Franz Ferdinand performing at British Sound Project (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Alex Kapranos, of the Franz Ferdinand parish, has teamed up with Clara Luciani for a cover of the Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood song Summer Wine.
“Back in October, Clara asked me to join her on stage at the Olympia in Paris, where we first sang Summer Wine together,” Kapranos details. “We are both big fans of Lee and Nancy, and enjoyed the interaction that the song allows you. Clara translated the chorus into French, and the performance is bilingual, which really suits the song.”
“When the lockdown started, we decided to record it – more for ourselves than anything else. We wanted to create the atmosphere of an imaginary world away from the confinement we were experiencing. Not that we were unhappy, but the imagination is the greatest medium for escape and adventure. It was recorded at my place in Scotland and mixed by our friends Antoine and Pierre at Motorbass studio in Paris. When we played it to our labels they suggested we release it, so here it is.”
The track was recorded and mixed at both Kapranos’ studio in Scotland and the Philippe Zdar’s Motorbass Studio in Paris. It has a video directed by Ryder The Eagle.
