interpretations and innovative arrangements. Produced by Andy Wright (Simply Red, Eurythmics, Jeff Beck, Imelda May) at Abbey Road, South West Studios and State Of The Ark Studios, ‘Magnetic’ is presented on two discs and is the sensuous, exultant sound of a woman who is finally following her path; a woman just hitting her stride.

 

With coverage in the Evening Standard, You Magazine and The Telegraph, Miel’s music and story is starting to spread, and fast. Her first headline performance at Chelsea’s infamous The Pheasantry in November 2014 sold out, she was invited to be a special guest singing with the Jerusalem Youth Chorus at the Aldwych Theatre on their December UK Tour and played a special acoustic set at the Chelsea & WestminsterHospital as part of their healing arts programme. Miel will return to the stage on January 27th when she performs a sold out show at The Purcell Room on London’s Southbank. Promising an evening that will take the audience on a trip of passion, sensuality and romance, Miel will also be joined by some very special guests from the worlds of dance and music.

 

Miel (me-el ‘from God’ in Hebrew, ‘Honey’ in French) de Botton was born in Zurich, daughter of financier and art collector Gilbert, sister of writer and philosopher Alain.  Her father, a dynamic, demanding perfectionist, expected excellence from his children.  It was only when he sang to them that he softened and it was through those moments that Miel fell in love with chansons. “The songs transported me to an era of wild romance. I could feel the intensity of love, but also its tragic inconstancy, and I wanted to abandon myself to that music.”

 

Dutifully, in her father’s vision, she studied law at Oxford, but Miel wanted to become a psychologist and after qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist at the Ecole de Psychologues Practiciens she practiced for six years in drug addiction centres in Paris. Miel welcomed the challenges of this vocation and found it rewarding saying “psychology taught me to connect deeply with people, to turn emotion into a positive force for transformation. That is what I aim to do when I sing, to share human emotion, to make us feel connected.  I aim for the music to have a soothing, healing effect.”

 

On her move to London and her father’s death, with a one-year old son and much of her father’s estate issues to look after, she took a break.  Then, five years ago and another child later, her marriage fell apart.  However, within the pain there emerged a new found independence that set her voice free.  Suddenly doors opened that led her to meeting record producer, Andy Wright. Miel says, “He really gets me.  We have these amazing moments when I give him my songs and he sits at the piano and starts the chord arrangements, and every time I cry, because what comes out is magical.”

 

The album was a tear- and yet joy-filled journey of self-deliverance. Miel is asking to be magnetic….to draw you in closer…. The overall sound of the album’s tracks is mellifluous, harmonious, yet the songs are very different in style. 

 

‘Ne me Quitte Pas’ is a sensuous bolero and Piaf’s ‘Non, Je ne Regrette Rien’ here gets a reggae interpretation Piaf would probably love.  It is a joyful, upbeat version that means what it says.  The swirling arrangements of ‘La Java Bleue’, ‘Mon Amant de St. Jean’ and ‘Mon Manège à Moi’ take us with Miel on a journey of surrender to love.  She says, “when I sing my songs, I often see myself skipping down the cobbled streets of Paris, the feeling is one of lightness.”

 

Miel is clearly a woman who loves passionately and she expresses this in her songs; she dreams of a kiss from a stranger in her “dark nights” in Embrasse Moi’. The charming acoustic ’Vivement la Joie’ is a burst of carefree happiness, Miel sounding like a footloose Vanessa Paradis.  “It’s a poem I wrote to cheer myself up – a tiny ode to joy!”

 

An excruciatingly painful love story becomes ‘Beautiful You’ (“Don’t tell me that it was only a lie/I know what I saw…”), and that lost desire is also expressed in ‘Something More’. Despite all this unrequited longing, she is full of hope that things will turn out well and she believes her songs are about finding a way to heal from past pain.  ‘Forest Prayer’ and ‘Dazzle Me Diamond’ are heart reaching songs about sensuality and love and the joy to be found in our lives. ‘Dazzle Me Diamond’ really is about diamonds – but this synth-heavy track is mystical too, expressing a longing to be in the presence of their strength, clarity and purity. “I need your rainbow lights to reach the dark corners of my mind.”

 

The majestically bare, Morricone-esque mantra ‘Bad Men’ is many a woman’s rallying cry, slowly stripping layers off those debonair men who talk about forever but can’t seem to follow through. This honest song explores the pain and pathos that underlies such relationships.  With her title song, ‘Magnetic’, she talks of making her “voice become audible”, of not being “left to lie in the dark”.  This is an epic ballad, almost a desiderata, in which she asks to be attracted magnetically to a beautiful life.

 

Mixing maturity and youth, this is a woman flexing her muscles, making life make sense. As she says, “I’m experiencing a depth of fulfilment I have never known.” 

 

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February 19, 2015 11:50am ET by Republic Media   Comments (0)

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