From an attic overlooking Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol (UK), Dora Lachaise produces dark, otherworldly music. After her Danny Elfman-esque debut single Bone Collector, which was picked up by BBC Bristol and Amazing Radio USA, Lachaise dives into electronica for her second single ‘I Confess.’
The song was inspired by a statue of the saint Mary Magdalene, generally portrayed as a ‘fallen woman’ with a wild past. That story isn’t true, but it was used as a warning for girls and women to listen to their fathers and husbands. In ‘I Confess’, Lachaise sets the record straight by retelling the story from Mary’s perspective.
The video itself pays homage to another woman – the Surrealist photographer Dora Maar. While we remember the men from the Surrealist movement – Dalí, Magritte, Picasso – the women have largely been forgotten, unless they were their ‘muses.’ Unjustly so – Maar was an artist in her own right, and made thought-provoking photomontages, which inspired the music video for ‘I Confess.’
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