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Daria Mirea Shares New Single ‘Before It Gets Dark’
Hailing from Romania, Daria Mirea caught national attention on the hit music competition show, The Voice of Romania, in 2018. Currently based in the UK, the singer-songwriter began her songwriting journey in 2020, before taking up guitar and attending London Music School, where she immersed herself in the world of crafting melodies that speak to the heart.
Daria Mirea returns with the release of her highly anticipated single ‘Before It Gets Dark’. She is currently channeling her creative energies into even more vulnerable, delicate, and honest compositions, with her second single.
‘Before It Gets Dark’ showcases Daria Mirea’s raw vocals in a dreamy manner to create a distinctive and captivating sound. The pop offering embraces the emotions of feeling sad and hopeful at the same time while transporting listeners into a realm of enchanting soundscapes.
The song embodies the wish to be a companion on people’s journeys of healing and development with its potent lyrics and poignant instrumentation on the catchy melody. The pop track features acoustic guitar, piano, violins, drums, bass, and electric guitar, along with Daria Mirea’s delicate vocals.
The majority of ‘Before It Gets Dark’ was composed on a chilly September evening as Daria Mirea thought back to the balmy evenings of the recently gone summer. She then worked with two amazing producers, Romanian-based Andrei Horjea and London-based Jules Konieczny, to create a track with an organic feel and production that matched her vision for the song: to support individuals on their journeys of growth and healing.
On the song, Daria Mirea comments, “From the intimacy of a warm summer evening to an ultimately withered September, ‘Before It Gets Dark’ details the intricate journey of coming to terms with heartbreak, encapsulating feelings of hopefulness, longing, and despair, all the way to acceptance. It evokes the universal truth that humans chase fleeting dreams, even though these can leave us in the dark if they don’t reach fulfillment. This song was my companion in my own journey of healing and growth, and I can only hope it will do the same for anyone in need, as I believe it is through accepting vulnerability and becoming more in touch with our feelings that we gain strength.”
Accumulating press coverage across the likes of Clout, Fame Magazine, and Send Me Your Ears, and support from local radio stations, Daria Mirea has presented herself as an exciting musical talent with a lot of promise for the future. ‘Before It Gets Dark’ was recently featured on BBC Introducing Essex and Cambridgeshire as track of the week.
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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