New York, NY – 19th November 2021 – My Brightest Diamond is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her hauntingly beautiful song “I Have Never Loved Someone” with the release of a stunning new version recorded live in August 2019 during a performance in Denmark for the Queen with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and German conductor Andreas Delfs. It’s a breathtaking commemoration and is accompanied by the recently commissioned “Love Was There” featuring Vincent Taurelle (Air, Beck, Christine and The Queens) on synths and Lydia Cleaver from the famed Cass Tech Harp and Vocal Ensemble on harp. The new two-song single is out today via all DSPs, available HERE.
“I Have Never Loved Someone” was originally released in 2011 on My Brightest Diamond’s All Things Will Unwind LP and over the past decade has grown to be one of her most beloved songs. The release of the song was followed by a solo performance of the single for La Blogothèque in 2011, watch HERE, which has amassed more than 750K views and cemented the track’s legendary status. La Blogothèque director Christophe ‘Chyrde’ Abric emotionally recalled this “Take Away” performance today, “Over the years, I’ve produced literally thousands of videos, with hundreds of artists. And I know that only a few ones will survive everything in the fragile drawers of my failing memory. The one we recorded with Shara in Berlin is one of them. It’s been 10 years now since we filmed her, on a calm and hazy morning. Ten years since, in one take, in 4 minutes, she strung a special chord in our hearts that we didn’t know even existed, and is now here forever, ready to make us cry in seconds. I’m forever grateful for this, forever bound, by this moment, to the wonderful human being Shara is. And guess what? I’ve played the video to write those few lines, and I’m crying again.”
The release is the first new My Brightest Diamond music since two spring 2019 stand-alone singles “Quiet Loud” and “Dorian” were released. It also follows “Hutch,” a song featuring My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Nova, Sharon Van Etten and Lisa Hannigan that was one of the tracks on the August 27th LP How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? – produced by Aaron Dessner (The National) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). In addition, in November 2020 Nova contributed vocals and guitar to the single “Tapp” – which also features Justin Vernon and Mark McGee on synths – and is one of the singles from CARM’s self-titled debut album, released in January 2021. The new two-song single comes as Nova pivots her focus again to My Brightest Diamond, who will be looking to release more new music in 2022.
Shara Nova is a singer, songwriter, producer and composer who has released five albums under the moniker My Brightest Diamond. She has composed works for The Crossing, yMusic, Brooklyn Rider, Nadia Sirota, Cantus Domus, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Roomful of Teeth, Aarhus Symfoni, North Carolina Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, American Composers Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra among others. In 2019 she composed for over 600 musicians along with the Cincinnati Symphony a piece entitled Look Around with director Mark DeChiazza. Her baroque chamber p’opera You Us We All premiered in the US in October 2015 at BAM Next Wave Festival. With co-composer performer Helga Davis, Nova created a four-screen film entitled Ocean Body along with director Mark DeChiazza, that premiered at The Momentary in August 2021 and is currently showing at Wasserman Gallery in Detroit through December. Nova is a Kresge Arts fellow, a Carolina Performing Arts Creative Futures fellow, a Knights Grant recipient and a United States Artists fellow.
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