Clara Luciani: Last News

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos tells NME about his new duet with acclaimed French singer-songwriter Clara Luciana – a cover of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood‘s swooning classic ‘Summer Wine’.“It felt like a world that was very far removed from the one I was used to, stuck inside in lockdown rainy Scotland. It was a soundscape to a landscape that I wasn’t experiencing.”Lord knows we could all use a little bit of that at the moment.

Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos and Clara Luciani look set to debut their new collaboration this week.The two artists have been teasing their new project on social media in the past few days, with both uploading the same picture of the two of them together on Instagram on Saturday (July 25).Kapranos’ caption read “I will give to you Summer Wine”, while Luciani’s read the same but in French — hinting at the title of their first collaborative song release. I will give to you Summer Wine @jesuisclaralucianiA post shared by Alex Kapranos (@alkapranos) on Jul 25, 2020 at 9:00am PDTThe phrase is also a line in Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Summer Wine’, which was released in 1967.