I can still remember the day that La Blogotheque shared their Take Away Show with Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) in 2011. It was filmed on a Sunday morning in Berlin, during the MichelBerger Mystery Music Festival at a hotel bar/cafe (we originally shared it here). It really was one of the most beautiful and moving performances I’d seen her perform.
The song she sang “I Have Never Loved Someone” was a lullaby written for her son. As you can hear below, those lyrics pack a powerful punch and you can see why emotions ran high during and after the performance. This particular session has helped cement it as one of Shara’s most beloved songs and the 750K views for this video have helped get it there.
La Blogothèque director Christophe ‘Chyrde’ Abric emotionally recalled this “Take Away” performance today, “Over the years, I’ve produced literally thousands of videos, with hundreds of artists. And I know that only a few ones will survive everything in the fragile drawers of my failing memory. The one we recorded with Shara in Berlin is one of them. It’s been 10 years now since we filmed her, on a calm and hazy morning. Ten years since, in one take, in 4 minutes, she strung a special chord in our hearts that we didn’t know even existed, and is now here forever, ready to make us cry in seconds. I’m forever grateful for this, forever bound, by this moment, to the wonderful human being Shara is. And guess what? I’ve played the video to write those few lines, and I’m crying again.”
In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of her song “I Have Never Loved Someone” My Brightest Diamond is releasing a new version recorded live in August 2019 during a performance in Denmark with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and German conductor Andreas Delfs. It is accompanied by the recently commissioned “Love Was There” featuring Vincent Taurelle (Air, Beck, Christine and The Queens) on synths and Lydia Cleaver from the famed Cass Tech Harp and Vocal Ensemble on harp. The new two-song single is out today via all DSPs, available HERE.