Michael Ciravolo & Wayne Hussey.- Photo by Kevin Estrada
Los Angeles-based alternative rock collective Beauty In Chaos presents their latest track, Diving For Pearls, featuring the legendary Wayne Hussey of The Mission and the enchanting vocals of his wife, Cinthya Hussey, partners in Archeometre.
This marks the first taste of the upcoming album from the ever-evolving ensemble that is Beauty In Chaos, conjured into being by guitar virtuoso Michael Ciravolo in 2018. The album, titled Dancing With Angels, is set to flutter its way into the world on July 24. Ciravolo, the band’s leader and curator, describes the new track as “a torrid earworm with lots of swirling layers,” promising a playful plunge into musical delight.
This is the fourth song Wayne Hussey has fronted with Beauty In Chaos, one that Ciravolo feels “may just be the best we’ve written together,” despite Hussey’s bout with writer’s block.
“When Michael first sent me the music track, I was on tour with The Mission,” Hussey recalls. “I had a few listens and thought, yes, this is good, I can find something to sing to this easy enough. And then nothing. For months, I’d listen, and I would come up with melodies aplenty, but no words. More time passed and Michael would ask how I was getting on and each time I’d reply, “I’ve got vocal melodies but no lyrics, absolutely nothing is coming”. I must confess that I was getting worried that I’d never be able to write another song – ever…I was raking over all my old lyric notebooks and various word documents on old hard drives and still nada….I was bemoaning my situation to Cinthya one evening and she suggested I write about a personal situation I’d found myself in a few years back. I got my mind focused in the right direction, and while in the studio singing along to the track, I soon got the first line, with the rest following fairly easily…and quickly. It was a huge relief to have the elusive muse visit me again. I played it to Cin and she suggested a couple of small changes and voila, here you have it! I won’t explain what or who the song is about, there’s no need for that, I’ll just leave the listener to make up their own mind, and take from it what they will.”
Ciravolo scoffs affectionately at Hussey’s verbose recollection: “I think he has told me that every time I have sent him music! He cries wolf of ‘no words’, yet he proceeds to one-up our preceding song … which was damn good in my slightly biased opinion. The man is a genuine poet!”
“When I first heard the instrumental track for this song I immediately fell in love with Michael’s guitars,” says Cinthya Hussey. “It’s the kind of song that embraces you… and I could listen to it all day long. Wayne was a bit stuck for ideas so I threw an idea at him that was relevant and would be good to get out of his system… And off he went… majestically so! This is probably one of my favourite Beauty In Chaos songs!”
“Diving for Pearls” glimmers as an iridescent alternative rock ode to lost love. The bittersweet vocal harmonies of Wayne and Cynthia Hussey, combined with Michael Ciravolo’s heartfelt guitar riff, evoke emotions pulled from the depths of the heart.
The song’s mesmerizing video showcases a brilliantly psychedelic performance, expertly crafted and directed by the visionary Vicente Cordero of Industrialism Films. This visual siren’s call enchants and enthralls, offering a kaleidoscopic spectacle that dances and dazzles the senses, evoking the feeling of being shot on the ocean floor.
Watch the video for “Diving for Pearls” below:
This ‘single version’ was skillfully mixed by the illustrious Tim Palmer, whose alchemical touch has graced the works of The Cure, U2, David Bowie, Robert Plant, HIM, and The Mission, among many other luminaries. “I have been fortunate once again to mix Beauty In Chaos’ latest offering and it’s a beauty! But beware, you can’t just hear it once as it will stay with you all day,” says Palmer. With a twinkle of mischief and melody, his words perfectly capture the enchanting essence of the track.
About the new album Dancing With Angels, Ciravolo divulges that several BIC alumni will return, along with some new members of the growing ‘BIC Family, while offering an open-ended description of the new album.
“Diving For Pearls” is available a limited edition CD single and also digitally everywhere via 33.3 Music Collective. The Dancing With Angels album, set for release on July 24, can be pre-ordered directly from the Beauty In Chaos store.
Watch Wayne Hussey’s previous work with Beauty in Chaos below:
“The Long Goodbye”
‘The Delicate Balance of All Things”
‘The Delicate Balance of All Things’ ft. Cinthya Hussey (Tim Palmer Remix)
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